Digital Guardian Named a 2017 Red Herring Top 100 Company in North America

WALTHAM, Mass.—June 22, 2017— Digital Guardian, a next generation data protection platform purpose built to stop data theft, announced today that it has been selected as a winner of the 2017 Red Herring Top 100 companies in North America, a prestigious award recognizing exciting and innovative private technology companies.

“We’re thrilled to be honored as a 2017 Red Herring Top 100 winner,” said Connie Stack, chief marketing officer, Digital Guardian. “This recognition demonstrates our dedication to developing innovative data protection solutions and the incredible rate we’ve grown over the past three years. We expect this momentum to continue as the demand for next generation data protection increases across the globe.”

Digital Guardian products and solutions take a data-centric approach to protecting an organization from insider and outsider threats. With deep data visibility, real-time analytics and flexible controls, Digital Guardian’s data protection platform stops malicious data theft and prevents inadvertent data loss. The DG Platform performs across corporate networks, traditional endpoints, mobile devices and cloud applications to make it easier to see and stop all threats to sensitive data.

“2017’s crop of Top 100 winners has been among our most intriguing yet,” said Alex Vieux, publisher and chairman of Red Herring. “North America has led the way in tech for so many years, and to see such unique, pioneering entrepreneurs and companies here in California, which is in many ways the heartland of the industry, has been a thrilling experience. What has excited me most is to see so many people forging niches in high-tech and cutting edge sectors. Some of the technical wizardry and first-rate business models showcased here at the conference has been fantastic to learn about. We believe Digital Guardian embodies the drive, skill and passion on which tech thrives. Digital Guardian should be proud of its achievement - the competition was incredibly strong.”

This list showcases the cutting edge of North America’s world-class technology industry–and demonstrate the region’s continued reputation for digital excellence. Winners are selected from thousands of prospective companies ranging from fintech and IoT to robotics, security and clean technology. Red Herring judges applicants on more than 20 criteria to analyze the companies on qualifications such as technological advances, social contributions, growth rate and industry recognitions.

About Digital Guardian

Digital Guardian is a next generation data protection platform designed to stop data theft. The Digital Guardian platform performs across the corporate network, traditional endpoints, mobile devices and cloud applications to make it easier to see and stop all threats to sensitive data. For more than 10 years, it has enabled data-rich organizations to protect their most valuable assets with an on premise deployment or an outsourced managed security program (MSP). Digital Guardian’s unique data awareness and transformative endpoint visibility, combined with behavioral threat detection and response, enables you to protect data without slowing the pace of your business. To learn more please visit: https://www.digitalguardian.com/.

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company which unites the world's best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider's access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.