StrikeForce Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB:SFOR), is a 21-year-old cybersecurity firm focused on proactive solutions for consumers, small to midsize businesses (SMBs), and enterprise companies. The company has renamed itself Zerify to emphasize the importance of its secure video conferencing platform. The company’s video platform is the first and only one to be built with cyber security as a main corporate goal.
The change to the name Zerify underlines the company’s objective to provide Zero-Trust for the most secure collaborative interactions, as well as the fact that each participant is confirmed and verified before entering a video conference to ensure safety.
Zerify created a web-based video conferencing system that does not require a desktop client. The system provides a five-level security control approach to protect sensitive information. To keep enterprises secure, features like keystroke protection, anti-screen capture, push, and biometric authentication are available.
Cameras, microphones, and speakers are also protected by the system, which keeps PCs and confidential data safe even when not connected to a video conference. These protections are not available with any other video conferencing service on the market, including Zoom, Webex, LogMeIn, MS Teams, or BlueJeans.
StrikeForce, now Zerify, developed what was previously known as SafeVChat, and will now be called Zerify Meet, as a pandemic-era panacea for employees conducting video conferences from remote locations, and was listed in Forrester’s Now Tech: Secure Communications, Q2, 2022 report as one of the top 25 platforms — and notably, the only video conferencing platform included in the report.
As a result of the movement from in-office communications to work-from-home and hybrid models, proprietary data protection became a growing problem, which the company rapidly addressed.
“Covid introduced hackers to videoconferencing platforms as companies became reliant on this technology to discuss highly proprietary information,” explained Mark L. Kay, CEO of Zerify. “Financial and healthcare matters, legal information, military secrets, and other critically private data must be protected across industries.
Industry analyst firm AITE Novarica, in partnership with Zerify, described the five levels of security prioritizing in a research-driven whitepaper. Each classification level is linked to widely-known control frameworks (PCI, HIPAA, NIST, CISA, GDPR), as well as an organization’s own rules, regulations, and guidelines for sensitive data security.
To assure data security through collaborative interactions, Zerify developed three distinct products:
- Zerify Meet – is the industry’s first and only zero-trust video conferencing platform, requiring users to verify before attending a conference.
- Zerify Defender — Prevents screen scraping malware by locking down one’s desktop camera, microphone, speakers, keyboard, and clipboard. It safeguards all video conferencing services, including Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex (formerly known as PrivacyLokTM).
- Zerify API — Allows companies of any size to incorporate secure video conferencing into a variety of applications: CRM, EPRs, and legacy apps are all examples of legacy applications.
The rebrand marks the next step in StrikeForce’s evolution as a 21-year-old cybersecurity firm with multiple patents, which is now known as Zerify. Recognizing the security risks connected with video conferencing, as well as the rise in collaborative communications as remote work becomes more common, the company has decided to focus solely on secure video conferencing for the time being.
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