We are pleased to share that Wickr has been acquired by Amazon and is now part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team. We’re proud to have created highly trusted, secure communication solutions for messaging, video conferencing, file sharing, and more. From our founding ten years ago, we have grown to serve organizations across a wide range of industries, all over the world. Together with AWS, we look forward to taking our solutions to the next level for our customers and partners. Learn more here →
Trust is the pivotal building block of the attorney-client relationship. This critical relationship requires the exchange and divulgence of confidential or privileged information— from trade secrets and IP to strategy and high-value financial and personal documents. Unless this confidentiality is truly protected by effective security measures, clients cannot trust their
Last week, a security-related flaw in Electron, a popular software framework, hit the news. Chris Howell, Wickr CTO February 1, 2018 This was particularly painful as Electron, an application development framework that allows you to build cross-platform desktop GUI applications with web technologies, grew very popular very quickly. Many popular
Imagine a team detecting the signs of a data breach within a global network, or a multinational company launching a new product in a hostile new market.
Traditional methods of protecting valuable business and personal data are an arms race with no winners. It is time for a new strategy & platforms that enable data minimization and ensure that service providers & adversaries are kept out.
Encrypted calling is coming to millions of Wickr Me users, along with private voice messages next to be followed by screenshot detection for iOS and Android across all apps. Today, we’re making it easy to use strong vetted encryption and ephemerality for anyone — for personal or business conversations, so there is no more reason to jump to insecure apps to make a phone call or leave a message.
Wickr announces our Customer Security Promises program designed to offer utmost transparency about how we build and test the platform against key security promises we make to our users. With that, we aim to provide customers with the ability to assess our performance towards the security and privacy standards that form the foundations of trust.
The relationship between an attorney and a client is unique — rooted in the premise that confidences and counsel passed between them is privileged, off-limits to anyone but client and counselor. Today, privacy is difficult to achieve for individuals or businesses handling sensitive client information. With communications between practitioners of
While there is no privacy silver bullet, transparency around capturing messages enables trust and helps set privacy expectations between you and your contacts.
There is no denying the natural tendency of lawyers to hoard information. Whether our own or others’ – everything worth writing down at some point is worth keeping, just in case. But there is also an undeniable pull now towards a cleaner data footprint that is being felt within the
Users on Wickr Pro can now securely connect, video conference, and share files with other companies and teams including Wickr Me users. I am excited to announce the launch of Wickr secure communication channels that allow individuals, small independent teams and enterprises to connect across the entire Wickr ecosystem, including
One of the best things about my job is experiencing first-hand how the secure ephemeral communication technology we build helps customers across industries and governments solve critical problems that they face daily. Whether it’s a law firm communicating on an M&A transaction, a media company protecting high-value client assets, or
WICKR ANNOUNCES ENCRYPTED GROUP CALLING, VIDEO CONFERENCING & FEDERATION FOR WICKR PRO USERSJoel Wallenstrom July 13, 2017 Today, we are releasing our beta end-to-end encrypted calling and video conferencing for select Wickr Pro Networks. This is a significant step forward for secure collaboration among teams sharing valuable information and making