Authentic8: Delivering elegant and practical solutions that solve customers’ problems

The browser has become the primary app for key enterprise workflows; it's also obliterated the security perimeter. While IT still has the responsibility to secure enterprise assets, they don’t have the tools to enforce, regulate and monitor users’ activity online. With Authentic8, they do. The company's patented platform does more than simple isolation: it allows customers to shift their critical workflows to a secure cloud environment that they control. It’s not about a few features or a set of widgets. Authentic8 gives companies a way to make full use of the web without fear, and enforce policy controls that comply with even the strictest industry requirements.

Founded by the principals from Postini (acquired by Google in 2007), Authentic8 builds elegant solutions that embrace the advantage of a distributed workforce while providing the highest levels of IT security and governance. Authentic8's solutions are born from meaningful conversations with its customers — major enterprises and government agencies — about the problems they face in taking full advantage of the web while mitigating their risk.

Authentic8 believes that anyone, anywhere, on any device should experience the web without risk. It empowers organizations to provide their users with open access to all online resources, without increasing their liability or giving up control.

Seamless Deployment

Authentic8's cloud-based solution deploys in seconds — whether it's for a single user or thousands. Silo doesn’t require infrastructure investment; its ability to easily scale lets IT focus on solving business problems, not managing procurement. And Silo can be used as a standalone native app, integrated with a browser or incorporated into any workflow using APIs, allowing IT to define a specific experience for users.

Unlike more traditional security solutions that require synchronizing software across endpoints, integrating with network infrastructure and piping disaggregated logs into a unified system, Silo lets you deploy across your user population with a click of a button. Silo can scale up and down as your needs change, allowing you to deliver the right solutions for your users at the right time.

"Authentic8 believes that anyone, anywhere, on any device should experience the web without risk."

Authetic8 Silo

For any web user, malware is just a click away. But investigators relying on the web for data sources are at an increased risks. Digital clues to who they are and their line of work — law enforcement, trust and safety, cybersecurity intelligence — are leaked by browsers to the sites they visit, which could make them or their organization a target.

Authentic8’s solution for online investigations changes the game. It eliminates the cyber risks of engaging with websites, forums and marketplaces. And it empowers investigators to manage and protect their identity and intent, while providing them with purpose-built collection and analysis tools.

Authentic8's Silo meets the needs of the most regulated organizations in the world, from federal agencies to Swiss banks to healthcare providers. All data is encrypted and protected to the highest standards. And Authentic8 undergoes regular third-party audits and assessments to remain compliant with FedRAMP, PCI, HIPAA, SOC2 and more global standards.

Silo can work great for research too. Secure and anonymous online investigations Conduct investigations on the open, deep or dark web safely and efficiently with Silo for Research (Toolbox). Silo gives users an on-demand, highly secure and anonymous environment to conduct research, collect evidence and analyze data.

Teams accomplish their goals without introducing risk to the organization. All analyst activity is logged and encrypted so compliance teams can be sure the tools are being used appropriately.

• Manage attribution to anonymize identity and intent
• Isolate research from the analyst’s device and historic web activity
• Improve efficiency with purpose-built tools and third party integrations to match unique workflows

Platform security is an intrinsic value at Authentic8. Whether pursuing its own compliance with global security standards like NIST and ISO, meeting specific industry requirements or delivering a solution to help our customers meet their compliance requirements, Silo is built from the ground up with information security in mind. With Silo, you control how much customer-identifying information is stored in the system. Silo encrypts log data with keys managed by the customer, and it provides APIs to extract and pipe data into third-party analysis tools. The company also provides APIs to extract data should you decide to stop using the service. 

"Authentic8’s solution for online investigations changes the game."

About the Leader

Ramesh Rajagopal, Co-founder and CEO

Ramesh is co-founder and CEO of Authentic8. Prior to this leadership role, he was VP Corporate Development at Postini running all strategic planning and business development leading up to the acquisition of the company by Google in 2007 for $625 million.

Before Postini, Ramesh was Senior Director of the Corporate Strategy Group at Microsoft, where he co-led a team in identifying and evaluating new growth opportunities for the company in areas including consumer web services, business applications and security.

In his time before Microsoft, Ramesh worked at JP Morgan in both the investment banking and capital markets groups. He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Cambridge.