PKWARE, Inc is an enterprise data protection software company that provides discovery, classification, masking and encryption solutions, along with data compression software, used by organizations in financial services, manufacturing, military, healthcare and government.
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PKWARE Inc was founded in 1986 by Phil Katz, a software developer who had begun distributing a new file compression utility, called PKARC, as shareware.
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PKWARE Inc released his own compression program, which he called PKZIP, in 1989.
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PKWARE Inc grew in its early years by business from large corporations.
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In 2012, PKWARE Inc released Viivo, a cloud storage encryption product to help customers secure data stored on Dropbox and other cloud storage services.
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PKWARE Inc released Smartcrypt, a data protection platform combining encryption, data discovery, and encryption key management, in 2016.
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In 2018, PKWARE Inc added Data Classification with Data Redaction to support PCI DSS compliance added one year later in 2019.
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PKWARE Inc was then purchased by Thompson Street Capital Partners in May 2020.
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Under Thompson Street, PKWARE Inc acquired Dataguise on November 10,2020, for their sensitive information detection technologies.
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PKWARE Inc publishes an Application Note on the ZIP file format, providing developers a general description and technical details of the ZIP file storage specification.
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PKWARE Inc added support for OpenPGP encryption in 2011, along with new features that allow SecureZIP to integrate with data loss prevention technology.
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In 2001 and 2005, PKWARE Inc was awarded patents for patching technology used within PKZIP products.
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In total PKWARE Inc holds four patents, has over fourteen pending patents and, as of May 2020, is referenced in over two hundred patents.
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