Amazon Web Services acquires encrypted chat company Wickr

  • Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Web Services has acquired encrypted chat company Wickr for undisclosed terms.
  • "We're excited to share that AWS has acquired Wickr, an innovative company that has developed the industry's most secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology. With Wickr, customers and partners benefit from advanced security features not available with traditional communications services - across messaging, voice and video calling, file sharing, and collaboration. This gives security conscious enterprises and government agencies the ability to implement important governance and security controls to help them meet their compliance requirements," says Stephen Schmidt, Chief Information Security Officer, AWS.
  • AWS is now offering Wickr services and Wickr's existing customers and channel and business partners can continue to use the service as normal.

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