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2022

Kiteworks Achieves IRAP Assessed to Protected Level Controls

Retirement of compromised FTA product was achieved in full for all Australian and New Zealand clients in 2020-21. Kiteworks IRAP assessment to PROTECTED level controls demonstrates the company’s commitment to clients in the Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) market.

Sydney, Australia, March 8, 2022 – Kiteworks, the leading platform for ensuring regulatory compliance and effectively managing risk with every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, announced today it completed and achieved compliance with the Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessed for up...

Kiteworks Makes Key Hires, Including EMEA VP of Sales Andreas Deliandreadis

LONDON, U.K., February 1, 2022 – Kiteworks, the leading platform for ensuring regulatory compliance and effectively managing risk with every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, has appointed Andreas Deliandreadis as its new Vice President of Sales for EMEA. With more than 20...

Kiteworks Protects Employee and Contractor PHI; Enables Compliance With HIPAA and Vaccine Mandates

| San Mateo, CA

Kiteworks, the leading platform for ensuring regulatory compliance and effectively managing risk with every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, announced today that customers can use Kiteworks for uploading, sharing, and storing vaccine-related protected health information (PHI) for employees, contractors, visitors, students, and...

Kiteworks Acquires Email Encryption Leader totemo

Further Closes Intelligence Gap Inhibiting Companies from Tracking and Controlling Private Content Communications

Palo Alto, Calif., January 11, 2022 – Kiteworks, which governs and protects sensitive digital content moving within, into, and out of global enterprises, announced today its acquisition of totemo, the leading email encryption gateway provider used by hundreds of the largest multinational enterprises in the...

2021

Log4Shell: What Kiteworks Customers Need to Know About the Vulnerability

In follow-up to our recent alerts to Kiteworks customers, three vulnerabilities to Apache Log4j Java-based open-source logging library have been discovered. These vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046, CVE-2021-45105) are collectively being referred to as Log4Shell or LogJam. Similar to past exploits like Shellshock or Heartbleed, Log4Shell is a...

Kiteworks Delivers the Most Comprehensive Managed File Transfer Security & Compliance Capabilities on the Market

Provides Robust Defense-in-Depth Security While Streamlining Compliance Audits and Reporting

Palo Alto, Calif., November 11, 2021 – Kiteworks, the leading platform for ensuring regulatory compliance and effectively managing risk with every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, announced today the availability of comprehensive managed file transfer (MFT) governance, compliance, and security capabilities in...

Accellion FTA Customers Migrate to Kiteworks® to Protect Their Most Sensitive Data

Approximately 75% of FTA Customers Have So Far Migrated to Kiteworks

| Palo Alto, CA

Accellion, Inc., provider of Kiteworks, the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today announced approximately 75% of FTA customers impacted by the zero-day vulnerabilities in December 2020 and January 2021, have so far migrated from Accellion’s legacy product to the Kiteworks content firewall. The majority of Accellion’s...

Mandiant Issues Final Report Regarding Accellion FTA Attack

Mandiant validates full remediation of all known security vulnerabilities in the FTA product

| Palo Alto, CA

Accellion, Inc., provider of Kiteworks, the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today issued a statement with regards to the previously reported cyberattacks on Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance (“FTA”) product. As previously disclosed, Accellion engaged FireEye Mandiant, a leading cybersecurity forensics firm, to conduct an investigation...

Accellion Provides Update to FTA Security Incident Following Mandiant’s Preliminary Findings

Mandiant Identifies Criminal Threat Actor and Mode of Attacks

| Palo Alto, CA

Accellion, Inc., provider of the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today issued a statement regarding Mandiant’s preliminary findings with regards to the previously reported cyberattacks on Accellion’s legacy FTA product. Mandiant, a division of FireEye, Inc., has identified UNC2546 as the criminal hacker behind the cyberattacks...

Accellion Provides Update to Recent FTA Security Incident

All Known Vulnerabilities Closed and Migration Efforts Continue

| Palo Alto, CA

Accellion, Inc., provider of the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today issued an update on the recently reported security incident regarding FTA, Accellion’s legacy large file transfer product. Accellion FTA, a 20 year old product nearing end-of life, was the target of a sophisticated cyberattack. All...

Accellion Responds to Recent FTA Security Incident

Patch Released in 72 Hours with Minimal Impact

| Palo Alto, CA

Accellion, Inc., provider of the industry’s first enterprise content firewall, today issued a statement about a recently reported security incident regarding one of its legacy products. In mid-December, Accellion was made aware of a P0 vulnerability in its legacy File Transfer Appliance (FTA) software. Accellion FTA...

2020

Kiteworks Welcomes Rhonda White to Its Board of Directors

Adds award-winning CMO and Business Leader and expert in category development, brand and growth strategies, and go-to-market transformation

Palo Alto, Calif., Oct 26, 2020 – Kiteworks, the leading platform for ensuring regulatory compliance and effectively managing risk with every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, announced the addition of Rhonda White as an independent director on the Kiteworks Board. “We are...

Accellion and OPSWAT Partnership Combines the Industry’s First Enterprise Content Firewall with Best-in-Class Threat Prevention

Joint Solution Prevents Data Breaches and Protects Critical Infrastructure from Risky 3rd Party Communications

| Palo Alto, CA

Accellion, Inc., provider of the industry’s first enterprise content firewall and OPSWAT, a leader in critical infrastructure protection, today announced a partnership to secure third party communications from malware and sensitive data breaches. Every day businesses contend with phishing attacks that introduce malware and Zero-day exploits to...

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