Extenua and ImageWare Launch Cloud2Drive on AWS

xtenua, Inc. and ImageWare Systems, Inc. announced that their strategic partnership has gone live on Amazon Web Services.

Several U.S. federal agencies and American systems corporation have signed up as initial users of the joint product.

GoVerifyID

The partnership was formed to combine Extenua’s Cloud2Drive storage product with ImageWare’s patented mobile, multi-modal biometric GoVerifyID product. Cloud2Drive client software coupled with GoVerifyID puts cloud storage to work with the virtual drive cluster file system, SAFE AI. This includes hardened encryption system and ImageWare’s mobile application that provides out-of-band biometric authentication from any mobile device. Together, they create the first and only end-to-end secure cloud storage platform for office and mobile devices.

“Extenua’s Cloud2Drive makes shared cloud storage secure, easily accessible and simple to deploy, regardless of the enterprise’s existing cloud storage provider,” said Steve Visconti, CEO, Extenua Inc. “Security is a challenge for enterprises, both large and small, and many would like to take advantage of a productive and secure cloud storage solution for their mobile workforce. We now offer the best encryption techniques and multi-modal biometric identity management software to address this challenge and provide an unprecedented level of security to companies utilizing cloud storage, whether it is public, private, or hybrid.“

“Cloud2Drive, with integrated out-of-band biometric identification, represents a new level of highly secure platforms required for today’s cloud and on-premise storage networks,” said Tom Suder, president, Mobilegov, Inc. “Combining Cloud2Drive and ImageWare GoVerifyID into a single platform plays an important role in countering threats to our cyber networks.“

Cloud2Drive has been designed from the ground up to provide enterprises
controlled, secure and access solution for their cloud data
by delivering critical, high-value features, including:

• Cloud2Drive allows users to see and use their cloud storage like it’s a local HDD drive, for quick learnability. With an set up wizard, users can access cloud storage in minutes. Cloud2Drive runs on most Windows platforms, such as Android, iOS, Linux, and MAC OSX. It can also manage the complexities that arise with most back-end multi-cloud support structures offered from cloud vendors, such as Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Fujitsu GCP/LCP, IBM Softlayer, Rackspace, WebDAV, SFTP, and many others.

• Administrators can aggregate multiple cloud services in the back-end and present them as one virtual drive or many virtual drives to the user’s device. Aggregated cloud services offers maximum flexibility and can deliver more capacity, mirrored RAID-1 type HA and fault-tolerance, or as a migration tool from one cloud vendor to the next without interruption of service.

• Cloud2Drive is 100% enterprise ready. It allows multiple users to access the same files and can prevent multiple users from accidentally corrupting a file if they access it at the same time.

• Cloud2Drive uses the most accurate artificial intelligence in order to predict what files a user will need, then it caches and encrypts these files locally so the user can work offline.

• Local encryption, independent of the cloud provider, is a crucial feature of strong security. The administrator controls the encryption key, so not even the cloud provider can access the organization’s data. This control exceeds HIPAA and PCI compliance standards.

• Cloud2Drive is flexible and allows online access, anywhere, without the need for creating VPNs, gateways, or other bottlenecks that can be a single point of failure. This is for public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions.

ImageWare’s out-of-band biometric authentication product, GoVerifyID, delivers patented, advanced fraud-prevention capabilities to organizations. Biometric authentication, which includes voice, eye, signature, fingerprint and facial recognition, provides an additional layer of security and fraud defense to enterprise cloud storage users.

“Cloud2Drive is already a ‘best-in-class’ cloud storage product, and the addition of GoVerifyID and multi modal biometrics has now made it even better by adding both security and ease of use features,” said Jim Miller, chairman and CEO, ImageWare. “We are pleased to partner with Extenua to make biometric authentication available to the cloud storage market. Together, we provide the most advanced level of data security the industry has been looking for.“