LandStar Announces Data443 Signed Letter of Intent to Acquire All Assets of Araloc

LandStar, Inc., the parent company of Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc., a data security and privacy company, announced that the company has completed the letter of intent to acquire all technology, sales assets, and customers of Modevity, LLC’s enterprise cloud-based storage, protection, and workflow automation platform, ARALOC. 

The combined operations of the ARALOC platform provided (unaudited) EBIT contribution of approximately $500,000 in 2017.

Acquisition will to close before end of 3Q18.

High EBIT percentage contributions are enabled by smart technology architecture and cloud computing that scale profitably – enabling a low COGS.

The ARALOC platform is a security digital content rights and distribution platform – hosted in the cloud – enabled by custom Apple IOS, Android, Windows and Mac applications – branded as ARALOC or custom branded for the customer. 

The core architecture enables several key product verticals:

• ARALOC competes in the growing Board Portal Software marketplace at Diligent, NASDAQ Boardvantage, BoardPaq and others. It has been included in numerous technology analyst recommendations since inception and is recognized as one of the industry’s first products to deliver on a SaaS-based approach with full encryption and digital rights management for all digital content. Numerous multi-billion-dollar companies have regularly depended on ARALOC and its capabilities for over a decade.
• The ARALOC platform also encompasses other products including the SPARK Employee Communications Platform, Sales Content Management, and publishing/distribution of content for publishing clients. ARALOC provides a high level of content security, audit trails, and analytics to support today’s ever-increasing information security regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, Sarbanes-Oxley, ITAR, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and others.

“We are thrilled to announce such a game-changing transaction for Data443, one that is immediately accreditive for the company,” said Jason Remillard, CEO, LandStar, and founder, Data443. “The acquisition of ARALOC represents a milestone strategic investment that anchors our ongoing investments in privacy, and cloud and data security. In addition to the high quality and caliber of ARALOC’s technology and customer roster – the core cryptography and Bring Your Own Certificate capabilities while hosted on the leading Microsoft Azure cloud platform enables us to leapfrog competitors who are simply starting in this arena. ARALOC has over a decade of technology runtime to leverage – we simply couldn’t pass up this opportunity.”

“I’ve known Jason and his team for quite a while, and we’re thrilled to be a part of Data443’s mission of developing a focused technology stack that’s dedicated towards addressing the current and future challenges of information security and privacy,” said Modevity president and co-founder Jim Coyne. “Together, ARALOC’s platform with additional integration such as ClassiDocs and other planned products and acquisitions will address the rapidly changing and growing demands of customers for integrated information security solutions that can be deeply integrated to the rest of the enterprise – for both cloud and hybrid-cloud applications.”

“Because of our familiarity with the ARALOC team, we have been working closely with them to complete the transition as efficiently as possible, while continuing to grow the customer base and product set. We anticipate minimal service disruption, as the transaction includes full and ongoing supported transition of customers, code, sales, marketing, and other operational facets of the business,” concluded Remillard.

About LandStar
Through its wholly-owned subsidiary Data443 Risk Mitigation, the firm enables secure data – across local devices, network, cloud, and databases – at rest and in flight. ClassiDocs, the company’s data classification and governance technology, provides GDPR compliance and DSAR management coupled with DLP, CASB, SIEM, and cloud solutions to provide user-enabled, governance-enabled, up-to-date security for every data point, every time. The WordPress-based GDPR Framework enables organizations of all sizes to comply with the GDPR and other privacy frameworks. ClassiDocs for Blockchain provides an active implementation for blockchain transactions from inadvertent disclosure and data leaks.