Scott Petry

Authentic8
CEO

Scott Petry has been using the cloud to disrupt the information security market for nearly 20 years. He founded Postini in 1999, which pioneered the cloud-delivered service model for email security and content compliance. After Postini was acquired by Google, Scott remained as Director of Product Management for Google Enterprise. In 2010, he co-founded Authentic8, a secure virtual browser solution designed to address the inherent lack of security in the protocols the world uses to access the web. He graduated with a B.S. from San Diego State University.

Industry views: Encryption certainly not going anywhere

No one questions that email is universally adopted. It is in the mainstream. And despite the huge advantages of personal and corporate productivity, the open nature of the internet has made email vulnerable to interception and even alteration by malicious parties. As the risks to the privacy and security of email messaging have grown, so have efforts to protect it.