Cybersecurity Startup echomark is releasing a new application programming interface (api) to allow for its novel digital watermarking tool tool to integrate with virtually any existing cammunications.
Founded in 2022 to Develop a digital watermarking system to Safeguard Organizations’ Sensitive and Proprityary Information, Echomark Originally Focused on Injecting Personalized Networked document sharing tools. Now, Armed with $ 10 Million in Seed Funding, The company is on a mission to “Watermark the world,” as founder and ceo troy batterberry puts it.
“Our vision is that any point of private information can be metarked and tied to a recipient’s identity,” Batterberry Tells Fast company, Adding that the company’s customers asked for a way to integrate the software directly into their own beSPOKE Communications Channels. “We built this api so we can add this into any commercial application or custom workflow.”
Batterberry has been thinking about leaks for a long time. As a young missile systems Engineer Conducting Resucting and Development on New Weapons for the Us Navy, Batterberry Found Himself Personally Entrusted with “Deeeply Classified Stufe Stantly Adding His Signature to Paper Copies of Sensitive Documents to Signal His Role as their Authorized Guardian .
“Signing your name on the top of a document indicates you’re the custodian of that information,” He says. “Psychologically, it changes how you think about protecting that information. If you leave it out, you could lose your security clearance -or, even WorsE, Your Entre Profession. “
Following his career in the navy, batterberry went into the private sector as an engineer, first at Sony and then Microsoft, Where he He Spent the Next 25 Years and Eventily Fachame a corporate VP in Charage of TEMS s. It was at microsoft that batterberry developed a digital rights management system to protect streaming media via audio and visual watermarks. Such Safeguards Ensured that, Should Content Make Its Way to Illegal Streaming Portals Like Bitterrent, The source of the Leak BELD BE Easily Identified.
Thos Experiences Eventually coiled in batterberry’s brain into a pressing organizational question ILS and Images to Healthcare records and legal documents?
