Mr. Alain Ghiai reports

SEKUR PRIVATE DATA LTD. ON TRACK TO LAUNCH SEKUR ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS FOR SMBS, LARGE ENTERPRISES AND GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS BY JULY 2023

Sekur Private Data Ltd. is on track to launch its Sekur enterprise solutions by the end of July, 2023.

The company's offering for SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses), large enterprises and government organizations will include full users' management, message and e-mail archiving features and admin dashboard for mass onboarding and management of employees. Sekur enterprise solutions will also include a new e-mail feature, to be launched and announced in the coming weeks, allowing large organizations to host C-level e-mails on Sekur's private and secure network offering the company's SekurSend feature, while keeping the rest of their employees on their existing e-mail hosting company, eliminating costly e-mail migrations, while protecting C-level communications to the highest level. This split-level e-mail system also allows C-level employees to maintain the same company domain name as the rest of the employees, while C-levels are hosted on the SekurMail privacy platform. This feature is very much in demand as small and large businesses have recently been the target of business e-mail compromise (BEC) attacks.

A BEC attack is a type of cybercrime where malicious hackers use e-mail to trick someone into sending money or divulging confidential company info. BEC scams are on the rise due to increased remote work -- there were nearly 20,000 BEC complaints to the FBI in 2021, according to the FBI Internet Crime Report.

C-level employees are particularly targeted in BEC attacks. According to this article on TechTarget, BEC exploits often begin with the attacker using a social engineering scam to trick a C-level target into downloading malware, clicking on an infected link or visiting a compromised website. Once the C-level manager's account has been compromised, it can be used to trick another employee into sending money to the attacker.

A popular BEC strategy is to send an official-looking e-mail to someone in the company's finance department. Typically, such an e-mail will say there is a time-sensitive, confidential matter that requires payment to be made to a customer's, partner's or supply chain partner's bank account as soon as possible. The attacker hopes that the unsuspecting person in finance will think they are helping their company by facilitating a quick transfer of funds -- when in reality they are sending money to the attacker's bank account.

The company's enterprise solutions will be priced differently than its consumer versions, with SekurMail being $10 (U.S.)/month/user, with alias e-mails at $7 (U.S.)/month/alias, SekurMessenger priced at $9 (U.S.)/month/user and SekurVPN at $9 (U.S.)/month/user. New solutions such as SekurVoice and SekurPro will add encrypted voice and video to the mix of offerings and are planned to be priced at $20 (U.S.)/month/user and $25 (U.S.)/month/user, respectively. Yearly pricing will be 11 times monthly to offer one free month of service. Businesses will be able to customize bundles for each solution, as they are today.

Customers can now simply go to the Sekur website and select either SekurMail, SekurVPN or SekurMessenger and select any add-on offered for any or both of the other two solutions not selected as the primary choice. Add-ons are offered at a discount when bundled with any single solution. The company is already seeing the advantages of offering the add-ons, as over 50 per cent of its customers choose to bundle solutions.

Alain Ghiai, chief executive officer of Sekur Private Data, said: "We are very excited to be on track to launch our Sekur enterprise solutions, which will improve our existing business solutions, and offer more features to larger enterprises and government organizations. We have a high demand in Latin America for these features and we will be ready for the U.S. market as we launch our B2B platform in Q4 2023. Offering SMB and enterprise solutions is part of the core strategy of the company for Q4 2023 onward, as these solutions increase our average spend per customer and create a more stable and stickier customer base, while still catering to the vast consumer market. There are over 30 million small businesses in the U.S. alone, and we plan to target a percentage of these businesses, protecting them from such things as BEC attacks. Our prime directive is to provide private and secure communications for everyone, and, as we are not connected to any big tech cloud platform, we offer a truly independent, private and secure means of communications without any data mining, through our proprietary technology and our secure servers based in Switzerland. We look forward to continuing to offer true data privacy to all individuals and their businesses and protect their intellectual property, and their privacy, from data miners and malicious hackers."

On April 7, 2023, the company launched its privacy VPN (virtual private network) solution called SekurVPN available through the SekurVPN website and Sekur's website. The company has seen great success for SekurVPN for consumers, and plans to market to the SMB and enterprise in Q4, targeting the 30 million SMBs in the United States, through several digital and e-mail marketing campaigns.

SekurVPN is especially meant for privacy enthusiasts and users wanting to mask their Internet protocol address and protect their Internet activities from hackers, rogue agents and industrial spies. An example would be users going to their e-banking or shopping on-line, using their e-mails, using messaging applications, and wanting to have full privacy and protection from hackers hijacking their location and signal. The service guarantees that it does not use big tech or hyperscalers for its functioning or hosting, it guarantees that there are no third party bundles sold with it, so no data are leaked or sold to third parties, it guarantees no traffic pulling or monitoring, and no phone number required to register to the service. Using a private VPN such as SekurVPN can reduce greatly the risk of BEC attacks for C-level enterprise employees.

According to a study and publication on the Forbes website, 66 per cent use a VPN to help protect personal data, 80 per cent use a VPN for increased security and 33 per cent use a VPN to mask their Internet activity.

Private

SekurVPN uses its own proprietary infrastructure and does not use any hyperscaler or big tech hosting providers, unlike most other VPNs. It offers Swiss IPs only, and this guarantees that it is using only SekurVPN's own servers and routing. Other VPNs offer hundreds of locations and are using big tech providers, compromising users' privacy. SekurVPN never monitors users' activity and never shares any data with third party service providers. By being a pure VPN, without bundled outside services, such as anti-virus and ad blockers, SekurVPN keeps users' information private without sharing their data with third party service providers. With SekurVPN, users do not register their phone number on the app or the Web, rendering users invisible from hackers or snoopers. No phone number to register, anonymous Swiss IPs only, no data mining or traffic sharing with anyone.

Secure

SekurVPN's secure VPN routes all your Internet traffic through SekurVPN's privately owned servers, in multiple locations in Switzerland only, and using the highest encryption industry standards, combined with its proprietary HeliX technology for added security. Encryption keys are not stored on devices and are unique at every connection. Users' passwords, confidential data and Internet surfing stay encrypted even over public untrusted Internet connections.

Easy to use

SekurVPN is extremely easy to set up and deploy. There is no country list and its interface is simplified, just tap or click the connection button. SekurVPN's no-frills but highly secure and private service gives users peace of mind without thinking about geo-locations.

In addition to SekurVPN, the company offers a bundled Sekur plan, which includes SekurMessenger and SekurMail, as a bundle of e-mail, messaging and file transfer into one application, and includes the company's latest SekurMail technology, which includes proprietary anti-phishing and privacy feature called SekurSend. SekurSend lets a user send an e-mail to any other recipient, whether they have Sekur or not, in full privacy and security as the e-mail never leaves Sekur's encrypted e-mail servers based in Switzerland. The recipient can then click on the notification and reply in the same manner using SekurReply, without the recipient having to register for a Sekur account. The sender can also decide to protect any e-mail sent by adding a password to open it, a read limit and a self-destruct timer as well. Sending an e-mail with the SekurSend feature allows the senders and recipients to add limitless size attachments to the e-mails without crowding the recipients' e-mail box. This also eliminates BEC attacks for businesses and e-mail phishing attacks. Additionally, SekurMail includes full control of e-mail delivery, automatic data export for large enterprises and an automatic data loss prevention technology (DLP) with real-time continuous archiving.

Recent data breaches in messaging applications have created a certain urgency for businesses and data privacy advocates to protect their communications from cyber attacks and identity theft through mobile and desktop devices.

SekurMessenger comes with a proprietary feature and technology called Chat-By-Invite. This feature allows a SekurMessenger user (SM user) to invite by e-mail or SMS a non-SM user, or a group of non-SM users, to chat in a fully private and secure way, without the recipient ever having to register to SekurMessenger or download the app. At the end of the chat, the initiator of the conversation can remotely terminate the conversation and all traces of the conversation are deleted from all users, including the recipient. This unique feature is now fully deployed and functional on all iOS and Android devices and Web platforms. The target sectors are numerous, including but not limited to real estate, legal, finance, insurance, medical, government, energy, manufacturing, trade and pharmaceutical sectors.

SekurMessenger also eliminates many of the privacy and security risks by not only not requiring a phone number, which would divulge a user's phone device ID, but also by not social engineering a user's phone or computer contact list and infecting the contacts by default as well, eliminating a huge loophole in security and privacy. SekurMessenger issues each user a username and a Sekur number. The Sekur number is the contact ID a user would disclose in order for other Sekur users to be added. The service comes with a self-destruct timer and other features as well, including Sekur's proprietary VirtualVaults and HeliX technologies with all data stored in Swiss-hosted encrypted servers.

Sekur's data privacy solutions are all hosted in Switzerland, protecting users' data from any outside data intrusion requests. In Switzerland, the right to privacy is guaranteed in Article 13 of the Swiss Federal Constitution. The Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP) of June 19, 1992 (in force since 1993), has set up a strict protection of privacy by prohibiting virtually any processing of personal data which is not expressly authorized by the data subjects. The protection is subject to the authority of the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

Under Swiss federal law, it is a crime to publish information based on leaked secret official discussions. In 2010 the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland found that IP addresses are personal information and that under Swiss privacy laws they may not be used to track Internet usage without the knowledge of the individuals involved.

About Sekur Private Data Ltd.

Sekur Private Data is a cybersecurity and Internet privacy provider of Swiss-hosted solutions for secure and private communications. The company distributes a suite of encrypted e-mails, secure messengers and secure communication tools. Sekur Private Data sells its products through its own website and approved distributors and telecommunications companies worldwide. Sekur Private Data serves consumers, businesses and governments worldwide.

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