Metaforic Among Network World's Top 10 IT Security Companies To Watch

MetaFortress’ Unique Approach to Application Hardening Recognized as Solution to Prevent Tampering and Piracy 

SAN JOSE, Calif. — November 20, 2008 —

Metaforic, a leading provider of anti-tamper solutions, today announced it has been selected by leading technology publication, Network World as one of the top ten IT security companies to watch. The publication recognizes MetaFortress as a leading application security solution that prevents tampering and piracy. 

"MetaFortress is software designed to prevent tampering, piracy and theft of applications through use of a digital-hash checksum-based mechanism. When it detects software has been altered, it can either kill the process to eject the attacker, shut down the application or take other actions," reports Network World. "Optimally, MetaFortress should be incorporated into development environments such as Visual Studio to be installed into applications. With piracy still a huge drain on the software industry, it may look at MetaFortress as a means to thwart theft."

The Network World honor is the latest in a series of significant milestones for the early-stage start-up. In September, the company was selected as a semi-finalist in the Global Security Challenge (GSC), an international business competition focusing on and identifying the world’s most promising security start-ups. In addition, within the last two months Metaforic has announced the availability of MetaFortress, closed a round of funding, established a U.S. office, and hired senior sales and technical staff.

“Clearly MetaFortress is addressing a significant market need in order to garner the attention of leading organizations such as Network World and GSC,” said Andrew McLennan CEO of Metaforic. “We are continuing to hear first-hand from countless enterprises and software manufactures alike that they need a new approach to application security. The applications need to be hardened and protected from piracy, illegal usage and hacking. The bottom line is that MetaFortress provides this security and that is why we are experiencing the market traction and industry attention.” 

The complete 2008 “10 IT Security Companies to Watch” list can be found in the November 17 issue of Network World or viewed online at:www.networkworld.com/news/2008/111708-security-companies.html.

Metaforic appoints Steve Goodison U.S. V.P. of Sales

SAN JOSE, Calif. — November 18, 2008 —

Metaforic, a leading provider of anti-tamper solutions today announced the appointment of Steven Goodison as U.S. vice president of sales. Goodison is responsible for leading the company’s U.S. sales organization, forging new market opportunities and creating synergies across all distribution channels. Goodison brings 20 years of experience in enterprise technology sales, where he focused on building national sales teams, selling new technology solutions direct to early adopters and managing major accounts.

“Steve possesses a highly successful track record in high-value sales both directly and indirectly through strategic partnerships,” said Andrew McLennan, CEO, Metaforic. “His unique experience in both direct sales and management is invaluable to us as we build out our sales and marketing effort. We look forward to his contributions as we work to extend our reach in the U.S. and further execute on our aggressive business plan.” 

Prior to Metaforic, Goodison has held numerous sales and management positions with several leading technology companies including Tivoli Systems, Network Physics, SupportSoft, IBM and HP. He’s been an integral part of developing a number of early stage technology start-ups to successful acquisitions or IPOs. During his career, he has consistently delivered some of the largest sales deals and customer contracts to emerging companies.

“It’s great to join a company with an innovative approach to the long-standing issue of security,” said Goodison. “It is clearer than ever that safeguarding your application will continue to be among the most important, mission-critical applications in the market. Being able to bring the benefits of MetaFortress to the U.S. market is an exciting opportunity because of the strength and unique capabilities of the product. Both Josh and I look forward to working with enterprise-class customers on their security needs.” 

Metaforic is also announcing the appointment of Joshua Pincus to the positions of sales engineer and senior developer. He will be responsible for providing technical expertise related to new and existing customer security requirements with a research emphasis on secure computing for virtual environments. Pincus’ start-up experience focuses on product architecture for both embedded and user-facing application products for the inventory management and surveillance markets.

Prior to joining Metaforic, Pincus was a systems architect consultant. He worked for eight years at Sun Microsystems, specializing in the design and development of SPARC hypervisor firmware and Solaris device drivers. He was also at Voltage Security, where he helped the company port its innovative email security solution from Linux to Solaris and from ia32 to SPARC. 

“We are delighted that we have two very experienced professionals to lead our sales effort in the U.S.,” said McLennan. “With the current state of the economy, security solutions are more important than ever and our efforts to bring a comprehensive anti-tampering solution to the U.S. will be well served with this experienced team.” 

Both Pincus and Goodison will be located in Metaforic’s San Jose office.