It’s been a busy month for Trusteer. The company, which offers secure browsing services, was named a Red Herring Europe 100 winner last week and Amit Klein was named CTO of the Year by InfoWorld Magazine recently.
The criteria for the Red Herring award included financial performance, technology innovation and execution of strategy. According to the company, its solutions are used by more than 60 leading financial organizations in North America and Europe and by more than 6.8 million of their customers.
Regarding innovation, Amit Klein was recently honored by InfoWorld for his “discoveries of new attack techniques and for his leadership in improving the security of online banking and commerce.”
Under Klein’s leadership,
“Trusteer recently launched `Flashlight` a new remote fraud investigation and mitigation service which identifies the attack source on a customer’s machine, gathers samples, and can reverse engineer the mechanism used by the malware to commit fraud. Findings enable banks and other organizations to prevent future losses, block subsequent attacks, and takedown command/control servers.”
Trusteer CEO Mickey Boodaei has been very outspoken in recent weeks about allegations that Google is planning to drop the Microsoft operating system for security reasons. Boodaei has stressed that other companies shouldn’t follow since going to other browsers doesn’t solve the problem and could actually cause more problems on less targeted machines.
Trusteer is one of eight Israeli companies named Red Herring 100 winners this year.
