Back in America with a black eye, Silent Circle rebuilds with focus on software
Silent Circle’s move to Switzerland in 2014 caused a huge stir. Just after Edward Snowden became a household name, the up-and-coming American tech firm boasting cybersecurity elder statesman Phil Zimmerman bolted from the Western hemisphere in the name of Swiss privacy laws and international neutrality. Three years later, Silent Circle is back in the United States. With relatively little fanfare and following millions of dollars in losses, the mobile security firm is now headquartered in Washington, D.C. It’s focusing on software security products instead of the hardware that initially earned global attention, and it’s aiming to ramp up sales to federal government as cybersecurity and IT modernization remains a focal point, CEO Gregg Smith told CyberScoop. The company recently signed partnerships with Dell and Cog Systems to that end. Among the active government customers Smith described are law enforcement units on the U.S.-Mexico border that employ Silent Circle software to guard against “the cartel’s 91 listening posts,” he said, which […]
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