Social SafeGuard Named a Contender Among Digital Risk Protection Platforms by Independent Research Firm

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Social SafeGuard, the leading software provider for Digital Risk Protection, today announced that Forrester Research, a leading global research and advisory firm, has ranked Social SafeGuard as a Contender in its report: 'The Forrester New Wavetm: Digital Risk Protection, Q3 2018.'

The New Wave report focuses on DRP solutions, which offer rapid event detection and remediation capabilities so companies can fix issues before bad actors exploit them (e.g., sensitive data publicly exposed due to misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets, impersonated social media accounts, or phishing websites) and to limit the effects of successful attacks when they occur.

Social SafeGuard was among the select companies that Forrester invited to participate in its July 17, 2018 Forrester New Wavetm evaluation, The Forrester New Wave: Digital Risk Protection, Q3, 2018. In this evaluation, Social SafeGuard's differentiated ratings were in the social media and mobile risk protection and digital risk analysis and review criteria.

"We believe being named a Contender in this New Wave evaluation validates what our customers have been communicating around the need to fully eliminate social and digital risk across the organization," said Jim Zuffoletti, CEO, Social SafeGuard. "As we grow and expand our enterprise capabilities into dark web, dynamic remediation and cloud-based analytics, and enable through our Social SafeGuard API Hub, we are fast-becoming a critical protection layer for customers and partners on a global scale."

The risk landscape has escalated to proportions where legacy security tools aren't effective or dynamic enough to stop threats across social media and digital channels ? the critical user mass within the organization. According to Forrester: "Customers value Social SafeGuard's social risk data and analysis, using it to identify malicious threats targeting and/or impersonating high-profile stakeholders on social networks."

This recognition and ranking comes on the heels of Social SafeGuard's $11M Series B fundraise announcement, and the appointment of Dave DeWalt as Vice Chair to the company with his investment firm NightDragon as a new investor.

About Social SafeGuard

Social SafeGuard delivers software to manage the full life cycle of digital risk protection, so enterprises can detect, analyze and prevent attacks in real time ? while automating governance and compliance. Customers and partners include Johnson & Johnson, Sun Life Financial, McAfee and other leading brands across 18 industries and 20 countries.

For more information, please visit https://www.socialsafeguard.com.

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