{"id":124257,"date":"2021-06-25T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/amazon-acquires-encrypted-messaging-app-wickr"},"modified":"2021-06-25T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:22:18","slug":"amazon-acquires-encrypted-messaging-app-wickr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/amazon-acquires-encrypted-messaging-app-wickr","title":{"rendered":"Amazon acquires encrypted messaging app Wickr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-acquires-encrypted-messaging-app-wickr3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to share that AWS has acquired Wickr, an innovative company that has developed the industry\u2019s most secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology,\u201d Stephen Schmidt, Amazon Web Services\u2019 vice president, wrote. With a nod to the company\u2019s ever-deepening relationships with the military, and Washington in general, Schmidt added that Wickr\u2019s features give \u201csecurity conscious enterprises and government agencies the ability to implement important governance and security controls to help them meet their compliance requirements.\u201d Schmidt himself has a background in this space: his LinkedIn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/stephenschmidt1\/\">profile<\/a> notes he spent a decade at the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Wickr\u2019s app \u2014 like secure messaging competitor Signal \u2014 has been popular with journalists and whistleblowers; it\u2019s also been a go-to for criminals, <em>Motherboard<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/epnapp\/amazon-acquires-encrypted-messaging-app-wickr\">notes<\/a>. It\u2019s unclear if the proximity to the tech monolith will impact the app\u2019s popularity for free users.<\/p>\n<p>In Amazon\u2019s case, Schmidt indicates the acquisition was at least partially influenced by the need to preserve information security while working remotely. \u201cWith the move to hybrid work environments, due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises and government agencies have a growing desire to protect their communications,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to share that AWS has acquired Wickr, an innovative company that has developed the industry\u2019s most secure, end-to-end encrypted, communication technology,\u201d Stephen Schmidt, Amazon Web Services\u2019 vice president, wrote. With a nod to the company\u2019s ever-deepening relationships with the military, and Washington in general, Schmidt added that Wickr\u2019s features give \u201csecurity conscious enterprises [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1625,1759,1490,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-encryption","category-governance","category-government","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}