security founded 2009 headquarters malvern worcestershire uk key people robin king ceo simon wiseman cto products mail guard web guard transshipment guard transgap network management guard file transfer guard digital identity guard chat guard minerva next generation data diode revenue 5m 1 number of employees 26 2015 2 website www.deep secure.com deep secure limited 3 is a british company based in malvern worcestershire . it provides network security guard products for assured secure information sharing . contents 1 history 2 customers 3 products 4 awards 5 references 6 external links history edit deep secure limited was formed in december 2009 by a management buy in of the specialist products division of clearswift . the buy in was backed by venture capital firm yfm . 4 the yfm managed chandos fund 5 and british smaller companies vcts 1 and 2 all backed the deal through which software entrepreneur richard beaton became chairman of deep secure with miles clee as ceo . the new company set up offices in reading uk . in june 2010 simon wiseman joined deep secure as head of development from qinetiq s cyber security division . 6 in september 2010 deep secure relocated to malvern worcestershire 7 in the uk s cyber valley . 8 in september 2012 robin king became ceo . customers edit deep secure s products have been selected in military procurement projects . 9 10 11 products edit when deep secure was formed it acquired two products from clearswift bastion and deepsecure . bastion is an eal4 evaluated guard platform originally targeted at the sun trusted solaris 8 operating system . it was later ported to solaris 10 with trusted extensions . the platform exploits the mandatory access control features of the solaris operating system to provide separate compartments for the different components of the guard . 12 deepsecure is an eal4 evaluated guard 13 for smtp and x. 400 email that runs on the bastion platform . since the acquisition the bastion and deepsecure products were merged and their scope widened to cover hypertext transfer protocol http and https for web browsing and web services . in addition a network management guard has been created to protect network and security management systems from the networks they monitor and control . this provides a full application level proxy for simple network management protocol snmp and internet control message protocol icmp . further developments include integrating the guards with third party data diodes to provide high assurance one way connections that defend against the threat to the integrity of data and availability of services in the protected network . minerva is deep secure s next generation data diode . minerva is an enhanced diode that allows information to be checked before securely passed in or out of an isolated system whilst protecting against attack from the opposite direction . awards edit colin nash business development manager at deep secure won the afcea 2010 meritorious service award . 14 cyber security specialist deep secure ltd won the ukceb excellence award for making information sharing secure for their work on the signed and encrypted email over the internet seeoti project in february 2012 . 15 deep secure won the bvca venture capital backed management team of the year award in the midlands region 16 in may 2012 . 17 references edit deep secure ltd . linkedin . retrieved 2012 01 19 . company employees . linkedin.com . retrieved 2012 01 19 . companies house . yfm backs deep secure mbi . growthbusiness.co.uk . 2009 12 21 . retrieved 2012 01 19 . yfm chandos fund . deep secure recruitment drive attracts dr simon wiseman as head of development . beaton takes a stake in sleek malvern cyber valley initiative deepsecure at heart of new nato messaging system . findarticles.com . 2005 01 06 . retrieved 2012 01 19 . deepsecure chosen by australian dod deep secure wins defence information infrastructure order for multiple high assurance guards bastion security target deep secure security target meritorious service award at technet international 2010 for deep secure . cyber security specialist deep secure ltd win ukceb excellence awards for making information sharing secure . archived from the original on april 5 2005 . http www.bvca mta.com deep secure are winners of the venture capital backed management teams of the year award . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title deep secure & oldid 739225262 categories companies based in worcestershireprivately held companies of the united kingdomhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what 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