Company: Kiteworks
Chairman and CEO: Jonathan Yaron
Website: https://www.kiteworks.com/
About Kiteworks
Organisations today face an unprecedented convergence of security threats and compliance mandates. Data breaches now cost an average of $4.44 million, regulatory fines have surged tenfold in five years, and data sovereignty laws span over 100 countries. Against this backdrop, Kiteworks has emerged as the definitive solution for regulated industries seeking to enable secure private data exchange without operational compromise.
Kiteworks’ vision extends beyond organic innovation. Through six strategic acquisitions over the past four years, Kiteworks has systematically expanded its capabilities while deepening its global footprint. Each acquisition brings specialised technology and regional expertise – from advanced encryption capabilities to compliance automation tools – that enhance the platform’s ability to serve regulated industries.
Kiteworks pioneered the Private Data Network, a unified platform that consolidates email security, file sharing, managed file transfer, data forms, and APIs under centralised governance. This architectural breakthrough eliminates the security gaps and compliance blind spots inherent in managing disparate point solutions. Organisations leveraging Kiteworks achieve significant reductions in IT overhead and substantial cost savings while gaining complete visibility across every channel where sensitive data moves.
Kiteworks stands alone with FedRAMP Moderate authorisation since 2017 and FedRAMP High Ready in 2025, the U.S. government’s most stringent security standard, requiring continuous monitoring by certified third-party assessors. The platform holds FIPS 140-3 validation and supports nearly 90% of CMMC 2.0 Level 2 requirements out-of-the-box, making it the compliance foundation for defence contractors and federal agencies. Built on a hardened virtual appliance with embedded firewalls and intrusion prevention, Kiteworks demonstrated extraordinary resilience during the Log4Shell crisis, reducing vulnerability exposure from a catastrophic CVSS score of 10 to just 4 through architectural protections alone.
What fundamentally distinguishes Kiteworks, though, is its customer-controlled encryption architecture. Through “Hold Your Own Key” (HYOK) capabilities and double encryption at both file and disk levels, customers maintain absolute sovereignty over their data. Only the customer possesses decryption keys. Not Kiteworks, not cloud providers, not any external entity. This architecture enables organisations to meet the strictest data residency requirements across healthcare, financial services, and government sectors while maintaining operational flexibility through deployment options spanning on-premises, private cloud, and hybrid environments.
Traditional web forms expose sensitive information through inadequate encryption and compliance controls, creating liability wherever patient information, financial data, or personally identifiable information is gathered. Released in 2025, Kiteworks Secure Data Forms delivers enterprise-grade encryption, automated compliance monitoring, and centralised policy controls from the moment data is captured. Deployed within the same hardened environment as with the Kiteworks Private Data Network, this solution enables organisations to modernise data collection workflows while ensuring sovereignty control and regulatory compliance throughout the data lifecycle.
Kiteworks provides centralised policy controls that span authoring, management, data collection, usage, and audit reporting. Administrators establish security policies once, and they automatically apply across all communication channels. Every data interaction generates forensic-grade audit logs, creating the documented compliance trail required by GDPR, HIPAA, and emerging privacy regulations. This governance framework gives organisations confidence that sensitive content is handled in compliance from creation through disposition.
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