SINGAPORE, Feb 13 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) — Privacy engineering firm Privitar today announced the opening of its Singapore office to support the APAC region. Over the last year, the company has rapidly expanded in response to the growing demand for software products employing leading privacy enhancing techniques. Privitar is leading the development of innovative, ethical data use with an uncompromising approach to data privacy. Its software helps eliminate the threat of advanced privacy attacks and protects data using the latest privacy techniques. Gartner recognised Privitar in its September 2018 Cool Vendors in Banking report.
The firm works with leading public and private sector organisations and has recently secured a strategic investment from Citi made public on Monday 10th December. Citi is joining existing Privitar’s shareholders, Partech, Salesforce Ventures, CME Ventures, Illuminate Financial Management and IQ Capital. Since its launch in 2014, Privitar has operated across industries (including financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceutical and government) and has secured high profile customers in the FTSE100, including NHS Digital.