In May 2021, it was announced that Ionic Security had been acquired by Twilio. Providing access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management, Ionic Security had been usefully described as a data security platform and had successfully raised substantial capital from a range of major sources. Formerly dba as Social Fortress, the firm had been structured to enable use of cloud services by protecting sensitive data anywhere it travels and wherever it resides, whether on the corporate network, in the cloud or on mobile devices. Described as the first unified data security platform of its kind, Ionic Security took a comprehensive approach to secure data in todayâs borderless enterprise by providing access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management, without proxies or gateways or changes in user behavior. Ionic has been on a mission to simplify data security at scale through granular policy and cryptographic key management, consistently applied. Like Twilio, Ionic had had a passion for serving developers and Ionicâs platform has empowered developers to build applications with privacy- and security-by-design through a powerful set of cloud-based APIs, SDKs, and tools. Ionicâs platform protects sensitive data in some of the most demanding security environments in large enterprises, financial institutions, and government applications. Twilio managemen indiacted they had been impressed at the scale, resiliency, and proof of compliance that Ionic has develope: a platform designed to decouple access logic from application code; this enables operators to orchestrate and change policy enforcement across multiple systems with minimal to no code changes. When policy requirements change, this design makes companies agile at implementing alterations wherever sensitive data resides or is accessed. How Ionic will support Twilio in addressing evolving security and compliance challenges While Ionic will no longer be accepting new customers as a standalone platform, Ionic has the potential to offer a differentiating capability when packaged as part of Twilioâs communications services. Twilio management indicated intend to integrate Ionicâs technology as a flexible, critical security infrastructure capability that all of their customers can
