Posted on

Who We Are

 

Myntex has been a global contender since mobile encryption emerged onto the market, but our manner of doing business has been what’s set us apart from the rest. We believe that running a legitimate, honest, and transparent business is key to gaining the trust and respect of our partners, customers, and competitors.

We have always been open with our intentions to make encryption readily available to everyone around the globe and we have never bought into blocking other providers, causing drama, or talking down about others in the industry. We feel that providing the best product coupled with the best customer service is key to healthy growth of our brand.

 

We operate our office and data center in Calgary, Alberta where we extend an open invitation to our partners, customers, and anyone else that is interested in learning about encryption. We don’t hide behind a website, or contact form but encourage people to come in to meet our team, and see our beautiful space.

 

Our data center is more than capable of handling the trials and tribulations that go along with running mission-critical services for our customers. You can read more about our data center here.

 

The Myntex office/data center is packed full of intriguing and fun things to help with morale, and encourage creativity. No one wants to come into boring a cubicle ridden office.

The sole purpose of creating our office the way we did was to make it welcoming to our current, and prospective partners and customers. We also want the place we work to reflect our business morals, and goals; to be fun, engaging, and modern.

 

With leading edge technology, world class customer support, 99.9% service up-time, and some of the brightest minds in the encryption industry we can confidently say that if you are looking to represent a brand, Myntex should be your first choice.

 

We would love to hear from you, feel free to get in touch with us!

Posted on

Myntex Protect its Customers from Cyber Attacks. Here’s How.

Anyone with a computer or internet connection is vulnerable to a cyber attack. The motives behind these attacks vary, but generally the goal of hackers is to disable a network or service, expose confidential information, demand a ransom or steal private data. No matter the motivation, it’s always illegal and it’s becoming more and more common.

As a PGP encryption provider and a global business, Myntex is the target of something called a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. In this post we’ll explore what a DDoS attack is and how Myntex has taken all the necessary steps to protect its customers.

 

What is a DDoS attack?

A DDoS attack happens when a hacker (or often a team of hackers) “flood” a network with requests and information in a bid to make a service unavailable. This flood overwhelms the server of a company or organization, and effectively takes it out of service. It’s illegal, but happens regularly, and it’s extremely difficult to track down the perpetrators because the attack usually comes from many different sources.

Before launching the attack, hackers will build a network of infected computers. These infected computers are called bots and when collectively used together they form a “botnet.” The hackers spread malware via emails and social media (read our last post about the dangers of phishing). Once they have a large enough botnet, hackers can use their army of computers to launch a coordinated attack.

Large-scale operations are often the target of DDoS attacks, including banks and health care systems. Many of the high-profile cyber incidents you’ve read about were most likely DDoS attacks.

 

How does Myntex protect its customers?  

We’re acutely aware of the threat of DDoS attacks. Keeping the data of our customers private and secure is our utmost priority. We protect PGP encryption customers with a two-prong approach.

First, only authorized individuals have the ability to communicate with the Myntex infrastructure, via our whitelist. This largely prevents DDoS attacks. Random computers don’t have the ability to launch an attack because we drop all unauthorized traffic from our system.

Second, we use Radware DDoS protection to further mitigate the threat of attacks.

Radware is a large and respected company that protects leading global businesses, as well as governments, from large-scale attacks.

Radware has the ability to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks as they are unfolding in real time and respond within seconds. They filter requests to our service, which gives us clean traffic. In turn, our infrastructure is protected and so are our customers.

Our customers retain their ability to communicate securely and privately using PGP encryption for BlackBerry.

 

 

Do you have more questions about how we protect customers from cyber attacks? Get in touch.