Credant Technologies was a data security company located in Addison, Texas. The company was founded in 2001 by Bob Heard, Chris Burchett and Andrew Kahl.
Credant was acquired by Dell in December 2012.
History
In December 2012, Dell agreed to acquire Credant for an undisclosed amount.
Products
The company offered a range of products to protect data from "leaking". Several different versions of the main technology can be used on different locations in the network: via a "policy proxy" on the border between the LAN and the internet or in the DMZ, or a central "enterprise server" within the network. Also editions for Exchange servers and domain controllers are available. Other products are self-encrypting drivers that will encrypt all data on that drive without any additional requirements on the client or from the user, BitLocker management systems, Policy Reporting tools.
