eFortresses recently announced that its CloudeAssurance platform has been certified by  Gartner (News - Alert) to be in the Cool Vendors in risk management and compliance in 2013. This is a significant achievement for eFortresses, as Gartner had only awarded four companies with the cool vendor. It chose eFortresses in particular because of its CloudAssurance platform.

The cloud solution is specially designed for enterprises who have an international outreach, government customers, cloud brokerages, cloud service providers and cloud auditors that are looking for ways to stand out from the competition by supplying their clients with advanced levels of security assurance and transparency. CloudeAssurance, Inc serves as the  software division of eFortresses, Inc and is based on a cloud security scoring through a Software-as-a-Service (Seas) licensing and delivery model.

In a release, Taiye Lambo, President and Founder of eFortresses, Inc said "eFortresses is honored to be named amongst this small group of innovative cool vendors. This recognition coincides with the publication of our second quarterly independent study report titled 'Cloud Security Benchmark: Top 10 Cloud Service Providers' and I believe this recognition validates our product roadmap and go to market strategy".

eFortresses anticipates that in the near future information security is going to be critical as the world makes the shift to a mobile devices. The CloudeAssurance platform looks to protect customers by analyzing and measuring the cloud service providers' ability to securely deliver services that are in accordance with industry best practices, standards, and regulatory compliance.