DEMO: Security firm launches Purewire Trust to vet web sites, people and software
Purewire is a web security company that serves business users. But the company is announcing a new consumer service that helps users screen through bad web sites or check the identities of people they don’t know.
Dubbed Purewire Trust, the service deals with three threats: potentially malicious people, unsafe places on the web, and unsafe things such as strange Java applications. With Purewire Trust, you simply type in someone’s email address and you can collect a bunch of information about them.
With the email search, you can find out if an eBay user has a good reputation, or who your kids are befriending online, or if a job applicant is being honest, said Paul Judge, chief technology officer and co-founder (pictured right) of the Atlanta-based company. The search results show the person’s reputation and what social networks they have joined, such as Facebook or MySpace. It then lists the pages so that you can view them, if the settings have not been set for privacy.
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