Tech Industry Pioneer Don Innis Joins Stellar Technologies As President; Encryption/Data Security Veteran to Direct Expansion of Stellar's Internet Usage Monitoring Products.Business Editors NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2004 Stellar Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of employee Internet monitoring Analyzing traffic on the Internet. Monitoring is performed to determine packet volume for network configuration as well as to find out how employees are spending their time on the Internet. This is the first step in determining whether or not filtering should be added to the network. solutions, today announced that Don Innis, a 25-year tech industry veteran who has founded and successfully led several IT security software companies over his career, has joined the company as president. In his new position Innis will guide Stellar's efforts to become the global market leader in Internet monitoring software and services. Innis comes to Stellar from mobile data security provider Control Break International Corporation, where he was president of that firm's U.S. division. He has also served as senior vice president of worldwide sales for Allen Systems Group (ASG ASG Assign ASG Allen Systems Group (Naples, FL) ASG Abu Sayyaf Group (terrorist group) ASG Associated Student Government ASG Area Support Group ASG Adaptive Services Grid ASG Assistant Secretary General ); prior to his tenure at ASG, Innis founded two highly successful security/encryption product companies, Inware Corporation and Fisher International. "Don Innis is a proven technology industry leader with exceptional strengths in operations, marketing, and sales," said Richard Schmidt, Stellar Technologies chairman and chief executive officer. "His management experience, combined with his thorough knowledge of security technology and the confidentiality issues facing enterprises today, makes him the ideal choice to lead Stellar Technologies into the future." Proven Results Innis has a strong track record of establishing security products in the marketplace and growing corporate revenues. At Control Break International, Innis helped increase CBI's revenue by 800% over a one-year period. He also helped ASG grow its annual revenues from $5 million to over $200 million during his time with the company. After starting his career as a programmer (1) A hardware device used to customize a programmable logic chip such as a PAL, GAL, EPROM, etc. See PROM programmer. (2) A person who designs the logic for and writes the lines of codes of a computer program. for General Motors, Innis began his stint as an entrepreneur by founding Fisher International, a pioneer in electronic mail and PC access control and encryption The reversible transformation of data from the original (the plaintext) to a difficult-to-interpret format (the ciphertext) as a mechanism for protecting its confidentiality, integrity and sometimes its authenticity. Encryption uses an encryption algorithm and one or more encryption keys. , where he also served as CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Later he founded Inware Corporation, which specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. in developing and acquiring software for sale to corporate customers around the world. Serving as that company's president, Innis oversaw o·ver·saw v. Past tense of oversee. the sale of Inware to ASG in 1998. Industry Expert Recognized throughout the industry as an expert in encryption and data security, Innis has successfully managed the introduction of two of the industry's leading security solutions: Top Secret and Watchdog PC. Top Secret is currently owned by Computer Associates and is still considered a leading mainframe security solution. Innis has spoken at IT conferences around the world and is known for his expertise in packaging security technology for a broad range of corporate uses. He is a graduate of Otterbein College, where he majored in mathematics with a minor in economics. About Stellar Technologies Florida based Stellar Technologies (ST) is a leading provider of employee Internet monitoring solutions. ST provides real time reports of employee web usage and instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or conversations, and offers a full line of products from cost efficient web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application. solutions to the in-house Enterprise Edition for businesses or government organizations. Benefits of the ST business solutions include increased productivity and liability control. Please visit www.stellarim.com for more information. |
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