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Sanitization Solution "VOTIRO Disarmer" Captures No.1 Share in Japan 3 Years Running in Email Sanitization/File Sanitization Market
-ITR MARKET VIEW: Endpoint/Sanitization/Internet Separation/CASB Market 2020-

March 11, 2020
Asgent, Inc.
(JASDAQ: 4288)

  Asgent, Inc. (JASDAQ: 4288, President & CEO: Takahiro Sugimoto, located in Chuo-ku, Tokyo), a pioneer in network security, announces that the sanitization solution "VOTIRO Disarmer" (Developer: Votiro, Inc.) distributed by Asgent has captured the number 1 market share by sales amount by vendor in Japan for the third year running in the Japanese e-mail sanitization/file sanitization market in the “ITR MARKET VIEW: Endpoint/Sanitization/Internet Separation/CASB Market 2020” report researched and issued (published in March 2020) by ITR Corporation.

[VOTIRO Disarmer]
  Votiro Disarmer places importance on the possibility that a file could contain malware, and sanitizes all sorts of files that enter from external sources. Various file types including Office, Ichitaro, PDF, CAD etc. are supported, and particularly regarding the Japanese language word processor software "Ichitaro", made in Japan, that is widely used by many organizations, thanks to cooperation on the part of the developer Just Systems, Votiro Disarmer was the first to support this file type. Due to this, currently the product is deployed in 46 prefectures or municipalities within those prefectures (as of January 2019), and is the de facto standard in the market.

Asgent will continue to strive to enable organizations to handle file safely, while providing feedback on market needs to the developer.

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