ShareThis to incorporate Texar policy-based network security into its real-time collaborative application platform

Texar SecureRealms is a policy-based security authorization solution that enables secure, real-time information sharing within networks and across the Internet. Texar SecureRealms allows information owners to build policies or rules for selectively and securely sharing that information within a virtual realm. The product's policies are completely programmable, providing infinite flexibility in defining the who, what, where, when and why of information sharing.

ShareThis has developed a Java-based, hybrid P2P platform that enables application developers to add real-time collaborative functionality, such as secure team-browsing, instant messaging and application and file-sharing, to existing or new applications. Designed for supply-chain, e-marketplace and CRM applications, the ShareThis platform is being used by a cable system operator in one of its call centers.

This platform currently provides for group chat, secure instant messaging, file sharing of any application, floor control for online meetings, application viewing/sharing with remote control, team browsing, and integration of voice.

ShareThis offers an open platform for delivery of integrated or hosted, secure collaboration and communication applications. The company is based in Portland, Oregon. ShareThis received series A venture funding from Pillar Management with additional financing provided by Coldstream Capital and Empire Ventures.

Founded in 1998, Texar Corporation is a developer of security technologies designed for the c-commerce industry. Headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Texar is a global company employing more than 75 people in its Ottawa facility, as well as sales offices in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, San Francisco, California and Toronto, Canada. Texar builds software that enables organizations to selectively share information with anyone, from anywhere, at any time - securely.

Texar's flagship product, Texar SecureRealms, is a dynamic policy-based authorization solution that enables organizations to selectively and securely share and manipulate information based on their business rules. Texar SecureRealms is differentiated from all other authorization offerings because it provides companies the ability to efficiently write programmable policies that accurately reflect dynamic and complex business decisions and works seamlessly across the enterprise, Web, and peer-to-peer environments. Texar is a private company with headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario.