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Polyverse and PlayNetwork Announce Strategic Cybersecurity PartnershipPolyverse Corporation and PlayNetwork today announced their partnership to secure PlayNetwork's CURIOPlayer Z8 and API platform using Polyverse's Moving Target (News - Alert) Defense (MTD) cybersecurity product. Polyverse's MTD solution, the Polyverse polymorphic version of Linux, is the only cybersecurity product proven by the U.S. Department of Defense to stop 100 percent of zero-day memory exploits. "Polyverse delivers a superior security product that we can quickly and easily deploy across thousands of PlayNetwork devices," said Josh Thomas, SVP of Technology for PlayNetwork. "I will sleep easier at night with the knowledge that PlayNetwork's critical infrastructure and network of devices in the field are protected by Polyverse's Moving Target Defense solution and supported by the Polyverse team of experts." Through the relationship, PlayNetwork will implement Polyverse's MTD solution on the PlayNetwork CURIOPlayer Z8 and within PlayNetwork's API platform to ensure security and prevent zero-day memory exploits. "The Polyverse and PlayNetwork collaboration demonstrates a Moving Target Defense cybersecurity solution for IoT that stands up to zero-day attacks and removes the need for reactive, panic patching-saving time, money, and downtime in IT operations," said Polyverse Corporation Founder and CEO Alex Gounares. "We are thrilled to secure PlayNetwork's CURIOPlayer Z8 and the PlayNetwork's API platform in a way that preserves PlayNetwork's device efficiencies and leaves the user experience unchanged." The collaoration between PlayNetwork and Polyverse will secure:
About Polyverse Polyverse's polymorphic version of Linux is the only Moving Target Defense cybersecurity product proven by the U.S. Department of Defense to stop 100 percent of zero-day memory exploits from buffer overflow bugs and the like. Polyverse eliminates the need for costly and disruptive panic patching through its constant scrambling of location instructions and is the largest build farm in the world with 1 million build jobs a day. Founded in 2015 by a group of technologists, Polyverse brings together top engineering and management talent from such firms as Microsoft, Amazon, AOL (News - Alert), and academia. Polyverse is led by co-founder and CEO Alex Gounares, who brings 25 years of senior leadership experience in the technology industry, holding CTO roles at AOL and Microsoft (News - Alert), and serving as Technology Advisor to Microsoft Chairman and Founder Bill Gates. He has founded four startups and is an inventor on more than 200 U.S. patents. To learn more visit https://polyverse.io and for the latest Polyverse news follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) @Polyverse_io or read our blog. About PlayNetwork PlayNetwork helps brands use music, content and technology to increase consumer engagement, in-venue and beyond. These experiences add emotion to omni-channel touch points that strengthen the connection with customers and influence lifetime value. Clients work with PlayNetwork for creative strategy development, branded music curation and global licensing, original video production, messaging, audio/visual systems engineering and installation, technology and software development, and more. They partner with 450+ brands across 185,000+ locations in 125+ countries, reaching more than 100 million people every day.
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