Rising Startup Accelerates on Eve of RSA Conference: Hotshot Wins Four Cybersecurity Excellence Awards; CEO Aaron Turner to Speak at Three Conference Sessions

PLANO, Texas and SAN FRANCISCO, March 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hotshot, a leader in secure, compliant messaging and collaboration that launched in 2018 will present at the RSA 2019 Conference in San Francisco with four new cybersecurity awards under its belt. 

The company continues building momentum at RSA with three presentations by CEO Aaron Turner, coupled with a prestigious SC Media award nomination that will be announced on Tuesday, March 5.

NEW HOTSHOT AWARD WINS and NOMINATIONS:

Hotshot has been honored with four 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards from this 400,000-member Information Security Community. 

• Best Cybersecurity Startup (1 to 9 employees) - Silver Winner
• Best Compliance Solution - Bronze Winner
• Best Mobile Security Solution -- Bronze Winner
• Cybersecurity Professional of the Year - North America -- Aaron Turner - Silver Winner

These awards honor individuals and companies that demonstrate excellence, innovation and leadership in information security. Winners across a variety of categories were selected from over 400 nominations based on the strength of their nomination and the popular vote by members of the Information Security Community.

Hotshot has also been named a finalist as Best Mobile Security Solution by SC Magazine for the 2019 Trust Awards.  Now in its 22nd year, the SC Trust Awards are recognized as the industry gold standard of accomplishment for cybersecurity professionals, products and services. Finalists were chosen by an expert panel of judges with extensive knowledge and experience in the cybersecurity industry. Winners will be announced at the SC Awards gala on March 5, 2019 in San Francisco concurrent with the RSA Conference.

THREE RSA PRESENTATIONS BY HOTSHOT CEO AARON TURNER

Hotshot co-founder and CEO Aaron Turner, who has been on the RSA Conference Program Committee since 2015, is presenting three times during the conference, giving thousands of attendees the opportunity to learn more about the latest innovations in mobile security and compliant messaging and collaboration solutions:

• Anatomy of an Enterprise Mobile Security Incident - March 6, 2019
• Using High-Entropy Encryption for Enterprise Collaboration - March 7, 2019
• Anatomy of an Enterprise Mobile Security Incident (Repeat) - March 8, 2019

Aaron Turner, CEO of Hotshot said, "We are very proud of the global market traction and success we've had since officially launching Hotshot less than a year ago.  Our latest award wins and nominations validate the importance of the innovations we have brought to the industry, and our deep involvement at the RSA conference will give hundreds of organizations and thousands of security professionals the opportunity to see our progress firsthand."

Hotshot enables businesses to affordably address a combination of complex security, compliance and labor laws in North America and the EU with an easy-to-deploy app and patent-pending location-and-time-based encryption technology built on the zero-trust Highside technology platform.  Hotshot founder and CEO Aaron Turner is a cybersecurity veteran with decades of experience in solving the most challenging compliance and security issues for organizations from Microsoft to the US Department of Defense.

About Hotshot®
Hotshot® is a platform for team messaging that is fast, easy to use, secure and compliant with labor laws and regulatory requirements. It empowers employees to harness speed, convenience and efficiency of texting while reducing employer liability concerning privacy and security.  Designed by an international team of regulatory compliance and security technology experts, Hotshot uses state-of-the-art encryption to protect data wherever it may be, whenever it is needed. 

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