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Backbone Security Receives US Department of Commerce Export Achievement Award
U.S. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan Presented Award at Ceremony Held During Teaming to Win
2009
PRESS RELEASE
October 19, 2009
WHEELING, WV - U.S. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan D-W.Va. presented the U.S. Department
of Commerce Export Achievement Certificate (EAC) to Backbone Security of Fairmont,
WV during the 20th Anniversary of Teaming to Win Conference on Thursday, October
15.
Congressman Mollohan presented the award to Vice President Jim Wingate and Backbone
Security staff Chad Davis and Robert Lipscomb.
The Export Achievement Certificate program recognizes small- and medium-sized U.S.
businesses that exhibit a strong commitment to exporting and have realized the benefits
through sales and growth. Backbone Security has made that commitment and has been
exporting for several years. As a result, they have created 3 new jobs and hired
two interns from Fairmont State University.
A small ceremony was held during the Teaming To Win Conference at the I-79 Technology
Park Center in Fairmont WV. Participants included CSWV Director Leslie Drake, President
of the Harrison County Chamber of Commerce Katherine Wagner, President of the Marion
County Chamber of Commerce Tina Shaw, Judy McCauley with the U.S. Small Business
Administration, and other local economic and governmental leaders.
Tina Shaw, President of the Marion County Chamber for Commerce mentioned “I’m very
proud of our business community, and an achievement such as this is a real feather
in their cap.”
Vice President for Backbone Security, Jim Wingate, received the EAC Award, and mentioned
“Exporting is an essential element of our product marketing strategy. Our experience,
thus far, has revealed significant international market potential for our products
as many countries are just now beginning to establish computer forensics labs. We
anticipate continued success with international sales that will increase revenue
and allow us to expand our research and development activities.”
“This Award that Backbone Security has received should encourage other Small Businesses
in West Virginia to consider exporting. The U.S. Commercial Service in West Virginia
can help companies to understand the process and to identify international markets
for their products and services,” said Diego Gattesco, Senior International Trade
Specialist with the U.S. Export Assistance Center in Wheeling.
For more information, contact Gattesco at
Diego.Gattesco@mail.doc.gov or 304-243-5493.
About the SARC - The SARC is a Center of Excellence in digital steganography research and development within Backbone Security. The SARC has established the worlds largest commercially available repository of digital steganography applications, fingerprints, and signatures and has developed industry leading computer forensics and network security steganalysis tools for detecting and extracting information hidden with digital steganography applications.
About Backbone Security - In addition to the world class digital steganography research and development conducted in the SARC, Backbone is an Approved Scanning Vender (ASV) certified by the Payment Card Industry-(PCI) Security Standards Council to conduct automated PCI Data Security Standard compliance assessments with a One-Stop Scanning Solution.