Guardtime Targets Supply Chain Integrity, Appoints James Blom to Advisory Board Guardtime today announced the appointment

of James Blom, Managing Director of Ma rin Venture Partners to its advisory board. Palo Alto, CA (USA), February 12, 2013 -- Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) , the leading provider of keyless signature technology for validating the integr ity and authenticity of digital data, today announced the appointment of James B lom, Managing Director of Marin Venture Partners to its advisory board. "Jim s network infrastructure and information supply chain expertise will be inval uable as our technology continues to be adopted by the world s largest Mobile Carr iers, Financial Institutions and Governments," said Mike Gault, Guardtime CEO. As we move to a completely electronic world the need for a scalable and universal solution for electronic data authentication has never been more urgent. Guardti me s keyless data authentication technology allows for every system event on a Gov ernment network to be authenticated independently from the operators of that net work thereby ensuring an independently verifiable audit trail. Jim s expertise with Asia & EMEA Mobile carriers and selecting the right technology and supply chain partners for their M2M initiatives will help guide us to becom ing a global standard in data authentication for the world's largest insurance, financial services, healthcare, energy, defense, transportation and automotive c ompanies, added Gault. Says GustvPoola, Guardtime ( http://www.guardtime.com ) VP of Products, Public Ke y Infrastructure was originallydesigned for humans to share secrets, not for lar ge-scale long-term authentication of machine generated data. Our vision is that every single system event on the world s networks can be authenticated independent ly across the dimensions of time, integrity and source. James Blom is the Founder and Managing Director of Marin Venture Partners, an ad visory firm specializing in advising family offices on technology investment. P reviously he co-founded, together with Admiral David Stone, the Alacrity Homelan d Group, specializing in homeland security and protecting critical infrastructur e. During his tenure there he assisted with the formation of several leading sup ply chain and homeland security firms including S2 Global (a Rapiscan subsidiary ). About Guardtime: Guardtime was founded with the goal of solving one of the biggest problems in co mputing: how to authenticate electronic data. Guardtime's Keyless Signatures pro vide proof of signing time, signing entity and data integrity while the verifica tion of the signature can be done offline without reliance on keys, secrets, or the existence of a trusted third party. Guardtime's mission is to change the wor ld to one in which Keyless Signatures are ubiquitous and a natural part of the e veryday data lifecycle, whether on disk, in transit, or in the Cloud. Visit http ://www.guardtime.com for more information about keyless data authentication. Press & Media Contact: Victor Cruz, Principal MediaPR.net Inc Palo Alto, CA - USA +1 978-594-4134 vcruz@mediapr.net http://www.guardtime.com cloud security, dataconductor, cloud computing, keyless signature, compliance, a uthenticate electronic data