Smith Micro Announces Exclusive Strategic Partnership with Gryphon Online Safety, Inc.
March 28 2019 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Gryphon will help power SafePath® Home –
Connecting the Mobile Experience to the Home
Smith Micro Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMSI) (“Smith Micro” or the
“Company”) today announced it has signed an exclusive strategic
license agreement with Gryphon Online Safety, Inc., providing a
software solution that offers simple, yet powerful integration of
home routers, including future in-home 5G routers, with the
SafePath® platform. Known as SafePath Home, this new capability
continues the vision for SafePath, making it possible to add all
in-home devices to the digital family lifestyle. Family life
includes time inside and outside the home. SafePath provides a
single pane of glass through which the family can manage and secure
their digital lifestyle no matter where they happen to be.
Smith Micro’s SafePath solution provides both location and
parental controls to ensure family safety when family members are
mobile. Now, with SafePath Home, these safeguards are extended to
cover the family while they are at home. Additionally, the SafePath
platform includes the management of consumer IoT devices, an
integral part of the digital lifestyle of the future. With SafePath
Home, smart home devices become part of the digital lifestyle
vision.
Through this exclusive partnership with Gryphon, SafePath Home
meets the full spectrum of needs through a cloud-managed router
agent that can be integrated with any Linux-based home router.
SafePath Home Features:
- Parental Controls: Allows
parents to set age level restrictions for each device and Internet
time limits, as well as content filtering by age.
- Intelligent Intrusion Detection and
Malware Filtering: Utilizes machine learning that recognizes
and monitors each device in your home, warning you of
intrusion.
- View Browsing History: Offers
the ability to monitor your children’s browsing history even if
they clear browsing history on their device.
- Set Bedtimes/Homework Times:
Parents have the option to schedule screen time limits, turning off
Internet access to fit their family’s schedules.
- Pause the Internet: Pause the
Internet easily with a touch of a button when desired.
- Safe Search: Enforces Safe
Search/YouTube filtering to hide inappropriate content.
- App Control: Block online access
for popular apps such as Fortnite, Snapchat, and YouTube.
- Remote Control: With SafePath
Home, your smart phone is transformed to a remote control that
manages all functionality in home or when away.
- Automatic Software Updates:
Keeps your software and security up to date with automatic,
over-the-air patches to your WiFi router.
- Mesh WiFi Network Management:
Intelligently manage and optimize the health of your WiFi network
for fast Internet speeds throughout the home.
“Our SafePath platform continues to evolve, meeting the needs of
a digital lifestyle that spreads beyond traditional mobile devices
to include family life at home. These in-home capabilities are a
natural extension of our SafePath platform boosted by the addition
of the Gryphon secure router agent and cloud API, satisfying mobile
operator and consumer demand for a single solution that integrates
the mobile world and the home, meeting the needs of the family, no
matter where they happen to be,” said William W. Smith, Jr.,
President and CEO of Smith Micro. “Seamlessly connecting all
devices in the home through a powerful software solution, SafePath
Home allows consumers to take control and protect their connected
family and their home.”
“The number of connected devices in our homes is exploding,
exposing our families to unfiltered content and our smart devices
to new online threats,” said John Wu, CEO of Gryphon. “We are
delighted to partner with Smith Micro to offer operators, ISPs, and
home security service providers the most comprehensive in-home and
mobile protection solution in the industry.”
For further information, please
visit: https://www.smithmicro.com/safepath/home.
About Smith Micro Software, Inc.
Smith Micro develops software to simplify and enhance the mobile
experience, providing solutions to some of the leading wireless
service providers and cable MSOs around the world. From enabling
the family digital lifestyle to providing powerful voice messaging
capabilities, our solutions enrich today’s connected lifestyles
while creating new opportunities to engage consumers via
smartphones and consumer IoT devices. The Smith Micro portfolio
also includes a wide range of products for creating, sharing, and
monetizing rich content, such as visual voice messaging, optimizing
retail content display, performing analytics on any product set,
and 2D/3D graphics applications. For more information,
visit www.smithmicro.com.
About Gryphon Online Safety, Inc.
On a mission to protect connected families, Gryphon develops a
cloud managed network protection software platform that is powered
by machine learning for homes and small businesses. The patented
platform utilizes a cloud managed agent that sits on the edge
network with easy to manage parental controls, machine learning
algorithms for more efficient content filtering, network health
monitoring, malware blocking, intelligent behavior based intrusion
detection, and real-time controls to manage connected devices from
anywhere, any time. The Gryphon secure mesh WiFi router running the
network protection platform has won numerous recognitions such as
the Best of CES 2019 from TechAeris, Best Security Focused Mesh
WiFi Router from Tom’s Guide, Best Parental Control Router by
Business Insider, and Best Parental Control Hardware by Fatherly.
For more information, visit www.gryphonconnect.com.
SafePath, Smith Micro and the Smith Micro logo are registered
trademarks or trademarks of Smith Micro Software, Inc. GRYPHON® and
Gryphon Connect® are registered trademarks of Gryphon Online
Safety, Inc. All other trademarks and product names are the
property of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Statements:
Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking
statements regarding future events or results, including statements
related to the future availability of our products and the benefits
that we believe our products will offer to our customers, and
statements using such words as “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,”
“plan,” “intend,” “could,” “will” and other similar expressions.
Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which
could cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements. Among the
important factors that could cause or contribute to such
differences are delays in our product development and third party
integration efforts and limitations on our ability to compete
effectively with other software and technology companies. These and
other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including our filings on Forms 10-K and 10-Q,
could cause actual results to differ materially from those
expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. The
forward-looking statements contained in this release are made on
the basis of the views and assumptions of management, and we do not
undertake any obligation to update these statements to reflect
events or circumstances occurring after the date of this
release.
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