Talk:Egress Software

Written like an Advertisement
This article appears to be written like an ad and seems to have been written by the business itself in violation of Wikipedia guidelines (ACTUALCOI, SPA). 167.21.141.14 (talk) 12:17, 19 June 2015 (UTC)


 * I agree it's an advert, also Wikipedia has guidelines not rules about COI, so they are allowed to create it, just strongly discouraged from doing so. I've PRODed it. Joseph2302 (talk) 12:26, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

Hyperlinks
Just added alot of wikilinks, please say that it is now not underlinked

Product lists in infobox
Per Template:Infobox_company this parameter should include a "representative selection of the company's well known current or former products", not a comprehensive indiscriminate product list. Editors with a possible conflict of interest are welcome to suggest additions and changes - based on independent reliable sources - here on the talkpage (via "request corrections or suggest content" on top of the page). GermanJoe (talk) 10:51, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion
Possible this could be challenged with improvement/correction but pointless if it would not survive an AfD so at this moment personally not prepared to deprod or attempt to make required improvements due to possibly fruitless effort involved. Article has suffered from quite possibly good faith edits from people with conflicts of interest. The totality of some previous edits to address some issues may have compromised this articles' survivability from other criteria.Djm-leighpark (talk) 10:59, 18 April 2018 (UTC) Article not eligible for PROD anyway.Djm-leighpark (talk) 16:56, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Capitisation
The company itself seems to be varying the capitisation of itself and its product. There it is unclear to me egress switch or Egress Switch is more appropriate; Egress switch is really not viable.Djm-leighpark (talk) 17:35, 18 April 2018 (UTC). Egress Switch used.Djm-leighpark (talk) 21:34, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

Article improvement
I've done some improvements. There's a redirect now set up from Egress Switch as that's where de-orphaning will come from. Most of the Looks like an advert stuff was actually removed previously some of which may have been technically useful. Article is however in my opinion capable of improvement.Djm-leighpark (talk) 21:34, 18 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Hi guys, I'm an employee at Egress and would like to resolve some of the outstanding issues on the Egress Software company page. As per Wikipedia guidelines regarding COI, it would be great to discuss some of the issues with an expert rather than making any edits myself, and to add more up-to-date content about the company as it has grown in the past 4 years. James, James3500 (talk) 12:23, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
 * Thankyou for declaring your COI. This is a quick response rather than a fully checked out response.  Couple of places to look are WP:COI, WP:PSCOI and WP:REQEDIT.  After you've navigated to get the right declarations in the right places, make sure you've done that ... you can use the Edit requests system to request changes.  Be aware anything that has hint of promotion or advert or non-neutral language will likely be rejected.  I might try to talk you over a bit on on your talk page to start you off when I get a chance.  Or I might not.  I'm a volunteer.  I'll try and dig out a couple of examples too.Djm-leighpark (talk) 13:05, 16 July 2019 (UTC)

Request edit on 17 July 2019
As per my earlier comment, I'd like to request some changes to the Egress page given that I am an employee and am conscious of the COI guidelines. Initially I'd like to request changes in our infobox, to provide more up-to-date and thorough information about the company, and also to update our intro & history sections to make them more neutral while adding more detail. I'd also like to add a 'Funding' section (between History & Products), similar to competitors and other software companies. New requested content is below. Thanks in advance for your support! James3500 (talk) 13:09, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Egress Software Technologies is a multinational provider of a range of data-security services focused on protecting businesses and consumers, when sharing confidential information over email and other channels.

As of 2019, the company has approximately 250 employees worldwide. Headquartered in London, UK, the company has further main offices in North America (Boston, MA in the USA) and continental Europe (Amsterdam, Netherlands). The company also has development centers in Sheffield, UK and in Richmond Hill, Ontario in Canada.

Egress develops email and collaboration security software for organizations and individuals, including secure email, email encryption, machine-learning-based email protection, secure collaboration, and file-sharing tools.

History
Egress Software Technologies was founded in 2007 by Tony Pepper, Neil Larkins and John Goodyear, based in London & Barnsley in the UK. The founders had previously held senior management positions at Reflex Magnetics, when it was acquired by Protect Data (the holding company for PointSec Mobile Technologies), which itself was later acquired by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

In early 2018, the company relocated from its first offices in Queen's Park, London to join the cluster of high-tech companies in the ‘Silicon Roundabout’ area of London on the Old Street Roundabout. In 2018, Egress also opened its North America office, in Boston, MA in the USA. In 2019, the company opened its first office in continental Europe in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Funding
In March 2014, the venture capital firm Albion Ventures LLP made an investment of £2.2m in the company. In December 2018, Egress raised a further $40m (£31m) in funding from US private equity fund FTV Capital.

Albion Ventures partner Ed Lascelles serves on the company’s board of directors. FTV Capital partner Kyle Griswold is also an Egress board member.

Egress Switch
A major use of Egress Switch software is for the secure transfer of emails and documents to non-secure email addresses.

Product certification and Agency approved listings
In October 2013, Egress Switch was certified by CESG against Desktop and Gateway Email Encryption Security Characteristics as part of their Commercial Product Assurance program. This makes Switch suitable for sharing IL2 and low-threat IL3 data under the then guidelines, and OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL SENSITIVE under the 2014 UK government security classifications policy. this certification lies with National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and is currently extended until 20 December 2019.

In May 2014, Egress Switch encryption services became available to procure via the G-Cloud 5 Framework, the UK Government's program committed to the adoption of Cloud services across the Public Sector. Through the G-Cloud Framework, Public Sector organizations will be able to procure the following Egress Switch services: Switch Secure Email, Switch Secure File Transfer and Switch Secure Web Form via a number of Egress value added resellers.

Also in May 2014, Egress Switch Secure Email was listed in the NATO Information Assurance Product Catalogue, which provides the 28 NATO nations, as well as their civil and military bodies, with a directory of Information Assurance products, protection profiles and packages that are in use or available for procurement to meet operational requirements.

Awards
— Preceding unsigned comment added by James3500 (talk • contribs) 15:32, 17 July 2019 (UTC)

Reply 17-JUN-2019

 * Your edit request could not be reviewed because the provided references are not formatted correctly. The citation style predominantly used by the Egress Software article is Citation Style 1 (CS1). The citation style used in the edit request consists of a combination of bare URL's along with CS1. Any requested edit of yours which may be implemented will need to resemble the current style already in use in the article – in this case, CS1. (See WP:CITEVAR.) In the extended section below titled Citation style, I have illustrated two examples: one showing how the edit request was submitted, and another showing how requests should be submitted in the future:

Mixed bare URL/CS1 reference formatting: The Sun's diameter is 864,337 miles,[1] while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles.[2] The Sun's temperature is 5,778 degrees Kelvin.[3]

References

1. 2.  3. Uemura, Shū. . Academic Press, 2019, p. 2.

In the example above, there are three references provided with the claim statements, but only one of those references has been placed using Citation Style 1, which is the style predominantly used by the Egress Software article. The other references have been provided using bare URL's. As you can see, the references provided using bare URL's only show the URL in the References section, whereas the reference using CS1 displays the author, title, and year in the References section. Your edit request similarly mixes CS1 references with bare URL's, when only one citation style should be used. Using only CS1, the WikiFormatted text should resemble the following:

Citation Style 1 formatting: The Sun's diameter is 864,337 miles, while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles. The Sun's temperature is 5,778 degrees Kelvin. Which displays as: The Sun's diameter is 864,337 miles,[1] while the Moon's diameter is 2,159 miles.[2] The Sun's temperature is 5,778 degrees Kelvin.[3]

References

^ Sjöblad, Tristan. . Academic Press, 2019, p. 1. ^ Harinath, Paramjit. (2019)., Science, 51(78):46. ^ Uemura, Shū. . Academic Press, 2019, p. 2. 

In the example above, all three references have been formatted according to Citation Style 1, which shows the author, the source's name, date, etc., all information which is lost when only bare URL's are provided. As Wikipedia is a volunteer project, edit requests such yours are generally expected to have this formatting done before the request is submitted for review.

Kindly rewrite your edit request so that it aligns more with the second example shown in the collapsed section above, and feel free to re-submit that edit request at your earliest convenience. If you have any questions about this formatting please don't hesitate to ask myself or another editor. Regards, Spintendo  00:42, 18 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi Spintendo, thanks for the input! References updated. James3500 (talk) 10:42, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

COI edits 26 October 2021
@: I appreciate you declared in in July 2019 you were an employee of the company but your contributions on 26 October 2021 have caused a lot of problems and I'm going to have to revert the lot to clear the COI edits, and its not going to be a straightforward revert. If, after I've done that there's a simple material fact e.g. the CEO has changed let me know and I'll change that. Otherwise join the Request edit queue. Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 19:32, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
 * I've reverted the COI edits. Thankyou. ✅
 * A second look revealed other issues I've had to have a go at, some especially in August 2021 which were a mixture of postive and negative. Need to go elsewhere now (or actually 4 hours ago!).  Thankyou. Djm-leighpark (talk) 15:01, 15 November 2021 (UTC)