Ken Westin
Entrepreneur, security groupie and privacy pundit.
Ken Westin is the Founder of the popular GadgetTrak© cross-platform mobile security and data protection software. He is regularly reached out to by the press as a subject matter expert regarding mobile security and data privacy, speaks at conferences and provides training to law enforcement regarding computer security. His endpoint security research and tools are included in the Certified Ethical Hacker training materials and other publications.
Westin launched the first GadgetTrak product in 2007, which provided a way to track media devices such as iPods, digital cameras and external drives. He was awarded a patent for the technology in early 2009. The company was instantly profitable with a number of deals with hardware manufacturers such as Seagate and FLIR.
Under Westin's leadership the company has continued to innovate, launching the first ever patent-pending tracking solution for laptops that utilizes both the integrated web camera to capture photos of thieves and Wi-Fi positioning for location, resulting in a number of amazing recoveries. The company recently launched a new mobile security platform that allows users to track missing devices, capture photos and remotely wipe, encrypt and backup sensitive information. In addition the company launched an innovative free service enabling people to search the web for photos taken with their camera by serial number.
The company's technology has been featured on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America and many top news and tech sites including the New York Times, Forbes, TechCrunch, The Economist and more. The company was recently named in Entrepreuner Magazine's "100 Brilliant Companies".