EchoMark, Inc.

In 2022, Troy Batterberry - a tech industry veteran with over 30 years of experience at Sony, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Microsoft - founded EchoMark to address a critical gap in information security. While organizations increasingly rely on digital communication and document sharing, the challenge of keeping sensitive data secure has grown exponentially, leading to damaging leaks even within top-tier organizations. Traditional security measures focused on preventing external breaches, but insider threats - accidental or intentional leaks from trusted employees - remained nearly impossible to trace.

EchoMark emerged as the first solution to immediately identify the precise sources of information leaks through AI-powered forensic watermarking using steganography. The company's patent-pending technology embeds invisible, personalized watermarks in documents, emails, and images for each recipient, creating a traceable system that deters leaks without disrupting information flow. The presence of these watermarks fosters trust, accountability, and better stewardship of private information. Named a 2024 Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Security and winner of the Insider Threat Detection Platform of the Year Award at the 2025 Cybersecurity Breakthrough Awards, EchoMark serves clients across government, financial services, legal, healthcare, gaming, and manufacturing industries.