About Tether
Protecting the mobile workforce for 20 years
Tether tracks, encrypts, and contains the laptops that enterprises hand to their people. We have never sold anything else, never served the consumer market, and never shipped a feature that spies on your employees.
Organizations served
Business devices managed
Incidents contained
In operation
Four beliefs that drive our approach
They're the reason certain features don't exist in our product, and the reason certain customers stay for a decade.
The data is the asset, not the hardware
Losing a laptop is a setback, but the data on it is the real risk: files, credentials, connection profiles, and active sessions that no one outside the company should have.
Tether protects that data first and treats the hardware as replaceable. Experienced IT teams work the same way.
Data destruction is dangerous and unnecessary
A remote wipe is permanent. If the device was misplaced instead of stolen, or the command reaches the wrong machine, the data is gone, along with evidence your investigation or legal team may need. At scale, remote wipe is a systemic risk.
We believe there's a better way: Tether makes data unreachable without deleting it, and is reversible when the device is recovered.
Security shouldn't require surveilling your staff
Tether is about operating trusted devices, not spying on staff. We don't build features like webcam capture, keystroke loggers, and sirens. They're security theatre, they're trivially defeated, and they create privacy liability the moment they're abused.
Enterprise only, since the first line of code
We've never sold a consumer product, a freemium tier, or a prosumer roadmap pulling engineering in two directions.
Tether has always been built for mass deployment, central administration, and the audit that follows — because businesses and MSPs are the only customers we've ever served.
Regulated fleets, mobile people.
Our customers concentrate in industries where a missing laptop is a reportable event, not an inconvenience.
Healthcare
Where home-based caregivers handle patient data outside the hospital network, and hospital and medical office-based staff work under the strictest breach-notification rules.
Financial services
Multiple overlapping data privacy regulations, where device encryption states must be provable on demand and complete audit trails maintained.
Manufacturing
Distributed sites and a large contract workforce, where devices are issued and reclaimed constantly and where corporate espionage risk is highest.
Cloud-managed since the beginning
Tether was founded in 2006 as EXO5, building cloud-managed endpoint security back when "cloud-managed" was still a thing you had to argue for.
Together with our customers, we've adapted to many changes in the endpoint security industry, including the rise and fall of several encryption trends and the birth of the MDM and UEM product categories.
Our unique approach to device security has earned us a loyal customer base, which in turn has contributed to our remarkable stability. Over two decades, we've retained the same legal entity, the original founders and much of the original development team, while bringing the next generation into the fold.
In 2023 we changed our name to Tether, but we're still the same product and company. Two decades in, we're still independent — and that's the plan for the next two.
We've been in your seat.
Every employee at Tether comes from an IT, cybersecurity, or software background. We've managed laptop fleets, run IT departments, brought security products to market, and built leading-edge cloud services. All of this experience goes into our product and the support we provide our customers.
Twenty years in IT and SaaS product management. Previously led the team at Wave Systems that launched the first cloud service for managing self-encrypting drives. BS Mechanical Engineering, Columbia.
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Twenty years in emerging technology, including marketing operations at Salesforce and roles at Zendesk, Twilio, Pure Storage, Veeva, and Wrike. BA Economics, UMass Amherst.
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Contact us
EXO5 LLC
dba Tether Security
Tether Security
PO Box 114
San Francisco CA 94104
USA
Tether Security
315 Montgomery St, 10th Floor
San Francisco CA 94104
USA
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