Jetico

Jetico is a Finnish cybersecurity company founded in 1995 in Tampere, Finland, and currently headquartered near Otaniemi Science Park in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The company develops data protection software, with its two primary product lines being BestCrypt and BCWipe. BestCrypt is an encryption software solution designed to protect data at rest. It has evolved from a command-line DOS utility to a full-featured 64-bit application supporting Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android platforms. The software is positioned as an alternative to tools like BitLocker, with an explicit no-backdoors policy. BCWipe is a secure data deletion and sanitization software suite that includes BCWipe (file-level wiping) and BCWipe Total WipeOut (full drive wiping). The product line supports compliance with data wiping standards used by government and defense agencies. Jetico's customer base spans over 100 countries and includes government agencies, military organizations, national laboratories, industrial manufacturers, enterprises, and individual users. Documented customers include the U.S. Department of Defense, the White House, the U.S. Air Force, the IRS, and Harvard University, with the company reporting over one million customers globally. The company addresses regulatory compliance use cases, including frameworks such as DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act), and focuses specifically on protecting data at rest through encryption and data sanitization. Jetico operates with a stated policy of providing no backdoors in its software.