About Us
Navajo Systems' vision is to dramatically expand the use of SaaS applications by eliminating the barriers related to data security and regulatory concerns. Founded by experts in the fields of information security, infrastructure security and Web application security, Navajo has introduced a patent-pending technology which promises to revolutionize SaaS application data security. The company, based in Israel, is funded by Jerusalem Venture Partners (www.jvpvc.com), a leading Israeli venture capital fund with over $780 million under management.
Origin of the Navajo Systems Name
Navajo Systems' technology is based on a concept similar to that used by the United States Marine Corps during World War II to transmit secret communications. In 1942, the Marines recruited dozens of members of the second-largest native American tribe, the Navajos, to encode, transmit, and decode secret military communications under combat conditions.
These Navajo code talkers, as they became known, created a military communication code from the ancient language of their people, a language highly complex in grammar, syntax and tonal quality. The Navajo code talkers served in every major engagement of the Pacific theater from 1942-1945, and the Japanese Imperial Army and Navy never cracked the spoken code. Considered by some to be the most ingenious and successful code in military history, it is credited by high-ranking military officers to have made possible the United States' victory in the Battle of Iwo Jima.