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CipherCloud: Leveraging a Unified Platform to Eliminate Cloud Security Concerns
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Excerpts from an Interview with CEO of CipherCloud, Pravin KothariWhat are your views on security issues being faced today, related to cloud computing solutions?
Cloud surveillance, viruses and breaches all represent some of the biggest security risks of the day. But while these issues initially represent security gaps, they also constitute privacy and compliance headaches for enterprises. Theft of personally identifiable information certainly highlights a security technology issue but that quickly cascades into privacy issues for the people whose data were stolen and compliance issues if the data was not properly protected.
“One Platform, Protect All Your Clouds” says the CipherCloud website. Can you further explain this approach?
Sure. When I founded the company in Oct of 2010, security was dominated by a universe of endpoint solutions that customers had to Frankenstein together for data protection and the result was still not prepared to fully address cloud risks. I wanted to help customers extend protection of their sensitive data from inside their network into the cloud. As result I developed a single platform to discover, protect and monitor data in transit and at rest across all cloud applications.
What are the major differentiating factors of the company and how are they setting the company apart from its competitors?
At three and half years old, CipherCloud has established itself as the leader in cloud information protection. We began our journey with security controls – searchable strong encryption, tokenization, data loss prevention – for protecting data in the cloud because this was the hot button enterprise problem in 2010.
We then integrated visibility tools into our platform to give companies more granular controls over data in the cloud. Cloud discovery provides visibility into all the cloud applications in use at the enterprise. This helps enterprises identify rogue usage, which then gives them the intelligence needed to make the best security choices. Then, we layer continuous data monitoring, both through our own R&D and acquisition (CloudUp Networks), to flag suspicious activities and potential compliance lapses.
And as mentioned earlier, we do all this over a single discover, protect, monitor platform that extends protection from on premises into the cloud.
Our success is clear: we have 350 employees globally and 2.6 million users in 26 countries. This has attracted strong awareness and before we knew it, imitation from other start-ups, which validates our strategy.
What is the future roadmap for the organization?
To continue to lead the pack in providing a holistic set of tools for cloud information protection.
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