The State of Data Security 2020

All it takes is for one file containing sensitive data to be copied outside of the organization for a serious data breach to occur

AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB)
March 02, 2020

Lepide, a leading provider of data security solutions, today released a report that reveals an alarming insight into the risks facing data security in enterprises across the globe, as well as insight into how unprepared most organizations are to mitigate those risks. In particular, the report, 2020 State of Data Security Report from Lepide, found that enterprises have, on average, more than 6,500 files containing sensitive data created, and more than 1,600 file server modifications made every day.

Read the full report.

The report, which was based on more than 500 Risk Analysis Reports conducted by Lepide over the course of 2019 for customers and potential customers on their critical infrastructure, highlights several key problems that need addressing in the world of data security and compliance, in particular:

• The lack of visibility over where sensitive data is, what sensitive data is being created and which users have access to this sensitive data.
• Large numbers of privileged users with access to sensitive data that should not have or do not need this access.
• Stale and sensitive data that is improperly managed and protected in accordance with compliance standards such as GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, CCPA and more.
• Huge attack surfaces created by inactive users.
• Huge numbers of users with passwords that never expire creating easing hiding places for hackers.

The findings from the report include:

• 71% of companies have over 1,600 file server modifications made every day.
• 44% of companies have over 100,000 failed logons every day.
• 71% of companies have over 1,000 inactive users.
• 31% of companies have over 1,000 users with passwords that never expire.
• 91% of companies have over 1,000 “stale”, sensitive files.
• 77% of companies have over 5,000 “stale”, sensitive files.

“This report confirms what we have been seeing for years with enterprises of all sizes,” says Aidan Simister, CEO of Lepide. “All too often organizations have struggled to determine where their sensitive data is, who has access to it and what their users are doing with it. Native tools do not provide this insight and many vendors are far too expensive or too complicated to effectively deploy and gleam useful insights from.

All it takes is for one file containing sensitive data to be copied outside of the organization for a serious data breach to occur. We hope that this report can raise awareness about how much more visibility is required over data to detect threats, prevent breaches and achieve and maintain compliance standards.”

ABOUT THE 2020 STATE OF DATA SECURITY REPORT

Over the course of 2019, Lepide conducted over 500 risk assessments with enterprises (over 1000 employees) in 17 different countries across the globe. The findings have been combined to shed some light on the current state of data security in 2020.

ABOUT LEPIDE RISK ANALYSIS REPORTS

Lepide performs frequent, completely free, Data Risk Analysis Reports for their potential customers that allow them to determine where their sensitive data is, how much of it is at risk, and provides real steps towards achieving better data security and compliance.

ABOUT LEPIDE

Lepide is a global provider of data security solutions. We help some of the world’s largest enterprises improve data protection, meet compliance and detect/react to threats through our Data Security Platform.

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“We are thrilled to be named as one of the best places to work by Business Intelligence Group,” said John Cooley, President and COO at Nanoramic.

BOSTON (PRWEB)
March 02, 2020

The Business Intelligence Group announced Nanoramic Laboratories as a winner of its Best Places to Work award. The organization sought to identify companies that are actively working to improve their own performance through efforts to challenge employees in environments that make work fun and engaging. 

“We are thrilled to be named as one of the best places to work by Business Intelligence Group,” said John Cooley, President and COO at Nanoramic. “We take pride in our culture of transparency, empowerment, innovation and work/life balance and it is an honor to be recognized alongside all of the winners of this award.”

“Congratulations to Nanoramic for building an organization focused on employee engagement and performance,” said Maria Jimenez, Chief Nominations Officer of Business Intelligence Group. “It was clear from analyzing the employee survey data that this is a great place to work and employee feedback is not only listened to, but acted upon. Congratulations to the entire team.”

About Nanoramic Laboratories

Nanoramic Laboratories is an industry-leading energy storage technology company and materials solutions innovator headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Spun out of MIT in 2009, Nanoramic is the exclusive designer, manufacturer, and licenser of NeocarbonixTM electrodes for rechargeable li-ion batteries, li-ion capacitors, and supercapacitors.

About Business Intelligence Group

The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing true talent and superior performance in the business world. Unlike other industry and business award programs, business executives—those with experience and knowledge—judge the programs. The organization’s proprietary and unique scoring system selectively measures performance across multiple business domains and then rewards those companies whose achievements stand above those of their peers.

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ERock Christopher collaborating with the Sharks!

“I’m eager to learn best practices in marketing by collaborating with ERock and BizFamous. As a sales leader who collaborates with marketing, I’m excited to be a sales (and marketing) leader who owns sales and marketing,” said Chad Burmeister, CEO of ScaleX.ai

LITTLETON, Colo. (PRWEB)
March 02, 2020

As AI for Sales becomes a space, ScaleX.ai continues to be at the forefront of this movement.

To further the creation of the AI for Sales category, ScaleX.ai welcomes ERock (Eric) Christopher to the ScaleX Board of Advisors. In this role, ERock will provide marketing advisory and executive leadership to continue to be at the forefront of AI for Sales.

The BizFamous 5 Tips to Make Your Business Famous:

1) Create an ingenious product. Check (ScaleX.ai is the first-ever AI for Sales platform)

2) Leverage social media marketing. Check (currently investing $500/mo on digital ads, will be scaling that aggressively)

3) Build a community. Check (The Sales Expert Channel AI for Sales Expert, and the C-Suite Network AI for Sales Podcast)

4) Devise a publicity hook to win earned media coverage. Work in progress.

5) Know your strengths and stay focused. Work in progress.

According to ERock, “When I first learned what ScaleX was doing for entrepreneurs, I was instantly drawn to help ScaleX continue to build the brand and the AI for Sales category. Chad’s history of leading sales for successful companies like Cisco-WebEx, Riverbed, ON24, and RingCentral, is impressive, and his ability to execute is unparalleled.”

Within the first few weeks, the enhancements recommended by ERock have already made a difference. Customer Testimonials are a big deal – so ScaleX flew to Phoenix, Arizona to shoot a customer case study video that will be highlighted throughout the month of March via paid-ads and digital outreach. ERock will collaborate with the ScaleX executive team to track existing conversion rates, then help us increase spend, and ultimately meetings/pipeline and bookings across various social media channels.

“I’m eager to learn best practices in marketing by collaborating with ERock and BizFamous. As a sales leader who collaborates with marketing, I’m excited to be a sales (and marketing) leader who owns sales and marketing,” said Chad Burmeister, CEO of ScaleX.ai.

About ERock: ERock is driven by his mission to help entrepreneurs attract the right audience, build authority, and generate revenue. Before devoting his work fulltime as a business consultant, he served as a strength and conditioning coach to amateur athletes and Olympic gold medalists. He pursued his passion for the media industry after the success of his part-time marketing business.

Learn more about ScaleX.ai here: https://www.scalex.ai/solutions.

About ScaleX.ai – ScaleX.ai delivers personalization at scale, powered by artificial intelligence (TM). Whether you are looking to bring 10X more productivity to your internal sales team, or partner with a company that consistently delivers 25 or more meetings per month per BDR, ScaleX has a solution. To learn more about ScaleX.ai, watch the YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-DiV2ceDM4

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IT Should Clearly Support Your Business Goals and Objectives

How you adopt cloud services is more important that what you adopt.

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. (PRWEB)
February 27, 2020

Cumulus Global, the Cloud Forward service provider, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company has named Cumulus Global to its 2020 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the Pioneer 250 category. This MSP 500 identifies North American solution providers that deliver operational efficiencies, IT system improvements, and a higher rate of return on investments for their customers. These accomplished MSPs work tirelessly to guide their customers and create solutions for complex IT issues.

For the second consecutive year, Cumulus Global is being recognized for its managed cloud services that deliver desired business outcomes to small and midsize businesses, local governments, and K12 schools. Beyond deployment, training, and support, Cumulus Global helps organizations and teams fully utilize their IT and cloud services for the best value and greatest impact.

“MSPs are the critical bridge for customers looking to assess, implement and migrate their IT and cloud solutions to drive efficiencies, lower costs and secure your environment,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. “On behalf of our team at The Channel Company, I want to congratulate the accomplished companies on CRN’s 2020 MSP 500 list and thank them for their commitment to finding innovative solutions that move the IT channel forward.”

“We are honored for the continued recognition as an industry leader,” noted Allen Falcon, CEO of Cumulus Global. “I am proud of our team members who measure our success by measuring our clients’ success.”

The MSP 500 list is available in the February 2020 issue of CRN and online at http://www.crn.com/msp500.

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The all new historical analytics feature in Otus.

Every industry in the world has a way to measure performance in real-time, except for education.

CHICAGO (PRWEB)
February 27, 2020

Otus, the fast-growing edtech company based in Chicago, announced today the release of two transformational data analytics tools: Historical Analytics and the Otus Data Consortium.

Historical Analytics is designed to give school and district leaders a simplified way to see trends in student academic performance, engagement and social-emotional development, and ultimately the impact these have on state and local assessments over time.

The Otus Data Consortium allows neighboring or like-minded school districts to share and compare their student performance data using their own criteria. In practice: a High School Principal can generate a report instantly to see all of the student data from every feeder middle school in minutes. This allows school leaders to develop better plans for incoming students, and eliminates countless face-to-face meetings with incomplete data.

“Every industry in the world has a way to measure performance in real-time, except for K12 education. This means that schools are being run by leaders who, by no fault of their own, are forced to make decisions using incomplete or stagnant data, like state-test scores,” said Andy Bluhm, CEO and Co-Founder of Otus. “With Otus, school and district leaders can pair student performance on infrequent high-stakes and benchmark assessments with real-time classroom data on how students are performing each day. By providing a complete learning picture, administrators have the foundation to continuously improve educational outcomes more rapidly than ever before .”

The challenge to seeing data in real-time, is the ability to collect data in real-time. Otus has overcome this challenge by building dozens of teacher-friendly tools that seamlessly integrate into one platform. Otus encourages frequent use by teachers by eliminating the need to bounce from one disconnected app to another to complete all of tasks associated with their jobs. From grading assignments to texting families, all of these tasks live in one place: Otus.

As Otus is used by teachers and students, performance data is organized, aggregated and paired with legacy data (state tests, college entrance exams, benchmark assessments) and made available for an infinite number of analyses in real-time so that critical decisions can be made based on the best and most accurate information.

In addition to detailed data analysis (gender, student subgroup, ethnicity/race, extracurriculars, etc.) that individual school systems can practice with their own students, Otus also released the Otus Data Consortium tool which gives school districts the ability to share their data with one another for cross-district analysis and idea sharing.

“As K12 educators work to collaborate, the ability to compare a single district to similar school systems, or to schools anywhere in the world using a common set of data, is critical” said Dr. Keith Westman, COO of Otus.

“We have several school systems representing some of the largest and smallest districts in the country who were given early access to our analytics tools,” said Christopher Hull, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder. “The conversations that are happening in districts as a result of what the data is showing have been powerful. Teachers are seeing the results of their work in entirely new ways which have led to better conversations about student learning.”

With this product release, current and future Otus clients have access to these powerful new analytics tools that shine a light, creating a clear path forward to maximize student learning.

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Improving IoT device security with the latest technology is important for reducing related risks and building trust around projected business outcomes derived from IoT ecosystem data

BOXBOROUGH, Mass. and SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)
February 25, 2020

At the RSA® Conference 2020 in San Francisco, California, Allegro Software, a leading supplier of security and connectivity software for the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced additions to the Allegro EdgeSecure Suite™ that provide Transport Layer Security (TLS) API compatibility for ARM’s Mbed™ TLS and Open Source Software OpenSSL. A member of the larger Allego EdgeAgent Suite™ of embedded software toolkits, the Allegro EdgeSecure Suite of products enable IoT edge device developers with advanced security technology specifically engineered for resource constrained execution environments. The Allegro EdgeSecure Suite now includes an API compatibility layer for ARM developers looking for TLS v1.3 and FIPS validated cryptography while protecting their existing investment in application software. The Allegro EdgeSecure Suite also includes an API compatibility layer for device developers using Open Source Software OpenSSL with requirements for TLS v1.3 and FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography. The Allegro EdgeSecure Suite and larger Allegro EdgeAgent Suite are delivered as ANSI-C source and are available to quickly implement TLS v1.3 and FIPS validated cryptography with IoT edge devices.

API COMPATIBILIY WITH ARM’S MBED TLS

ARM® technology is used by billions of people, across billions of devices, every single day. To help achieve this milestone, ARM recognized the need to remove the complexities of creating IoT edge devices. Their answer, a collection of pre-integrated software components starting with the Mbed OS surrounded with supporting technology stacks including Mbed TLS v1.2. Providing an API compatibility layer for Mbed TLS, the Allegro EdgeSecure Suite further removes the complexity of migrating to the latest TLS v1.3 while also adding FIPS validated cryptography. Together these two technologies enable developers to improve IoT edge device security and reduce related risks while preserving any potential source code investment made integrating to the Mbed TLS API.

API COMPATIBILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OPENSSL

If you have a requirement for TLS v1.3 and FIPS 140-2 validated cryptography and also have a significant internal investment in source code integrated to the OpenSSL API, Allegro Software can help. With the addition of an OpenSSL API compatibility layer to the Allegro EdgeSecure Suite, device developers can rapidly deploy TLS v1.3 and FIPS validated cryptography in their IoT edge devices with little to no change to their source code. Unlike OpenSSL, the Allegro EdgeSecure Suite and the Allegro Cryptography Engine (ACE™) provide a stable API and long-term solution for FIPS 140-2 (and soon to be 140-3) validation. Originally engineered for resource constrained IoT environments, ACE can be used stand-alone or pre-integrated with the entire Allegro EdgeSecure Suite of IoT edge device security components.

“Improving IoT device security with the latest technology is important for reducing related risks and building trust around projected business outcomes derived from IoT ecosystem data,” says

Bob Van Andel, President of Allegro. “Using the Allegro EdgeSecure Suite with the supplied compatibility layers enables developers to retain their investment in IoT ecosystem source code while moving forward with the latest TLS v1.3 and FIPS validated cryptography.”

The full Allegro EdgeAgent Suite is provided as ANSI-C source code and is available today. For more information, stop by the Allegro Software Booth #4610 or visit the Allegro Software website: https://www.allegrosoft.com

About Allegro

Allegro Software is a leading provider of IoT edge security and connectivity software toolkits to manufacturers worldwide. Field proven in 250,000,000+ devices, our solutions enable OEMs in Energy, Healthcare, Medical, Military, Enterprise, and Consumer markets to create connected secure devices using TLS, SSH, FIPS 140-2 and more. Since 1996, Allegro has been on the forefront of leading the evolution of embedded device management, security, and connectivity solutions with its patented embedded web server and security toolkits. Allegro is headquartered in Boxborough, MA. and can be found on the web at https://www.allegrosoft.com.

Contacts:

Loren Shade

VP Marketing

Allegro Software Development Corporation

978-264-6600

loren@allegrosoft.com

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