2. T
he modern workforce is,
quite literally, movers and
shakers.
Whether self-bought or company-
bought, employees use mobile
devices to work from the office,
go from meeting to meeting,
travel cross-country to attend
conferences, and even work from
home.
But for some, this is a little
problematic. With employees
using personal and portable
devices for work purposes,
security hazards exist. Theft.
Security breaches. Data loss.
I need not go on.
It’s why 75% of CIOs view mobile
security for organizations as not
only a headache but a significant
problem.
However, with modern problems
come modern solutions.
Advancements in modern business
technology have equipped
firms to work efficiently across
their intended industries and
generate escalated revenue.
Strategic procurement and
work management solutions
have significantly relieved
enterprises from non-core business
functions, while wireless expense
management software has allowed
them to reduce unnecessary
corporate spending. But among the
many technological introductions
in recent years, enterprise mobility
management has arguably been
one of the most popular topics of
discussion in B2B circles.
Enterprise mobility management
is a tool that allows the owners
to keep track of the incoming
and outgoing calls and SMS,
and emails that directly affect
the company’s functioning. This
process or method of internalizing
networks also provides support in
cases of data fraud or when the
device is lost. Data susceptible to
fraud has higher chances of being
accessed through various unfair
means.
One of the best firms to choose
to help your workforce transition
to a remote workforce is SyncDog
Inc. SyncDog challenges the status
quo and changes the game on
how organizations empower their
mobile workforce. They enable
companies to reset expectations
on how employees can get work
done on the go.
SyncDog recognizes companies
need to flex to leverage talent over
diverse geography confidently,
and their solution provides a
secure method to an integrated
workforce. A single occasion of
their Secure. Systems™ solution
can be used across your mobile
workforce as well as third party
contractors and consultants.
Understanding security for a
mobile workforce—SyncDog
A common misconception about
emerging security firms is that
they don’t have the brain power
of “the big guys.” This is untrue.
Emerging firms are often founded
by former employees of large
corporations who noticed a market
gap they could address when freed
from bureaucratic hindrances that
mire large corporations.
Innovators tend to be passionate
and dedicated explicitly about
the niche they set off to improve,
more so than individuals who
work across the diluted offerings
of large companies. Even
with impressive revenue, it is
challenging for corporations
to be the best at everything
from network security to mobile
security. Specialized firms, like
SyncDog, wield the potent mix of
brilliant and driven technologists
dedicated to easing the pain
points of specific problems—in
SyncDog’s case, end-to-end
mobile security.
Although almost all firms today
have employees who want or
require the ability to work outside
the four walls of the organization,
the current mobile security
solutions being utilized today
still have them tethered to
their laptops and office—They
still say “I’ll get to that once I’m
back at my desk” far too often.
Your employees should be able
to do their work from wherever
they are. SyncDog combines a
suite of office applications such as
email, calendar, contacts, office
editor, file share, location services,
messaging, etc., along with an
architecture that protects and
secures your mobile workforce
through FIPS 140-2, AES 256-bit
encryption that finally removes the
technological struggle of having to
choose between increased security
or increased productivity. SyncDog
enables you to have both.
Providing fully integrated end-to-end mobile
security solutions—SyncDog Inc.
3. “
SyncDog’s Secure.Systems™
easily integrates into existing
endpoint management solutions
and can be deployed from the
cloud, on-premise, or as a hybrid
deployment.
SyncDog’s mobile security—
working smarter, not harder
In today’s cyber threat landscape,
no corporation is neither safe from
a security incident, nor can they
rely on built-in security features
to protect their corporate data.
Cybercriminals are continually
exploiting vulnerabilities in
popular software and orchestrating
sophisticated cyberattacks,
clarifying that basic security
hygiene, while integral to the
overall security strategy, cannot
provide sufficient protection
alone. These attacks can impact
thousands of businesses and
organizations, from small
businesses to government
agencies. The question is, will
your organization be next?
A complete End-to-End
trusted mobile security
solution—Secure.Sytems of
SyncDog
SyncDog protects and manages
the device, detects and prevents
phishing/malware and other
intrusions, encrypts and isolates
all the government or corporate
data/apps/files accessed by or
stored on the device, and offers a
private app store for distribution
of internal hybrid or native
apps.
Organizations can access all the
security features from a single
vendor, a single download, and
centrally managed in a single
administrative console; this is
what SyncDog can do for your
organization.
Containerization
Privileged users can easily define
the security rules within the app
and deny or grant corporate data
access privileges on devices.
Mobile device management
SyncDog’s enterprise mobility
management (EMM) tool includes
device tracking, inventory,
application distribution, password
verification, enforcement, and data
encryption.
Mobile threat defense
If end-users are protected
through SyncDog’s EMM toll
before allowing them to access or
download sensitive corporate data,
they will remain secure on both
managed and unmanaged devices
Private app store
SyncDog’s app store follows a
similar experience as the popular
public app store. Applications
on SyncDog’s app store come
with supporting information,
screenshots, and reviews.
Allowing employees protect a
mobile workforce in the age of
work-from-home
Jonas Gyllensvaan is the Founder and CEO of
SyncDog. He is the successful founder of multiple
mobility technologies companies, Jonas has been a
leader in the information technology marketplace
for over 20 years. He has specifically been exploring
advancements in mobile device security since
the 1990s.
He has bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from
Högskolan i Halmstad in Sweden and cybersecurity
courses from Harvard University.
SyncDog, when your old EMM
solution just isn’t enough!”
Jonas Gyllensvaan
Founder & CEO
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4. D
efenseStorm is a uniquely
specialized cybersecurity,
cyberfraud and cyber
compliance company
built for banking. They help
financial institutions achieve
real time cyber safety and
soundness through the only
co-managed, cloud-based and
compliance-automated solution
of its kind – delivered as both
a technology system and a
service supported by experts in
financial institution security and
compliance.
DefenseStorm unifies detection,
investigation, resolution,
reporting and compliance into
a single system of record to
deliver complete, transparent
and real-time cyber exposure
readiness. They help security
teams stay smart and executives
stay informed, so they can easily
prove they are secure as well as
compliant with their own policies
and with evolving regulatory
requirements and industry
standards.
The DefenseStorm
Difference
THREAT READY
Proactively manage your total
cyber exposure
Consolidate data from all
sources, without volume limits,
so you can oversee your entire
security and fraud operations
with real-time visibility.
Specialized logic lets you
zero-in on the threats
that matter most.
TEAM SMART
Multiply your cyber team and
expertise almost instantly
The company’s Threat Ready
Active Compliance (TRAC)
Team of cybersecurity and
cybercompliance experts works
for you, keeping you covered
24x7x365. You define rules of
engagement, incident workflow
and triage processes to suit you.
BOARD ACCOUNTABLE
Continuously prove compliance
with policies and regulations
Connect policies and regulations
with real-time enforcement of
cyber controls. Security and
regulatory frameworks are
integrated into the DefenseStorm
GRID, as are your policies and
other internal controls as well.
Real Time Cyber Safety and
Soundness
Financial institutions are subjected
to more than 70 million cyber
events every day. To mitigate
risk, DefenseStorm works as your
partner in addressing the unique
cyber threats and compliance
demands facing banks and
credit unions in today’s complex
financial services landscape to
build a community of trust.
Threat Ready Active
Compliance (TRAC)
DefenseStorm co-managed
approach to cybersecurity is
supported by a team of analysts
and engineers who continuously
monitor and protect your network.
The TRAC team of certified cyber
professionals augments your staff
and investigates alerts on your
behalf, allowing you to focus on
your core business.
TRAC’s Four-Pronged Approach
• Monitoring – review alerts,
close false positives, escalate
incidents and continuously
tune triggers
• Investigating – geo-locate
anomalies, analyze north-
south and east-west patterns,
investigate untracked assets
and log analysis
• Community Intelligence –
Access Cyber Threat Center
forum in which DefenseStorm
clients share experiences and
insight with one another
• Incident Response –
Experience 7x24x365
protection aligned to your
escalation process, including
mitigation and change
recommendations from
experienced incident managers
Cyber attacks against the
financial sector are up 238%
and continue to rise
With the constantly evolving storm
of threats facing the financial
services industry, organizations
need an efficient way to connect
monitoring, detection, triage,
response, resolution, audit-trail
and reporting. And with a global
shortage of qualified cyber
staff and a highly competitive
marketplace for well-credentialed
experts, it’s difficult to hire the
DefenseStorm is a uniquely specialized cybersecurity,
cyberfraud, and cybercompliance company built for banking
5. people needed to stay ahead of
these threats.
DefenseStorm CyberSecurity
leverages human interaction with
machine learning for optimal
performance. Security data is
consolidated from any and all
sources without volume limits,
real-time visibility into the entire
security operation is achieved,
false positives are eliminated and
events are prioritized to enable
you to zero-in on the threats that
matter most.
A co-managed approach multiplies
your cyber team and talent
instantly. DefenseStorm’s Threat
Ready Active Compliance (TRAC)
team of banking and cybersecurity
experts helps monitor and manage
your security posture 24x7x365.
Always Protected
With DefenseStorm CyberSecurity,
your network is protected using a
range of proprietary technologies
including:
THREATMATCH
To leverage threat source feeds
without volume limits and identify
known threats in event signals
across your network.
PATTERNSCOUT
To catch unknown threats by
flagging anomalies not categorized
in known threat patterns.
TRIGGER LIBRARY
To catalog threat vulnerabilities
associated with assets and services
across your network, including
your own policies and operational
controls.
ALERT DERIVATIVES
To recognize alert patterns from
ThreatMatch, PatternScout and
the Trigger Library in order to
identify previously unseen threats,
eliminate false positives and
prioritize threats to elevate.
CyberSecurity, CyberFraud
and CyberCompliance in
one real-time system of
record
The state-of-the-art DefenseStorm
GRID powers the only purpose-
built for banking system that
Steve Soukup, Chief Executive Officer
Steve Soukup has served as Chief Executive Officer
since 2020 and in that role is responsible for leading all
aspects of the company’s business. He is passionate about
building a community of trust among DefenseStorm’s
teams and with the customers while also enabling them
to do the same with their accountholders. Steve joined
the company as Chief Revenue Officer in May 2017
with a charge to drive growth for the business while
leveraging his extensive experience serving the banking
vertical. He was promoted to President in October 2019
and then to CEO in April of 2020. Under his leadership,
DefenseStorm has set the standard for cyber safety and
soundness within the banking vertical.
Steve is a graduate of Boston College and earned a
Master of Business Administration degree from Boston
University. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Steve and his
family have called the Atlanta area home for over 10
years. Steve Soukup
CEO
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6. Providing intelligent data backup at massive
scale—Cobalt Iron Compass®
A
catastrophic event can
happen anytime. And in
these scenarios, fortune
favors the prepared.
But is your business prepared to
handle the worst-case scenario?
Is your business at risk of a
catastrophic network failure
that will render your company’s
entire collection of data being
wiped clean?
That’s a scary thought.
Cloud-based enterprise backup
systems and solutions offer firms
an effective method to protect
their data from potential disasters.
Conventional wisdom from even a
few years ago dictated that it is best
to control backups closely. Whole
generations of IT administrators
have grown up with rules — like
making three copies of all data,
keeping a tape copy offsite, etc.
However, two drivers — SaaS
and Mobility — have forced a
disruption that is causing a rethink
of several strategies; and data
backup is no exception.
One use case for SaaS backup
software is to store and protect
the data that SaaS products create.
SaaS backup software stores data
in a secondary location, either
on-premises or often in the cloud,
so if the SaaS product fails, the
client information is stored safely.
If the SaaS products fail for any
reason, the client can recover the
data stored by the SaaS backup
solution to restore the failed SaaS
product to a functional state.
Imagine if it were possible to
automate and unify the entire
enterprise backup infrastructure, no
matter the complexity or size, and
make it impervious to cyber-attacks.
That’s what Cobalt Iron’s Compass
software does for enterprises today.
The need for cyber-secure
SaaS cloud backup software
— How did Cobalt Iron
create a solution for a
burgeoning problem?
After consulting with large
enterprises for many years about
their data protection infrastructures,
Cobalt Iron observed that many
data and IT professionals were
burdened with operating and
maintaining incredibly complex
and even outdated data protection
technologies. These technologies
were often cobbled-together backup
infrastructures that had evolved
over many years with legacy backup
products. These managers had to
maintain the operating system
and the applications themselves,
not just one but many, because
they use different backup products
for different applications. These
managers were also in charge of the
duct tape and baling wire needed
to get all of it to work together.
They focused so much time just
making it work that data security
was an afterthought. And these
complexities opened the enterprise
up to all sorts of exposure.
Then COVID-19 urged businesses
to adapt to a new normal:
working from home. Many
companies accelerated their
digital transformation efforts.
However, this rapid shift toward
the digital realm became even more
challenging to safeguard mission-
critical data. The reputational,
operational, legal, and compliance
implications could be huge if cyber
threats were neglected. So the onus
was still on backup administrators
— even if they were working from
home — to protect data from
cybercriminals and guarantee
effective deployment, operation,
and administration of backup
systems.
Cobalt Iron and Compass were
born to remedy the repeated
failures, high costs, increasing
product complexities, spiraling
data growth, and growing need
to protect enterprise data beyond
essential backup and restoration.
What Is Compass? The
revolutionary SaaS cloud-
based data backup software
Compass is an enterprise-
scale data protection software
delivered as a service (SaaS). The
software automates and optimizes
backup functions, infrastructure,
orchestration activities, and
software currency for organizations.
Compass supports various cloud
providers — including Alibaba,
Amazon, Azure, Google, and
IBM Cloud — for different cloud
use cases. Compass scales to
petabytes of data in data centers
or across thousands of locations.
Furthermore, Compass automates
daily operations, allowing
customers to run backup servers
across hundreds or thousands
of locations with relative ease.
Compass also provides end-user
self-service to enroll, review,
and monitor backups.
The Compass data protection
platform delivers the highest levels
of security in a simple-to-deploy
and easy-to-manage solution,
ensuring that data will be available
when and where it is needed.
7. The man behind the revolution of SaaS-based
data backup and recovery
Richard Spurlock is the CEO and Founder of Cobalt Iron. He is
an intellectually curious entrepreneur; Richard is recognized as
a global expert on data protection and recovery. After 15 years
of designing and delivering the world’s most extensive data
protection applications, Richard harnessed that expertise to build
a disruptive, software-defined data protection solution: Compass.
An experienced speaker and subject matter expert, Richard is a
frequent industry spokesman and – along with his family – an avid
Formula 1 racing fan. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the University of Kansas.
The Compass approach provides
simplicity, operational automation,
and secure deployment and
maintenance of components.
Compass’ robust workflow
integration results in backup
operations that are securely
consolidated within the enterprise’s
IT operations — a characteristic
that also delivers higher levels of
visibility for the backup procedures.
Compass’ Ace in the Hole
– Providing real-time
cybersecurity for cloud-based
data backup solutions
One of Compass’ biggest
differentiators from its competitors
is built-in security. Compass Cyber
Shield technology, included in every
deployment at no extra charge,
offers customers incomparable
security features by design.
Compass protects the entire
backup infrastructure and data
with robust features such as:
• Built-in containment and
immutability
• Extensive auditing and data
governance
• Powerful multitenant, role-based
access controls
• Backup domains isolated from
production domains for safe
recovery
The Compass solution protects
backup data and operations
by restricting access to the
backup infrastructure. No user or
administrator logins exist for the
backup server, operating system,
backup software, or storage. All
management is handled by policy
and channeled through the Compass
Commander user interface. This
approach eliminates nearly all
cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the
complex backup estate. Backup
containment and isolation by
design secure the backup data
against unauthorized access
during Compass’ lifecycle.
Compass also adds extensive
ransomware monitoring and
analytics, which bring additional
security benefits such as:
• Elimination of common backup
attack points
• Continual software-enabled
problem detection and
predictive problem avoidance
• Data content inspection features
to ensure the absence of
ransomware in the backup data
• Ransomware analytics for
continuous cyber-readiness
Additionally, using analytics,
Compass constantly monitors and
analyzes metrics, conditions, and
events associated with backup
infrastructure, operations, and
environment, continually looking
for indications of ransomware or
other security attacks. Thanks to
Cobalt Iron’s patented techniques,
many of the analytics are internally
optimizing, meaning Compass can
adjust itself based on the conditions,
behaviors, and events it detects
across the entire Compass universe.
The Compass data-protection
platform delivers the highest
levels of security in a simple
to deploy and easy to manage
solution, ensuring enterprises
that data will be available when
and where it is needed.
Eliminate ransomware threats with
Compass Cyber Shield™
“
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Richard Spurlock, CEO & Founder
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7 | June -2022
8. W
ith ColorTokens, your
business is resilient
to cyber threats,
each critical asset
completely secure, assured against
any misadventure from anywhere.
Their Zero Trust approach to
security gives their customers
comfort and confidence of fully
protected cloud workloads, dynamic
applications, endpoints and users.
Cyberthreats are getting bolder with
every breach. Dynamic data centres,
distributed workloads, vulnerable
endpoints and complex application
landscape expose organizations
to malicious intents. Digital
transformation and journey to cloud
need the vigilance and alacrity of
zero trust security.
Your business is secure with the
organization’s solutions that
identify and eliminate uncertainty
in enforcing security rules in an
increasingly complex digital world.
The shift from the “trust but verify”
to “never trust, always verify” security
model is inevitable for impregnable
cybersecurity. The legacy “castle and
moat” approach to cyber defense
is redundant for enterprises on
the growth path with cloud-first
initiatives.
With ColorTokens, the Zero
Trust journey is smooth
sailing
ColorTokens simplifies, accelerates
and automates your security
operations with their award-
winning Xtended Zero Trust
Platform. ColorTokens unique Zero
Trust approach gives you 360°
visualization, micro-segmentation
and complete enforcement of your
environment within weeks, not
months. From data centers to hybrid
to multi-cloud to applications,
users and devices, they quickly
defend you against ransomware,
unauthorized lateral movement
and zero-day attacks. ColorTokens
platform integrates smoothly with
your existing security tools and
ensures that absolutely nothing is
left to chance.
Secure Access to Cloud
Workloads and Services
Enterprises migrating to the cloud
have applications and workloads
with services and infrastructure
distributed across public clouds,
VPCs, campuses and/or data centers.
Remote and local IT administrators
and contract personnel need secure
access to critical applications
and infrastructure services with
separation of duties per application,
workload segment or service.
Applications and workload segments
can span multi-cloud or hybrid cloud
infrastructure environment. Using
traditional VPNs is cumbersome and
expensive.
Xaccess enables IT admin, whether
employees or contractors, with
secure access to distributed
applications and infrastructure
across any cloud or data center with
zero complexity deployment and
operations.
Zero Trust access to workload
segments
Xaccess provides Zero-Trust
based access to remote workload
segments, services and infrastructure
across any cloud, hybrid cloud or
data center with zero complexity
deployment and operations. Xaccess
integrates seamlessly with Xshield
to enable secure remote access
with automated policy enforcement
to dynamic workloads including
Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure
services, S3 buckets and other cloud
services.
Crown Jewels Security for
Hybrid Environments
Enterprises migrating to the cloud
have assets distributed across
hybrid environments. These assets
could range across a bare-metal
server, an end-user computer, or
a cloud-hosted virtual machine,
container, or instance. Enterprises
need a platform-agnostic, easy-to-
deploy solution that prevents lateral
movement and contains breaches
in an environment with no defined
perimeter.
ColorTokens Xshield’s zero trust
solution is a cloud-delivered,
vendor-agnostic security solution
for hybrid networks that is
simple to implement. It provides
comprehensive visibility into
network traffic and deployed
assets, while preventing breaches
and unauthorized East-West
movement. Xshield delivers
360-degree visibility and
network flow analysis identifying
vulnerabilities and dependencies
between applications, servers, and
databases. With just a few clicks,
it creates zero trust secure zones
(micro-perimeters) around critical
assets with least-privilege policies
to enable a zero trust micro-
segmentation solution.
ColorTokens Inc.: Simplify, accelerate and
automate microsegmentation and Zero Trust
cybersecurity for all enterprises, legacy to cloud
9. Ransomware Prevention
WannaCry ransomware infected
more than 230,000 machines in
2017, causing over $4 billion in
losses. Between 2018 and 2019,
the number of malware strains
grew by nearly 50%. Since then,
newer ransomware groups — such
as GandCrab, Maze, REvil, and
Ryuk — caused enormous
disruptions and earned large
ransoms. Enterprises need to
detect and stop ransomware attacks
from becoming large-scale security
breaches that impact their finances
and reputation.
Based on zero trust architecture,
ColorTokens delivers real-time
protection against ransomware,
preventing it from spreading within
a network. The solution reduces
the attack surface, prevents lateral
spread, and stops a ransomware
attack efficiently. It does all this
by visualizing, intervening, and
blocking unauthorized and malicious
behavior during the ransomware
attack phases.
Curb Ransomware with
Multi-Layer Protection
ColorTokens leverages process-level
intelligence to analyze parent-child
processes. This analysis can stop
suspicious application behavior,
Nitin Mehta, Co-Founder & Executive
Chairman
Dr. Nitin Mehta is an accomplished entrepreneur, technology
leader, and philanthropist. Dr. Mehta was the first venture
capitalist of Indian origin in Silicon Valley, investing in numerous
successful technology start-ups. In addition to his role as CEO of
ColorTokens, Dr. Mehta is currently the Chairman of Compex
Legal Services as well as a member of Shipcom Wireless’ Board
of Directors. Dr. Mehta previously served on the boards of
organizations like Viking River Cruises, Retrotope, Quisic.
com, eMBA, the Indus Entrepreneurs, TiE, Fort Mason Center
Foundation, and the San Francisco Zoo. Dr. Mehta was also
a General Partner of Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners,
a $10 billion investment and venture capital firm, and a
management consultant with McKinsey & Company.
Nitin Mehta, Co-Founder
& Executive Chairman
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