Post Industry Event POV: It’s Clear Customers Are Fed Up with New Security “Add-Ons”

BOHH Labs VP of Business shares his thoughts on BOHH's attendance at the GDS Security Summit.

Last week BOHH Labs attended GDS’s Security Summit in Atlanta, GA.  The summit was well attended with CISO’s and VP’s of Security from global enterprise accounts in the finance, healthcare, manufacturing sectors etc.

It was evident that global enterprise accounts across all market sectors are looking for innovative ways of protecting their critical business and data assets.  The desire to move from data center to cloud is prevalent and often cost driven but mitigating the risk of data breaches is the main obstacle to be overcome by organizations. Additionally, as part of the discussion on security challenges, there is an increasing need to avoid further data breaches and meet new compliance regulations as Friday May 25, 2018 is fast approaching when the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes effective and impacts all global customers with European Union (EU) member customers.

One thing was made very clear: Companies and customers have been searching for new solutions and are keen to avoid buying another security solution that is layered on existing security investments. They are fed up with the security industry “add-ons” for promised enhanced security. The same old vendors are promising new and exciting solutions to protect companies and their data, yet time after time major breaches keep happening.

BOHH Labs was honored to take part in this industry discussion and present its new solution to help address the security challenges plaguing customers and organizations alike. We were delighted with the reaction to our new Secure Storage as a Service (SSaaS), which enables companies to protect compliant and confidential data fields while importantly enabling analytical insights to be gained without the risk of a data breach.

We demonstrated our service on a cloud platform to highlight how our solution is platform agnostic and show how compliant plus non-compliant data residing in a Hadoop data platform could be searched for analytical insights and the compliant data (i.e. PII, PHI) fields only being accessed by authorized users.

Seldom has the BOHH Labs team comprising of Simon Bain – CEO, Ken Hawkins – CTO and Alan Jamieson – VP Business Development seen such a positive and enthusiastic reaction to new technology.  Perhaps it was showing the Secure Storage as a Service working on a cloud platform and accessing data in a Hadoop data platform that validated how powerful and importantly how relevant our service is?  We left the summit upbeat with our message and solution resonating with most of the
conference attendees.

All in all it was a great industry event and if you want proof and to learn more, contact us and we will be happy to place a POC on your storage system, to show how we secure, scale and enable easy access to your valuable information stores.