In our last post, we outlined an IoT scenario to highlight how BOHH’s solution can not only fit in to a real-life business operation workflow, but also improve the security, transport and access of data. Today, we will address an area that often gets overlooked in our era of nonstop attacks and breaches - the ease of implementation when integrating a new cyber security tool into your existing infrastructure network.
As cybersecurity continues to be top of mind for organizations and its executives, most of the conversation has surrounded how to keep information safe from threats and hackers and which cybersecurity solution will be used; while these are important aspects to consider, there is often not as much attention given to how cybersecurity products will actually fit in to a company’s network and infrastructure.
It is important to note that when companies are ready to introduce a new security solution or product in to their network, research and pricing estimates need to be considered on the entire network system, not just the product. Some of the questions that need be researched and answered include:
- Our company has already invested heavily in other solutions, will this make those investments useless?
- Do I need to overhaul my infrastructure to integrate this new product?
- Will I need to bring in additional equipment and/or staff to integrate this product?
- Will this create downtime and pause workflow to put this product into my system? Will that take days? Weeks? Months?
- Will this new product have legacy issues?
By not addressing these considerations ahead of time, companies are at risk of losing business productivity – both time and money.
At BOHH Labs, we believe that enhanced security should not come at the expense of enterprise productivity.
As a software and infrastructure agnostic appliance, BOHH’s security solution is easily deployed on top of the existing enterprise system between the infrastructure and firewall to protect data without impacting performance or hindering the core role of the system it defends. Because our solution leverages existing infrastructure investments, we enable companies to maximize ROI, and eliminate overhaul of the infrastructure, overhead in terms of equipment or staff, and downtime to implement or lag time on the disparate underlying system, which reduces disruption to business production and workflow. Additionally, our solution allows companies to rapidly upgrade existing legacy infrastructure to provide secure cloud services without loss of security, access or speed as there is no need for data migration.
In fact, once the application is implemented, there is no other work needed to keep it running and protecting your data or future upgrades. This means zero compromise to
By ensuring easy implementation of our solution, we help reduce both direct and indirect costs resulting from business disruption, as well as financial loss due to downtime or disruption to customer accessibility and experience. Additionally depending on the security solution deployed we can help meet Regulatory Compliance such as elements of GDPR.
Now that we’ve taken a deeper dive into how BOHH’s solution can seamlessly fit in to existing infrastructures enabling businesses to enhance productivity and maximize ROI, come back next Tuesday to address a situation a majority of companies are facing: how to comply with GDPR regulations and integrate news tools to meet the data security requirements. We will address how BOHH Labs’ security solution can help organizations successfully address GDPR requirements.
In our last post, we talked about the philosophy behind our security approach. We believe actions speak louder than words, so today, we will offer a closer look at how our solution works in action and set the scene for a real-life example of how our security can fit in to today’s business operations.
Using a sample manufacturing IoT example below, we will show how BOHH enables users to search securely across multiple databases and repositories using voice and text commands to find information quickly, enhancing workflow and saving time and money.
Combining our BOHH Labs Secure Federated Search application with our Secure BOHH(T) Bot application, running through SAP HANA Express and Google Cloud Platform, we will show how users can not only find data and documents in a secure way off their cloud services, but also to ask the devices they are working on to find and return specific information they are looking for in real-time.
The IoT Manufacturing Scenario
For this scenario, we are using an engineer, Bobby, going on a monthly maintenance visit to an oilrig in the Gulf of Mexico to perform maintenance on a mechanical device using a hand-held device from Samsung that allows him hands-free ability to access all the data needed to deliver maintenance on a device that needs service in real-time. Previously Bobby used a ruggedized laptop or tablet which needed space to open and sit securely on his maintenance visit which is often in an area with confined/limited space.
- Before starting the maintenance service, Bobby connects to the BOHH Labs application onsite at the oilrig, and using the equipment serial number, asks BOHH to find a drawing of the equipment document repository so he can see the exact location of the part that needs service, as well as the data from the last person who serviced the part and what service was completed.
- BOHH securely accesses the maintenance databases, the sensor database, stock inventory etc. in real-time and returns the requested data to Bobby using a patented encryption method and AI technology to manage ports, maintain a secure connection and interact with the user’s requests.
- Now that Bobby has received repository doc to know exactly where the part is located and what service has been previously done to it, Bobby can begin his maintenance check. He can also continue to ask BOHH to connect him with information needed throughout the servicing of the device until it is completed.
- After the servicing is completed, Bobby communicates with the BOHH application and provides an update on what service he did, which automatically goes back into the database to record the service.
- Based on the work he performed, Bobby also orders a replacement part directly through the stock inventory app while onsite for pick up at the local depot, avoiding future wasted maintenance visits elsewhere.
Using BOHH, Bobby does all of this in real-time – eliminating time wasted looking for data before and at the site. More importantly, because parts are ordered pro-actively, BOHH enables the oilrig to minimize business disruption through lost production time.
This example highlights how BOHH can streamline tasks that require real-time data access and streamline workflow without the worry of third-party intervention and hacking, time-wasted looking for data or even loss of data all together.
BOHH was recently announced as a winner of the Intelligent App Challenge, sponsored by SAP & Google Cloud, based on our secure voice-activated search solution documented above.
To see a demo of the above scenario on how BOHH Labs’ app works, click here.
This week we are attending and participating in SAP TechEd 2017, and we will be offering demos throughout the event. If you would like to learn more on how our technology works, you can also visit us at www.bohh.io for more information.
Now that we’ve taken a deeper dive into how BOHH’s solution can not only fit into a real-life business operation workflow, but also improve the security, transport and access of data, check back in next Tuesday to learn more on how BOHH enhances productivity with ease of implementation.
At BOHH Labs, we are excited to announce that our secure app solution was selected as a winner of the Intelligent App Challenge, sponsored by SAP & Google Cloud. We are honored to be selected from hundreds of challenge registrants and recognized for our emerging solution that is based on some of today’s most innovative technologies including the use of SAP HANA Express Edition, Google Cloud Platform, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and encryption to address the security of data transport and access for Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) streamline workflows.
As part of our submission for the Intelligent App Challenge, we demonstrated how our app enables users to search securely across multiple databases and repositories using voice and text commands to find information quickly in real-time.
We combined our BOHH Labs Secure Federated Search application with our Secure BOHH(T) Bot application, running through SAP HANA and Google Cloud Platform, to enable users to not only find data and documents in a secure way off their cloud services (in this case Google Drive), but also to ask the devices they are working on to find and return specific information they are looking for in real-time.
For the challenge, we highlighted how our technology works using an IoT scenario for maintenance on a mechanical device using a hand-held device from Samsung that allows an engineer hands-free ability to access all the data needed to deliver maintenance on a device that needs service in real-time. Before starting the maintenance service, the engineer onsite connects to the BOHH Labs application and asks BOHH to find a drawing of the equipment document repository so he can see the exact location of the part that needs service, as well as the data from the last person who serviced the part and what service was completed. BOHH securely accesses the maintenance databases, the sensor database, stock inventory etc. in real-time and returns the requested data using a patented encryption method and AI technology to manage ports, maintain a secure connection and interact with user requests.
The engineer can continue to ask BOHH to connect him with information needed throughout the servicing of the device until it is completed. After the servicing is completed, the engineer can communicate with the BOHH application and provide an update on what service he did and it will automatically go directly back into the database to record the service.
This example highlights how BOHH can streamline tasks that require real-time data access and streamline workflow without the worry of third-party intervention and hacking, time-wasted looking for data or even loss of data all together. To see a demo of the above scenario on how BOHH Labs’ app works, click here.
If you like to learn more about BOHH labs, we are attending and participating in SAP TechEd 2017 and look forward to speaking to you more on how our technology works. You can also visit us at www.bohh.io for more information.
Last week in our first installment of the BOHH Breakdown, we talked about the increasingly complex world of cyber warfare and outlined the need for the industry to rethink the entire approach to protecting data. Today, we will be addressing how and why BOHH Labs is the next step in securing your organizations’ data and networks and to mitigate the new wave of cyber warfare, while still enabling business productivity and innovation to flourish.
Based on customer demand, business is continually moving towards offering on-demand and digital services, which is enabling trusted interactions between human entities (individuals, communities, enterprises and governments) over multiple channels (mobile networks, the Internet, call centers, face-to-face and others). However, as we discussed last week, the sheer number of methods deployed to carry out cyberattacks, their complex nature, sophistication, and evolving character have made it difficult for institutions to stay protected and keep company and customer data safe across all these channels. Add in the fact that most organizations are adopting digital strategies to increase business productivity while meeting consumer demands, and this leaves most companies in a catch 22 and constant battle for the balance between security, productivity and innovation.
Here enters BOHH Labs. We offer a suite of patented and proven solutions that enable organizations to help minimize risk and disruption to business and innovation.
Security:
BOHH Labs’ security solution was built on making data privacy a priority. Our approach to security is to become more dynamic within the existing system and protect data from within. Our security approach focuses on on-premise and Cloud data security, as well as ensuring the secure transport of data in real-time. We do this using unique encryption algorithms and our own AI security platform that acts as a first line of defense against internal and external intrusion. We encrypt all data in real-time, but only providing access to data to authorized parties. Unlike other security solutions, even in the unlikely event of an unauthorized user accessing data, data protected by BOHH Labs is rendered unusable for that actor. Our patented, unique encryption algorithms are proven to secure with no key store or data storage, enabling us to help organizations mitigate data breaches and any associated penalties. In future blogs, we will address further how our technology protects data in on-premise databases, as well as with interaction on all Cloud, mobile and IoT devices.
Productivity:
While we believe it is invaluable to keep data protected, it also serves no benefit to keep it protected if it is not accessible. BOHH Labs offers a patented, secure federated search that provides users the ability to access data and content securely from anywhere, while still fully encrypted with document-level encryption at rest and in transit for storage and sharing on any device or desktop. Our search enables that one request performs a simultaneous search of your desktop, email, cloud stores and databases in real-time to return results in under a millisecond. This eliminates the worry of third-party intervention and hacking, time-wasted looking for data or even loss of data all together.
Innovation:
Today’s customers demand voice access to their data, rather than simply browsing services to integrate with their digitally connected lives both at work and home. However, with these voice-activated digital services as the primary access channels for users, comes an increased threat for cyberattacks. Built on our security approach outlined above, BOHH offers companies a level of flexibility that enables innovation through our unique Secure BOHH Bot. Our bot is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) voice and messaging interface that delivers seamless and secure transaction of all incoming and outgoing customer data requests in real-time without compromising performance, customer experience or customer accessibility. This allows companies to provide a safe and secure method to offer digital services to their connected customers and enable them 24/7 communication regarding their account information from anywhere on any device.
The balance and business decision-making between security, productivity, and innovation is becoming increasingly challenging for organizations in 2017. With the BOHH Labs suite of solutions, we can help companies minimize business risk and disruption while innovating secure digital products for their customers.
Now that we’ve addressed how BOHH Labs enables organizations to prioritize security without jeopardizing innovation, come back next Tuesday, when we will take a deeper dive into BOHH’s security and the philosophy behind our approach.
