CIO Review Top 100 Most Promising 2014
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The Navigator for Enterprise Solutions CIOREVIEW.COM AUGUST - 2014 100 Most Promising Technology Companies E ntrepreneurs across the globe are regarded as key drivers of economic and social progress. The current scenario has evolved and carries quite a lot of untapped potential, which if utilized strategically would result in successful outcomes. The evolution of technology has led to fundamental changes in the way organizations used to function. With the urgent need to adapt to these technologies, organizations worldwide are forced to deviate from the conventional ways of doing business. Along with incorporating new technologies, business leaders have to tackle the centuries-old challenges of limited budget, finding the right strategies, hiring and retaining talent and others. In short, current entrepreneurs have the tough task to take an organization through these challenging times, which require out-of-the box strategies. However, it should be noted that these challenges are potential opportunities in disguise. For instance, the emergence of cloud, big data, mobile, Internet of Things and other technologies have been instrumental in enhancing business growth at all levels. The global economic dynamic calls for strategic use of these technologies to maintain an edge over others in the highly competitive world. Therefore, the focus should be on unearthing the potential hidden in these challenges. In order to help enterprises across the globe gain useful insights into the latest technologies, keeping pace with these trends, the critical challenges, overcoming these roadblocks, future-oriented approach and other vital aspects on running an enterprise, CIOReview presents the ‘CIOReview 100’. This is an annual honor for the best 100 technology companies in the U.S. To address the burning need of CIOs to find cost-effective and flexible solutions, the CIOReview100 list brings successful companies together at one place. These companies have gained momentum, beating the current challenges, and would be sharing helpful information on how they achieved it. A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, Analysts and CIOReview editorial board scrutinized several companies to finalize the 100 best technology companies. Ci Editor-in- h ef - An annual listing of CIO Review100 - 2014 represents not only the glory of 100 high value Technology companies in U.S. but also recognizes companies impacting the marketplace. iScan Online 100 Most Promising TechnologyCompanies in Christo Jacob Managing Editor recognized by Magazine as Company: iScan Online Key Person: Carl Banzhof, CEO & Co-founder Description: A provider of breach pre- vention platform Website: www.iscanonline.com O ne of the reasons organizations don’t have a clearer view on the sensitive data storage combined with the security threats and vulnerabilities is because of the staggering 950 million data breaches recorded since 2013. Giving customers the ability to prioritize and act on these at risk endpoints is critical to being able to prevent a data breach before it happens. And this is exactly what a Texas based firm has been doing over the past two years since its inception. iScan Online, founded in 2012 with its cloud based data breach prevention platform has been enabling organizations to identify potential data breaches before they even occur. The combined intelligence driven platform identifies unprotected sensitive data at rest along with the security threats and vulnerabilities that affect the host where the data is stored. Along with the vulnerabilities and breach risk count by host, the combined intelligence also helps organizations to visualize and calculate the potential liability in dollars for each endpoint at risk, thus facilitating remediation by taking action on a priority basis. A Pioneer in The Data Breach Prevention Space In most data breach attacks, data at rest is left exposed on critical endpoints and thus has become an open gateway for attackers. Many companies have tried to address the threat of a data breach with various legacy tools such as vulnerability assessments and DLP products only failing to prevent such attacks. iScan Online stands apart from the others through innovation , ease of management and by defining and delivering technology that meets the Data breach prevention Lifecycle. This product clearly places iScan Online as the pioneers in the data breach prevention space. The firm’s data breach prevention platform offers to be of great service with its highly scalable cloud infrastructure and multi-tenant features. With the powerful iScan cloud console, organizations can now gain instant view into the potential risk of a data breach and manage one to one million endpoints effortlessly. Its host based iScan Online: Winning the War on Data Breaches By Benita M technology helps inspect the critical endpoints of the unprotected data at rest and of the security threats and can be deployed using any existing systems management, software distribution or remote monitoring and management tools along with web application, Wi-Fi access points or VPN connections. The Compatibility iScan Online Data Breach Prevention Platform currently supports Windows Desktop - Windows XP to Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003 to Server 2012, Mac OS X - 10.6 and higher, Ubuntu Linux - 12.04 and higher, Redhat Linux - RHEL 5 and higher, Centos Linux - 5.x and higher, Apple iOS - 5.1 and higher, Android - 2.3 and higher endpoints. The firm has found early success in the Retail and Healthcare sector with some of its biggest clients include Hilton Hotels, UPMC, and Applebee’s. On the future roadmap from the words of Carl Banzhof, CEO, iScan Online, “We look to expand our foot print into mid-size and enterprise accounts and continue to expand our product offerings to include services that compliment and extend the data breach prevention lifecycle”. Carl Banzhof, CEO With iScan cloud console, organizations can gain instant view into the potential risk of a data breach
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One of the reasons organizations don’t have a clearer view on the sensitive data storage combined with the security threats and vulnerabilities is because of the staggering 950 million data breaches recorded since 2013. Giving customers the ability to prioritize and act on these at risk endpoints is critical to being able to prevent a data breach before it happens.
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CIOREVIEW.COMAUGUST - 2014
100 Most Promising Technology CompaniesEntrepreneurs across the globe are regarded as key drivers
of economic and social progress. The current scenario has evolved and carries quite a lot of untapped potential, which if utilized strategically would result in successful outcomes. The evolution of technology has led to fundamental changes in the way organizations used to function. With the urgent need to adapt to these technologies, organizations worldwide are forced to deviate from the conventional ways of doing business. Along with incorporating new technologies, business leaders have to tackle the centuries-old challenges of limited budget, finding the right strategies, hiring and retaining talent and others. In short, current entrepreneurs have the tough task to take an organization through these challenging times, which require out-of-the box strategies.
However, it should be noted that these challenges are potential opportunities in disguise. For instance, the emergence of cloud, big data, mobile, Internet of Things and other technologies have been instrumental in enhancing business growth at all levels. The global economic dynamic
calls for strategic use of these technologies to maintain an edge over others in the highly competitive world. Therefore, the focus should be on unearthing the potential hidden in these challenges.
In order to help enterprises across the globe gain useful insights into the latest technologies, keeping pace with these trends, the critical challenges, overcoming these roadblocks, future-oriented approach and other vital aspects on running an enterprise, CIOReview presents the ‘CIOReview 100’. This is an annual honor for the best 100 technology companies in the U.S.
To address the burning need of CIOs to find cost-effective and flexible solutions, the CIOReview100 list brings successful companies together at one place. These companies have gained momentum, beating the current challenges, and would be sharing helpful information on how they achieved it. A distinguished panel comprising of CEOs, CIOs, Analysts and CIOReview editorial board scrutinized several companies to finalize the 100 best technology companies.
C iEditor-in- h ef-
An annual listing of CIO Review100 - 2014 represents not only the glory of 100 high value Technology companies in U.S.
but also recognizes companies impacting the marketplace.
iScan Online
100 Most Promising TechnologyCompanies in
Christo JacobManaging Editor
recognized by Magazine as
Company:iScan Online
Key Person:Carl Banzhof, CEO & Co-founder
Description:A provider of breach pre-vention platform
Website: www.iscanonline.com
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One of the reasons organizations don’t have a clearer view on the sensitive data storage combined with the security threats and vulnerabilities is because of the staggering 950 million
data breaches recorded since 2013. Giving customers the ability to prioritize and act on these at risk endpoints is critical to being able to prevent a data breach before it happens.
And this is exactly what a Texas based firm has been doing over the past two years since its inception. iScan Online, founded in 2012 with its cloud based data breach prevention platform has been enabling organizations to identify potential data breaches before they even occur. The combined intelligence driven platform identifies unprotected sensitive data at rest along with the security threats and vulnerabilities that affect the host where the data is stored. Along with the vulnerabilities and breach risk count by host, the combined intelligence also helps organizations to visualize and calculate the potential liability in dollars for each endpoint at risk, thus facilitating remediation by taking action on a priority basis.
A Pioneer in The Data Breach Prevention SpaceIn most data breach attacks, data at rest is left exposed on critical endpoints and thus has become an open gateway for attackers. Many companies have tried to address the threat of a data breach with various legacy tools such as vulnerability assessments and DLP products only failing to prevent such attacks. iScan Online stands apart from the others through innovation , ease of management and by defining and delivering technology that meets the Data breach prevention Lifecycle. This product clearly places iScan Online as the pioneers in the data breach prevention space.
The firm’s data breach prevention platform offers to be of great
service with its highly scalable cloud infrastructure and multi-tenant features. With the powerful iScan cloud console, organizations can now gain instant view into the potential risk of a data breach and manage one to one million endpoints effortlessly. Its host based
iScan Online: Winning the War on Data BreachesBy Benita M
technology helps inspect the critical endpoints of the unprotected data at rest and of the security threats and can be deployed using any existing systems management, software distribution or remote monitoring and management tools along with web application, Wi-Fi access points or VPN connections.
The CompatibilityiScan Online Data Breach Prevention Platform currently supports Windows Desktop - Windows XP to Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003 to Server 2012, Mac OS X - 10.6 and higher, Ubuntu Linux - 12.04 and higher, Redhat Linux - RHEL 5 and higher, Centos Linux - 5.x and higher, Apple iOS - 5.1 and higher, Android - 2.3 and higher endpoints.
The firm has found early success in the Retail
and Healthcare sector with some of its biggest clients include Hilton Hotels, UPMC, and Applebee’s. On the future roadmap from the words of Carl Banzhof, CEO, iScan Online, “We look to expand our foot print into mid-size and enterprise accounts and continue to expand our product offerings to include services that compliment and extend the data breach prevention lifecycle”.
Carl Banzhof, CEO
With iScan cloud console, organizations can gain instant view into the potential risk of a data breach
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