Secure Islands, a privately held Israeli computer security company, opened its US HQ earlier this year in New York City. The company is confident in repeating the success it has enjoyed in Europe, here in US enterprise security markets, with its approach to data protection.
Its technology automatically classifies and if required, encrypts sensitive data upon creation, as opposed to when it leaves the organization, which is traditionally how encryption has been managed.
This process, which it calls “Data Immunization," enables organizations to set classification polices which are automatically applied when a file or email is created. If encryption is required, the protection stays with the data wherever it ends up. This way, if it is stolen, no one can read the data except the intended readers.
I recently spoke with Aki Eldar, co-founder and CEO of Secure Islands. Here are some of my notes: