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Coronavirus Outbreak: Data Breach Risk Higher Than Ever

With the rampant spread of coronavirus worldwide, the business landscape is having to change to protect ourselves from any further spread. Employees are being encouraged to work from home if possible, classified conversations are becoming video calls and important data is being managed on potentially unsecured clouds and devices.  As a result of these changes, the risk of data breaches is growing as businesses are struggling to monitor and ensure the security of their employees’ activity.

In these times, it is important that proper data protection etiquette is not lost on businesses as the impacts of a data breach are still damaging during an epidemic. Regulatory fines and loss of consumer trust can still cripple companies who lose focus on maintaining strict data security.

With traditional, hardware-based encryption techniques, implementing data protection outside of the office is a logistical nightmare due to the complexity it involves.  Employees working from home require access to potentially sensitive business data, which provides a greater surface area with more points of access for hackers to attack, making it easier to steal sensitive data from unaware companies.

This is where Randtronics’ software-based DPM solution can assist businesses looking to implement flexible data security options throughout the coronavirus epidemic.  To ease the burden of trying to protect both employees and sensitive data, we are now offering 6 and 12 month DPM packages for companies trying to maintain adequate data security through this difficult time.

To protect your company’s data during the epidemic, proper encryption of employee laptops, servers, clouds, internet facing applications, databases and containers is required to ensure home offices will not compromise data security. Using Randtronics DPM’s encryption in combination with firm data handling policies can protect businesses from data breaches.

Here at Randtronics, we recognise the greater risk of a data breach at this time, but do not recommend any company ignore advice to prevent the spreading of coronavirus.  The health of the general population should be the number one priority at all times.

To ensure your company’s data is secure and prevent the risk of fines, contact us as soon as possible!

Letter from the CEO

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Thank you for visiting the Randtronics website.

We make enterprise encryption easy.

Smart businesses already know that only encryption can reduce the attack surface and stop the hackers from stealing their sensitive data. A company that only uses encryption is more secure than a company with all other cyber security measures. Privacy standards such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR are all mandating in law the protection of the citizen’s personal data. Fines for breaches are huge. You won’t get fined if your firewall is hacked. You won’t get fined if you suffer a virus or ransomware attack. You WILL get fined if you lose ANY personal data pertaining to ANY citizen. The lowest common denominator is the DATA. Data that is “Encrypted” is out of the scope of the Law.

Whilst all understand the need to protect sensitive data holistically (such as NIST Cyber Security Framework or 12 prescriptive PCI DSS guidelines) their cyber security priorities are misguided to say easy aspects and not addressing “what happens” when these fail? Encryption of data is the only direct protection measure that renders data unreadable compared to upgrading firewalls or virus and malware, IPS, log monitoring, etc. I am saying you need all methods but unless you have implemented enterprise grade encryption you are still unprotected like driving a car without “seatbelts”. “Enterprise grade encryption” as a cyber measure is the “seat belt” that saves lives in car accidents. Industry experts predict a relentless continuation of data breaches this year and penetration testing have proven perimeter defense is easily penetrable.

Randtronics has taken the challenge to make encryption easy and is innovating in many areas. We have already reduced deployment effort to days, use familiar standard components so that less skilled people can deploy and maintain systems.
I welcome discussions via email or phone as through your feedback we will be challenged to continue to innovate to the point where businesses and users do not need to be intimidated when using encryption as the worlds most powerful tool to protect their sensitive data.

Experts predict data breaches will continue at relentless pace, let Randtronics secure your business with “Enterprise grade ubiquitous encryption technology”. Time is of the essence. Why not be pro-active? I invite you to let Randtronics and its global distributors and resellers assess and assist your business directly.

Yours sincerely,
Bob K Adhar, BE, MBA, CISSP
Founder and CEO