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Data Security

STASH® provides secure creation of, access to, and sharing of unstructured data. It delivers secure interactive access to data, secure long-term storage, archiving, and preservation of data, auditing and reporting, and document management features. STASH® is secure and resilient data wrapped in granular access control of that data. It is the first and only comprehensive data compromise solution of its kind.

Organizations are facing increasing external cyber-attacks as well as insider threats. Criminals, nation state actors, and even interested commercial parties are attracted to the crown-jewel types of data with which enterprises are often entrusted.

Even sophisticated firms can be hacked with devastating impact on their reputations, customers, partners, and value. The consequences of breach can deeply compromise large organizations and destroy smaller ones with massive financial and even political consequences. Organizations that hold intellectual property, merger and acquisition, commodity investment, contract negotiations, proprietary trade secrets market deals, and other sensitive data are phenomenally attractive.

Local and Federal government are under “near-constant attack”. The unauthorized access or loss of law enforcement data due to a cyberattack has serious operational and privacy implications. The importance of cybersecurity needs to be considered from multiple perspectives—those of employees, community members, crime victims, witnesses, informants, and prosecutors. A cyberattack could compromise an organization’s or an agency’s ability to conduct business, protect life and maintain order, thus eroding trust and credibility.

Every organization of any kind has a supply chain of internal and external partners, vendors, materials, transport, manufacturing, quality control, data exchange, equipment, information flow, and dozens of other functions. Your company may have a cyber-security risk strategy but what about your key suppliers that have access to your systems?

Or a niche company supplying vital goods or services that has access to important information and an immature approach to data security. The next problem is your suppliers’ suppliers. Poor information security practices by lower-tier suppliers can sink companies. it is estimated that over 1/3 of corporate IT breaches are via third-party suppliers.

The use of third parties means that businesses rely on systems and data over which they don’t have complete control, making them even more susceptible to a cyber event. When STASH® is deployed, low value data security and control tactics can be jettisoned, and granular control of data access and security is in the hands of the organization. Even STASH® doesn’t have access.

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Proactive Eradication of Data Compromise & Granular Data Management at the Data Byte Level. Defensive Security Options Can’t Do This. They Weren’t Built To.

1-Click Ransomless Data Recovery Solution

No matter when, how, where, or how many times your organization is seized by a malicious actor for ransom, your data is completely recoverable in real-time by date, time, and by versions. Restore it all or cherry-pick your options. Click the submit button and your system data is restored. Circumvent ransom payments, business downtime, and bad publicity completely.

Ransomware will continue to be the most common form of cyberattack with tactics and intent that make it more difficult to recover ransomed data. Organizations are facing increasing pressure to submit to extortion. The cost of ransomware is increasing exponentially on a year to year basis. With more money and support, including third-party “vendors” for Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) attacks than ever, ransomware developers are entering a golden age of cyber carnage.

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Data Security On Premises (Off-Cloud)

STASH® prevents an ever growing list of innovative attacks from affecting your business allowing IT resources to stay focused on strategic initiatives and ensuring increased productivity, cost savings, and a reputation of impenetrable security.

A significant benefit of onsite storage is the performance improvement enabled by having the storage local to your organization. Local storage results in very low latency and fast response, with high-speed data transfer rates. The storage might be configured to use local high-speed storage network (LAN) or even high-speed fiber connectivity.

With local storage, you are in control of your own data security. With a datacentric onsite security solution, you can protect data at the data byte level with a compliance level that is beyond internal security protocols. Your organization can define security policies and retention rules that offer you the best compliance standards. Such internal protocols give an organization the ability to keep sensitive and critical data onsite.

With onsite storage, you are responsible for security updates, firmware upgrades, and software patches to the storage array. Consideration must be given to future expansion, as you will need to arrange purchasing and implementation of expansion trays. Consideration must also be given to the lifecycle of the storage; plans must be made for when the storage becomes obsolete, and eventually, you will need to retire the storage array and upgrade.

If your business depends on onsite data storage, or more commonly, a hybrid mix of onsite and on-cloud data management, your data security solution should be able to straddle the dependencies of both. STASH® is your complete solution.

Off-Cloud and Mixed Use Organizations, We’ve Got Your Back And Your Data Protected On-Site Too

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Security In The Cloud (not Cloud Security)

STASH® mitigates the harm from intrusions into the Cloud, where your data lies. Because the security stays with the data, and each data byte is secured, hacks cease to matter. Your data is impervious to malicious actors and nation states at all times, everywhere.

The types and number of attacks on data is growing exponentially. There have been more malware attacks in the last 18 to 24 months than in the last 18 years.

In light of the variety and volume of attacks, IT is facing the daunting task of attempting to secure the growing number of endpoint devices, often multiple devices per legitimate user.

Cloud security and security in the cloud sound like they could be different ways of saying the same thing, but they are two separate forms of security.

Cloud Security is the defensive measures your cloud provider typically provides. Think of it as a fence around your data, intended to keep the riff raff out. Security in the cloud, on the other hand, refers to securing what lies in the cloud: your valuable data. It makes data more impervious to theft, harm, loss, ransomware and manipulation.

Security in the cloud provides protection anytime, anywhere, with more power and flexibility but takes the heavy lifting away from the user.

The STASH advantage of security in the cloud is that it meets the hackers at their level. No matter which pathway leads to your data, once it is accessed, security in the cloud makes it useless.

Consider security in the cloud as the third and most evolved generation of security. The first generation security programs loaded onto each device. The second generation was security devices on the network; while still better than the first generation of protection, such a solution still may not stop malware until it’s already done some significant damage.

Security in the cloud should be your first line of proactive protection of an integrated security strategy. Implementing strong passwords, built-in device security offered by manufacturers and staff education are also essential elements of “defense in depth.” Taking such a comprehensive approach helps ensure the security of the enterprise’s most valuable commodity, the data itself.

Meet Hackers At Their Level. The Data They Are Trying To Steal

Data Governance

Data Governance works. Companies using this method report significant decreases in malware incidents, website compromises, data loss and data exposure, security related downtime, and audit deficiencies. STASH® delivers proactive granular control of data at the byte level inside and outside of the organization, with set it and forget it administration, plus minimal latency and disruption.

Effective data governance ensures that data is consistent and trustworthy and doesn’t get misused.

Without effective data governance, data inconsistencies in different systems across an organization might not get resolved. For example, customer names may be listed differently in sales, logistics and customer service systems. That could complicate data integration efforts and create data integrity issues that affect the accuracy of business intelligence (BI), enterprise reporting and analytics applications. In addition, data errors might not be identified and fixed, further affecting BI and analytics accuracy.

Another data governance outcome ensures that data is used properly, both to avoid introducing data errors into systems and to block potential misuse of personal data about customers and other sensitive information. That can be accomplished by creating uniform policies on the use of data, along with procedures to monitor usage and enforce the policies on an ongoing basis. In addition, data governance can help to strike a balance between data collection practices and privacy mandates.

A common concern among IT and data management teams is that they’ll be seen as the “data police” by business users if they lead data governance programs. To promote user buy-in and avoid resistance to governance policies, experienced data governance managers and industry consultants recommend that programs be as autonomous and automatic as possible, business-driven, with data owners involved and data users in a business-as-usual stance.

Among the advantages of a Data Governance component in your security protocol is:

Control and ensure that security measures like password protocols, firewalls, and security patches are up to date

Inform staff of the latest security threats and strategies used by hackers

Layered authorization to enable access to some network areas by customers, some by employees and wider access by managers

Routing of all network requests such as email and server access through a centralized, protected connection that stays up-to-date with the latest security protocols, blocking any threats are blocked before they get to the network.

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Data Recovery

A well planned proactive data recovery strategy deployed by STASH® can deliver unmatched strengthening of resilience with predictable costs and no unscheduled downtime. Consider the maximum amount of downtime you can afford for any system before the impact becomes critical to business operations.

What would happen to your business if you experienced a catastrophic data loss? Would your business survive? The statistics are alarming, 43% of businesses never reopen after a major disaster.

According to Gartner, the average cost of IT downtime is $5,600 per minute. Because there are so many differences in how businesses operate, downtime, at the low end, can be as much as $140,000 per hour, $300,000 per hour on average, and as much as $540,000 per hour at the higher end.

Files may be damaged or corrupted, and failures in network security can create opportunities for cyberattacks that either destroy or compromise valuable data. Even if data is securely backed up, the sudden inability to access that data can cause panic, leading customers to lose confidence in a company and seek more reliable services elsewhere. For organizations that rely on big data analytics to drive business decisions, losing even a portion of their data resources due to system downtime can be a crippling blow to their operations.

The key aspect of data recovery is understanding just how critical your data is. By compiling an assessment on the risks to your business you can then develop a proactive data protection strategy that mitigates the need of a traditional reactive recovery plan all together. Peace of mind is not far behind.

After the Horse Is Out Of The Barn Is Not The Time To Be Thinking About Whats Wrong With the Barn Door

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Data Privacy

Data privacy software can help you achieve and demonstrate compliance by automating and operationalizing data privacy principles. Privacy technology goes hand-in-hand with, and is part of a complete data governance solution like STASH®.

Data Privacy focuses on the rights of individuals, the purpose of data collection and processing, privacy preferences, and the way organizations govern personal data of data subjects. It focuses on how to collect, process, share, archive, and delete the data in accordance with the law.

Companies will need to be able to demonstrate compliance and show transparency in the way they handle data.

No matter the motives of companies, one thing cannot be overlooked. IAPP research indicates that by 2023, half of our planet’s population will have its personal information covered under local privacy regulations in line with the GDPR.

We are exchanging more data than ever, and in ways, we haven’t before. Technology is changing and this requires data privacy solutions to follow that change.

Data Protection laws grant individuals certain rights (right to data portability, right to be forgotten, the right to rectification …), and companies are obligated to fulfill these rights within the statutory deadline. The problem arises because most companies are not able to locate all the data or answer to data subject’s requests in time. Solving this problem is not a guessing game any longer. Deploying a secure data governance solution like STASH® with privacy built in is the most effective way to be on the right side of the law.

Data Privacy Cannot Exist Without Data Security. They Are NOT One And The Same

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Data Resilience

The More Copies You Have The Less Likely You’ll Be Left Empty-Handed.

STASH® Data Resilience closes the gap between business continuity and data recovery. To keep your business running without interruption, whether by cyber attack, weather, or people related events, a data resilience component in your Data Governance Strategy is a must have.

Data Resilience is the new Data Recovery.

CIOs and IT staff evolve from Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity and Continuity of Operations models which are inherently reactive to one that is preventative and proactive, and designed and executed for organizations to be able to ride through an adverse event.

Make no mistake. Data Resilience is the proactive planning and execution of generating and keeping multiple copies of data in multiple locales so that in any emergency, at least one copy of that data is uncorrupted and accessible. Data Recovery is the reactive after the fact attempt to regenerate data that may have been lost for good.

The Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council found that nearly three-quarters of organizations worldwide aren’t adequately protecting their data and systems.

According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), more than 40% of businesses never reopen after a disaster, and of those that do, only 29% were still operating after two years. As for those that lose their information technology for nine days or more after an adverse event? These companies enter bankruptcy within a year.

Whether caused by equipment failure, cyberattack, extreme weather events, human error, or power outage, fully recovering from an outage as swiftly as possible will mean the difference between business-as-usual again, and possibly, business-no-more.

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Access Control (DRM)

The STASH® Digital Rights Management (DRM) data access module of the STASH® Secure Data Governance Solution allows usage controls to be automatically applied to any data for persistent control of data access inside and outside of the organization, without user involvement.

To protect covered data from falling into the wrong hands, it’s important that resource proprietors and resource custodians understand which users have access and why these users need access to covered systems and data. The decision process for users to gain access to covered systems and data must be based on the need-to-know principle, which is that access to covered data must be necessary for the conduct of the users’ job functions.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is a central source of truth that allows organizations to easily manage, distribute, and analyze their digital content, while controlling who has access to the data. Effective access control systems should generate the data behind access. That way, administrators can not only physically dictate who can enter and exit – they can also observe how entries and exits are happening, allowing them to identify any suspicious activity and maintain security.

Customer data is rarely restricted to one system or one business department only and is often shared with external partners and outsourced vendors, which increases the security and privacy risk multi-fold. Once customer data is collected, organizations need to ensure that it is strictly handled as per data security and compliance guidelines throughout its life cycle. Granular access and usage controls are applied to the data before it reaches internal employees or outsourced vendors.>

With STASH® DRM, organizations can automatically apply persistent, granular usage controls to data. These controls are built into the data itself and travel with the data wherever it goes. When data is shared with third parties such as vendors and partners, access to the data can be denied, revoked or paused at any time. Data going to the cloud can also be protected persistently, as well as incoming data.

Least Access, Never Trust, Always Verify, Out-Of-The-Users-Hands Control

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Data RSL

STASH®’s modular, no integration required solution for data residency, sovereignty, and localization (RSL) is agnostic and without borders. Its capability was designed to satisfy the legal requirements and dictates of all data cross-border specifications

Organizations that handle international data must ensure that data privacy is not put at risk when shared across borders. Likewise, understanding the legal requirements of storing data in a certain country is fundamental to meeting data privacy and security standards. Each one of these standards is a part of a single concept.

Data Residency: Data residency refers to where a business, industry body or government specifies that their data is stored in a geographical location of their choice, usually for regulatory or policy reasons.

Data Sovereignty: Differs from data residency in that not only is the data stored in a designated location, but is also subject to the laws of the country in which it is physically stored. This difference is crucial, as data subjects (any person whose personal data is being collected, held or processed) will have different privacy and security protections according to where the data centers housing their data physically sit.

Data Localization: This is the most stringent and restrictive concept of the three, and like data sovereignty, is a version of data residency predicated on legal obligations. It is also the concept that is growing the fastest internationally. Data localization requires that data created within certain borders stay within them. In contrast to the two terms above, it is almost always applied to the creation and storage of personal data, with exceptions including some countries’ regulations over tax, accounting and gambling.

Data Where It Must Be By Design or by Law. Any Country, Facility, Data Room, Servers, Cloud Providers Of Your Choice

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Data Compliance

Data Encryption is NOT Data Security. You Need Policy, Methods, & Means

STASH® patented quantum-resistant keys were developed to protect our strong encryption system without access by us or anyone else, except you or those you authorize. Part of our ‘your data is yours, period’ promise.

If encryption is so unbreakable, why do businesses and governments keep getting hacked? There are a lot of ways to get data security wrong.

Regulatory guidelines don’t hold your hand to make sure you get it right. Even worse, many development teams adding encryption to their code call it a day once they achieve the minimum security needed for a regulatory checkmark. This “checkmark” mentality toward data security is dangerous.

Believing that regulatory compliance means you’re secure is one misconception that leads to data breach. HIPAA, PCI, CJIS and other regulatory compliance rules require that your sensitive data be protected. But they don’t go into much detail about how you should do that. Some don’t even specifically mention encryption at all.

Tech giants Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in cybersecurity to position themselves as “THE” secure cloud. All of this leads a lot of organizations to assume that any data stored by these providers is ironclad. This is a risky assumption. The physical infrastructure powering most cloud providers is secure and some even offer encryption options. However, they always recommend that developers encrypt their sensitive data before storing it in the cloud.

Protecting your sensitive data with low-level encryption solutions such as disk or file encryption can seem like a tempting one-click-fix. However, many organizations rely solely on these solutions which is downright dangerous.

Too many organizations fail to effectively manage their encryption keys, either storing them on the same server as the encrypted data or allowing a cloud provider to manage them. Storing the key on the same server as your data or handing them over to your cloud provider is akin to locking your car and leaving the keys in the door. Good key management, with strong policy enforcement makes all the difference.

STASH® patented quantum-resistant keys were developed to protect our strong encryption system without access by us or anyone else, except for you. Part of our ‘your data is yours, period’ promise.

Data Security

1-Click Ransomless Data Recovery Solution

Data Security On Premises (Off-Cloud)

Security In The Cloud (not Cloud Security)

Data Governance

Data Recovery

Data Privacy

Data Resilience

Access Control (DRM)

Data RSL

Data Compliance

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