Enterprise Data Governance, Quantum Decryption & Attack Surface Management - Jason Remillard | Ep 375

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Uh, Jason, let's talk about your company.

You are the founder of, uh, you are the founder and CEO of Data fortyfour thirty.

So, uh, tell us about this company.

Uh, you know, what do you do there at Data fortyfour thirty?

A bunch of different things, but in essence, we, uh, secure, protect, and discover information wherever it happens to be in the organization.

So we have a lot of different tools that can move data between locations.

We have a lot of banks using that technology.

We have, uh, a lot of spam and phishing detection technology, which of course touches a lot of different organizations.

But at the end of the day, it is about understanding where data is, what its importance or sensitivities are, and then protecting it according to the policies of the company.

Okay.

So you've, uh, you've also been, uh, quite aggressive with, uh, acquisitions, including Sirens threat intelligence asset and, uh, Tactic Red's attack surface management platform.

So, uh, Jason, what's your framework for deciding what to acquire, you know, versus, uh, build in-house? Uh, what do you look for?

I think for us, we look for, um, a couple things.

People being probably the number one resource in a lot of cases is important to us.

Uh, a technology that's established as well.

So, uh, when you're building products, finding that first customer, the first customers are hard to do.

So a lot of cases with an acquisition, obviously it comes with technology and usually a bunch of customers as well.

That's really helpful.

Uh, but also has to fit our larger story of protecting data, finding data, moving data, uh, however it's done.

So we have a technology that does, uh, corporate board governance solutions, so PowerPoints and s- and s- uh, spreadsheets, super important information, very, uh, um, uh, important and damaging if released, to other things like email and spam protection in an inbox in Office 365 in Germany, for example, right? We find that the attack vectors are really starting to be aggressive, uh, distributed, and multi-technologied as well.

So I can phish you with an SMS, I can crack your mailbox from there, and then from there, I can access SharePoint and exfiltrate, you know, a bunch of data.

So it's not just one vector anymore that is involved in a, in a hack or a breach.

It's quite a bit of different technologies, a lot of sophistication there involved.

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