How You Can Solve Collaboration Securely!

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Hello everybody and welcome to the virtual pub, episode 10.

Yay.

10 episodes. Now today we've got a very special guest. I introduced him in a moment. My name is Boss Fisher.

And we have Shauna Fear.

And our special guest is Kurt, the CEO of Nuclear Cyber. Which is great, really appreciate and you being with us on this morning. But before I get to you, I'm just going to get Sean to say, what is the Virtual Pub? Why did we start with the Virtual Pub?

Well, also as an alcohol favorite, the Virtual Pub basically was designed because of the COVID and the lack of the capability to meet people in face to face. So we decided to have a nice easy chat, ongoing chat for where thought leaders, special matter experts and industry influencers can meet and discuss the subject and the topic of the insider risk, the human risk element.

Great.

So today's topic is all about secure calibration and is that possible? So today we have again a special guest who is the CEO of Nuclear Cybercruit. I hope I pronounced the name properly there, Kurt. Perfect, perfect. Tell me a little bit about you and your background and then also the background of Nuclear Cyber.

Well, yeah, first of all, thank you very much for having us. Nucleus of Cyber is very happy to participate in this. We think that insider threat is one of the growing areas of cybersecurity challenges out there today. But first of all, I'm here over in the States so you know, we are presidentless at the time and I was up until 3 o' clock this morning watching the returns come in and it was still waiting on a president. So more importantly though, you know, since it's only Wednesday evening here In Boston, it's 5:45 in the evening, I wanted to just let you know that while we're waiting, I'm properly prepared for our next president, whoever that may be. So we have some US homemade vodka. Yeah, we have a nice 2016 Napa Valley Sterling Vineyards, which is a beautiful Cabernet. I think there's about that much left in the bottle and I think I drank that between 10 and 11 o' clock last night when I was waiting for some announcements to come in. But lastly, if we don't have it announced tonight, I'm gonna break out the Maker's Mark, which is really the American Bourbon whiskey. So that's. So we'll, we'll see where that goes. So yeah, so a lot of fun here in the States right now. So yeah, so look at, you know, kind of, you know, where my background has been. I've been a CEO in technology for the last 25 years, I've run, boy, half a dozen companies that have gone everything from accounting software to electronic forms to electronic payments. A couple of turns in there. And the last three companies I've run have been in the cybersecurity space. They've gone everything from. We initially started out and the actual legacy of Nucleus Cyber was for compliance around public facing websites. And we developed a product that was allowing developers to ensure that their websites were accessible and so they were able to actually make it viable for people with visual impairments to access the website. We started looking that a little bit deeper and realized that yes, as important, that is the privacy issues when people were going online and doing electronic shopping and putting their personal information in the websites became paramount to protecting who they were. And so we realized we had a very intelligent rules engine. And this is back, boy, this is back in 2007, 2008. And so we created an intelligent rules engine that allowed us to identify things such as personally identifiable information, personal health information. We have a very flexible rules engine that allows us to do things such as custom search so we can do things such as looking for legal documents, you know, intellectual property, anything to that nature. And so when we started looking at that, it became interesting because, you know, I called it the gun. The gun was facing public facing websites. But that was at the time of SharePoint, SharePoint 2007 or Moss, I think that was what it was called back at that time. Correct, Correct. I went back and I said, well guys, if we can point it at the public facing websites, why don't we look at it and how do we focus it on the insider, right? How do we protect, you know, internal documents? How do I identify that? And Gartner actually called that area file analysis. And at the time, the prior company to Nucleus Cyber was called his software. We one of the top file analysis companies out there. And so we could go in and look at things such as file shares, which are the death of all company because they really don't want to know what's in their file shares because they're afraid what's in there. SharePoint sites and now into the cloud. So we could go out and identify on any of those platforms what information was out there that may be exposed from things such as Australian Privacy Protection Act, California Consumer gdpr, which is the big buzzword out there today, personal health information, what have you. And we had quite a few organizations. And actually you're over in Canberra, the Ministry of Health is using Nucleus Cyber right now for identifying Documents as well as areas within the organization that may contain personal health information that is paramount to citizens of Australia. We saw that and it was really cool. We said, okay, what's the next natural progression? Next natural progression is that hey, if we have an identity of what this information is, how do we actually prevent people from either accessing it if they don't have information or access to it? Because at the time SharePoint was a complete disaster with permissions, which is very difficult. Or more importantly, how do you prevent the over sharing of that information? And that led into Nucleus Cyber where we're able to identify the actual information, we're able to tag it from a metadata standpoint. Now it's a little bit more technical, but we're able to put a tag on it to say, hey, this document contains something that's either important or may provide some level of compliance. But then more importantly, how do we proactively prevent that information from being accessed by people that don't have it and then over shared with people that maybe outside the organization, trading partners, third parties and what have you. And as we got into the cloud and things such as Office365 teams, Dropbox, Yammer, OneDrive and what have you, we really looked at that and said, boy, we're really actually securing collaboration today. And that's kind of how we came up with that kind of talking point around this oxymoron of can you really securely collaborate? And the answer is yes. We've proven it across our hundreds of customers that are out there, that range everything from a very small three person private equity firm to some of the largest defense industries and defense agencies in the world today.

Great, thanks Coach. So what I'll do is I'll get Sean to set the scene. Cause we like to set a bit of a story. And so Sean, take it away. Yes, thanks Kurt.

It's great.

Introduction. Look, you mentioned the word collaboration a few times. So if I look at the Shaun of Fear dictionary for the collaboration.