Egnyte, Inc. — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: AF193-CSO1

Description

The cost of storing data has become the Air Force’s second largest expenditure after jet fuel. “The amount of electronically stored information maintained by the Air Force is estimated to be greater than 400 petabytes of data,” said Robert M. O’Connor, Air Force Space Command records manager. That is equivalent to 6 million copies of the entire Library of Congress. Not only does the Air Force manage massive quantities of data, there are also complex legal and enterprise mandated requirements for record management, retention, and protection. Egnyte’s Protect software solves the difficult problem of protecting important content enterprise wide and staying compliant with federal laws and Air Force regulations, and in Multi-Domain Operations operating at different levels of sensitivity. Protect already aligns with USAF PII policies and complies with HIPAA. Protect enables organizations to be strategic in regards to securing sensitive content that lives in various cloud and on-premise repositories. The software helps to prevent data breaches both internally and externally, eliminating concerns over recent incidents like the Capital One hack of over 100,000,000 records or the Desjardins’ internal rogue user data theft of 2,900,000 records.