Nucleus Cyber's NC Protect Named Data Security Innovation Product of the Year in 2020 CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards
"There are some clear advantages that come with NC Protect that we feel really make it stand out. It not only dynamically controls access to content, it also controls how users can share it, and with whom, across all supported platforms."
BOSTON (PRWEB) October 14, 2020
Nucleus Cyber, a provider of advanced information protection solutions, today announced that its NC Protect has been named the winner of the “Data Security Innovation of the Year” award in the fourth annual CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program conducted by CyberSecurity Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global information security market today.
Nucleus Cyber’s NC Protect earned top honors as the ‘Data Security Innovation of the Year’ for the unique and advanced information protection capabilities it offers to prevent data loss and protects against insider threats in a wide range of collaboration applications. NC Protect leverages existing technology investments to provide a simpler, faster and cheaper solution to tailor information protection for file sharing, messaging and chat across enterprise collaboration tools. NC Protect automatically finds, classifies and secures unstructured data in on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments to protect against breaches, data misuse and unauthorized file access enabling enterprises to collaborate securely - anywhere. The solution also won a CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award in 2019 for Best Access Management Solution.
“Especially with the significant growth of employees working remotely, Nucleus Cyber’s NC Protect is critically important as it lets users work from anywhere while protecting their data in shared teams,” said James Johnson, managing director, CyberSecurity Breakthrough. “We congratulate the entire team at Nucleus Cyber for winning our ‘Data Security Innovation of the Year’ award and we look forward to continuing innovation well into the next year and beyond.”
NC Protect provides advanced, real-time information protection that increases the value of existing technology investments to secure content including files, chats, and messages - without the complexity or cost of native tools. It allows IT administrators and security owners to manage user access without creating more security groups, sites, folders, or other information silos. It also augments native app security using the unique identity data builds over time. Using attributes such as chat content, file name, authorship and date stamps, as well as transient context like IP location, device or time of day, NC Protect applies conditional access and usage rights to support all business rules for any collaboration scenario.
“There are some clear advantages that come with NC Protect that we feel really make it stand out. It not only dynamically controls access to content, it also controls how users can share it, and with whom, across all supported platforms. It offers unique features not found in native apps, such as dynamic watermarks and a secure web viewer to ensure business-critical content can be shared securely internally and with third parties,” said Kurt Mueffelmann, CEO of Nucleus Cyber. “Best of all, it's completely transparent to the end user for a seamless security and user experience that encourages adoption and reduces Shadow IT.”
The mission of the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of information security categories, including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Email Security and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 3,750 nominations from over 20 different countries throughout the world.
NC Protect is fully integrated with Microsoft Office 365—SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Exchange, and Yammer, plus Dropbox, Nutanix Files and Windows file shares. Customers use NC Protect to safeguard business-critical data in midsize to large enterprises, as well as industries with large amounts of regulated and sensitive data, including government, defense, utilities, financial services, healthcare and pharmaceuticals.
About Nucleus Cyber
Nucleus Cyber is a provider of advanced information protection solutions that prevent data loss and protect against insider threats. The company’s NC Protect solution leverages existing technology investments to provide a simpler, faster and cheaper solution to tailor information protection for file sharing, messaging and chat across collaboration tools. For midsize to large enterprises and regulated industries it protects business-critical content in cloud collaboration tools Microsoft Office 365—SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Exchange, and Yammer, plus Dropbox, Nutanix Files and Windows file shares. For more information visit http://www.nucleuscyber.com or follow @nucleuscyber.
About CyberSecurity Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in information security and cybersecurity technology companies, products and people. The CyberSecurity Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough information security companies and products in categories including Cloud Security, Threat Detection, Risk Management, Fraud Prevention, Mobile Security, Web and Email Security, UTM, Firewall and more. For more information visit CyberSecurityBreakthrough.com.