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Report: Zero-trust architecture is expected to increase cybersecurity efficacy by 144%
As 2022 quickly approaches, Symmetry Systems and Osterman Research have released a report detailing how organizations plan to deploy zero-trust architecture, with 53% of respondents citing high-profile ransomware attacks as their primary motivator.

Symmetry Systems Pushes Data Security After $15M Series A
San Francisco-based Symmetry Systems closed a $15 million Series A as it looks to push companies to move beyond network and application security and into protecting its most valuable asset — its data.

Data Privacy Day 2022: Views and Tips from Top Industry Experts
Data Privacy Day, an international "holiday" that occurs each year on January 28, was created to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices. The National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) assumed leadership of Data Privacy Day from the Privacy Projects back in August of 2011.

Data Privacy Week: Raising Awareness and Encouraging Compliance
Data Privacy Day is not just a day anymore. For the first time, it’s Data Privacy Week — a week-long effort to empower individuals and enterprises worldwide to respect privacy, safeguard data, enable trust, and just as important, raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices.

Data Privacy: Experts Share How Far We’ve Come and How Far We Have to Go
Data Privacy Day occurs each year on January 28 and was created to raise awareness and promote privacy and data protection best practices.

API Security, Ransomware Top 2022 Threats
As 2022 quickly approaches, Symmetry Systems and Osterman Research have released a report detailing how organizations plan to deploy zero-trust architecture, with 53% of respondents citing high-profile ransomware attacks as their primary motivator.

Cybersecurity Trends for 2022: 4 Issues IT and Security Pros Should Know
While the cybersecurity landscape is bound to undergo multiple changes throughout 2022, much of what will happen over the next 12 months will be based on a series of decisions and security incidents that occurred in 2021.

Trust in Legacy Vendors Sinks as Ransomware Spikes
Organizations are losing trust in legacy vendors as ransomware payout demands and extortion fees massively increase and organizations get slower at detecting cybersecurity incidents.

Threat of Ransomware Lurks in Amazon S3 Buckets
New research from cloud security firm Ermetic shows that nearly all businesses have identities that, if compromised, would place at least 90 percent of the S3 buckets in their AWS account at risk.

32 Experts Share Predictions for Information Security in 2022
As part of our Information Security Insight Jam, we got in touch with several experts and asked for their advice and predictions for information security in 2022.

Front-End Developers in 2022: Skills to Know and Trends to Watch
Front-end developers are in high demand coming into 2022, according to a recent report from Robert Half.

Almost all software and systems are vulnerable to attack in some form
Front-end developers are in high demand coming into 2022, according to a recent report from Robert Half.

Symmetry Systems CEO and Co-Founder Shares Hybrid-Cloud Security Best Practices
Organizations have had to rapidly adopt cloud and hybrid-cloud security best practices over the past year.
News Archive
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SYMMETRY SYSTEMS NABS $15M TO BLOCK DATA BREACHES
Venturebeat - 06/23/21
Symmetry Systems, a platform that detects, responds, and protects against data breaches, today announced that it raised $15 million in series A financing led by Prefix Capital and ForgePoint Capital. The company says that the investment will support its growth initiatives, particularly in the areas of customer acquisition and recruitment.
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RESEARCH: ZERO TRUST IS EXPECTED TO DOUBLE THE EFFICACY OF CYBERSECURITY PROTECTIONS
Symmetry Systems - 11/17/21
Symmetry Systems, the leading provider of cloud data security, today released a new report, "Why Zero Trust is Important." Conducted by Osterman Research, the study details how organizations are deploying zero trust architecture. More than 90 percent of respondents confirm their organization is planning an enterprise-wide deployment for a zero trust architecture or within multiple business units.
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DATA STORE AND OBJECT SECURITY STARTUP SYMMETRY SYSTEMS RAISES $15M
Silicon Angle - 06/23/21
Data store and object security startup Symmetry Systems Inc. today announced it has raised $15 million in new funding to support its rapid growth in revenue, customers and employees.
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SYMMETRY SYSTEMS PUSHES DATA SECURITY AFTER $15M SERIES A
Crunchbase News - 06/23/21
San Francisco-based Symmetry Systems closed a $15 million Series A as it looks to push companies to move beyond network and application security and into protecting its most valuable asset — its data.
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SYMMETRY SYSTEMS RAISES $15 MILLION TO EXPAND LEADERSHIP IN HYBRID-CLOUD DATA SECURITY
Global Security Magazine - 06/23/21
Symmetry Systems announced a $15 million Series A funding round led by Prefix Capital and ForgePoint Capital, two premier venture funds investing in foundational and transformative technologies. The investment will support the company’s rapid growth in revenue, customers, and employees.
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DATA SECURITY COMPANY SYMMETRY SYSTEMS RAISES $15 MILLION
Security Week - 06/23/21
California-based data security company Symmetry Systems on Wednesday announced raising $15 million in a Series A funding round.
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CHANNEL PARTNER PROGRAM AND MSP NEWS UPDATES: JUNE 23, 2021
Channel E2E - 06/23/21
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MANAGED SECURITY SERVICE PROVIDERS (MSSP) NEWS: JUNE 23, 2021
MSSP Alert - 06/23/21
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TERM SHEET: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 2021
Fortune - 06/23/21
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SYMMETRY SYSTEMS RAISES $15 MILLION IN SERIES A ROUND TO EXTEND LEADERSHIP IN HYBRID-CLOUD DATA SECURITY
VM Blog - 06/23/21
Symmetry Systems, provider of cutting-edge Data Store and Object Security (DSOS), announced a $15 million Series A funding round led by Prefix Capital and ForgePoint Capital, two premier venture funds investing in foundational and transformative technologies. The investment will support the company's rapid growth in revenue, customers, and employees.
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HOW TO NAVIGATE THE NEW COLORADO PRIVACY ACT (CPA)
Security Magazine - 06/11/21
The Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) passed yesterday in the state's senate and will go into effect in July 2023 – creating an additional regulation that organizations must comply with or face hefty fines and eroding consumer trust.
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THE CYBERSECURITY OUTLOOK FOR 2021 AND BEYOND
Tech News World - 06/04/21
Cyberattacks in the first half of 2021 have escalated globally to affect virtually every industry. Earlier this year TechNewsWorld spoke with cybersecurity experts about the expanding threat landscape, imminent threats, and what can be done to counter the ongoing offensives against the IT systems of companies, organizations, and government agencies.
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BIDEN’S CYBERSECURITY EXECUTIVE ORDER COULD CHANGE IT SECURITY
DICE Insights - 05/24/21
Since President Joe Biden took office in January, his administration has been fighting multiple cybersecurity fires that seem to come one right after another—including the cyberespionage campaign that targeted SolarWinds and, more recently, the ransomware attack that took down Colonial Pipeline Co. for nearly a week.
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MODERN SECURE REMOTE ACCESS WITH SDP
Tag Cyber - 12/03/20
Controlling remote access to company assets is more important now than ever before. The COVID19 pandemic has amplified and accelerated the need with most workforces now working from home.
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TECHNADO PODCAST ON DATA STORE AND OBJECT SECURITY
Technado - 10/15/20
Symmetry Systems’ Mohit Tiwari joined Technado this week to talk about his journey from university professor to start-up CEO. He explained the company’s focus on data store and object security before sharing his worst IT nightmare with the group.
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PUTTING USERS IN CHARGE OF THEIR DATA IN A HYBRID CLOUD
TechGenix - 10/12/20
In today’s era, when almost everything is online, the most valuable asset of a company is the privacy of their business data and other intellectual property. In hybrid cloud environments, however, it’s often not clear where your data is being stored and who has actual control over it. Is it possible for users to control their data even when they utilize untrusted applications running in untrusted datacenters? To explore this question and similar ones, I recently had a chat with Mohit Tiwari, the CEO and co-founder of Symmetry Systems, a company that delivers data store and object security (DSOS) purpose-built to provide full visibility and unified access control over your most valuable data assets, no matter where or how they are stored.
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INTERVIEW WITH MOHIT TIWARI – SYMMETRY DATAGUARD, FUTURE CYBER-THREATS, AND THE IMPACT OF COVID-19
Safety Detectives - 8/31/20
When Mohit Tiwari, CEO and Co-Founder of Symmetry Systems, agreed to sit down with Safety Detectives’ Aviva Zacks, she got ready for an exciting interview. She asked him all about his company’s DataGuard and how it helps security engineers keep everything safe.
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5 MINUTES WITH SYMMETRY: ON COVID-19 AND ITS IMPACT ON SECURITY TEAMS
Security Magazine - August 27, 2020
Mohit Tiwari is now the CEO and co-founder of Symmetry Systems. Before Symmetry, Tiwari was a cybersecurity professor at University of Texas, Austin where his lab was funded by DARPA and National Science Foundation, collaborating with teams at General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Intel, ARM, Google, and others.
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INTERVIEW WITH SYMMETRY: ON DATA STORE AND OBJECT SECURITY (DSOS)
Infosecurity Magazine - 10/26/20
Not many professors are willing to give up a tenured professorship at the University of Texas in Austin to develop an unproven data security startup, but that’s exactly what Mohit Tiwari did when he packed his bags in Austin and moved to San Francisco to co-found Symmetry Systems.
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VM BLOG EXPERT INTERVIEW: SYMMETRY SYSTEMS EMERGING FROM STEALTH TO TRANSFORM DATA STORE AND OBJECT SECURITY
VM Blog - 10/13/20
Symmetry Systems is a provider of cutting-edge Data Store and Object Security (DSOS). And this week, they emerged from stealth only a year after raising $3 million in seed funding. Symmetry Systems’ flagship solution is called DataGuard, and it provides what the company describes as unified visibility into data objects across all data stores, answering data security and compliance questions that traditional tools cannot.
To better understand the company and the problems they are addressing, VMblog reached out to Mohit Tiwari, CEO at Symmetry Systems, to learn more.
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TECHSTRONGTV INTERVIEW — WHY DATA-SECURITY SHOULD BE PART OF DEVOPS
TechStrong TV - 10/13/20
Mohit Tiwari, co-founder and CEO of Symmetry Systems, joins Mitch Ashley to discuss the problem of managing the security of data sprawl across multiple public and private clouds.
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DATA SECURITY COMPANY SYMMETRY SYSTEMS EMERGES FROM STEALTH
Security Week - 08/11/20
Symmetry Systems, a provider of data store and object security (DSOS) solutions, emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with $3 million in seed funding from ForgePoint Capital and Prefix Capital.
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SECURITY GUY TV INTERVIEW | EPISODE 1754 — DATA-CENTRIC SECURITY
Security Guy TV - 8/11/20
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SYMMETRY SYSTEMS LAUNCHES, READY TO REDEFINE DATA STORE AND OBJECT SECURITY
Security Boulevard - 8/11/20
Company Launches Data Store and Object Security (DSOS) Market with Solution Purpose-Built with Feedback from More Than 50 Industry-Leading Security Practitioners.
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COMPANY BEHIND DATA STORE AND OBJECT SECURITY (DSOS) BECOMES PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE
Dark Reading - 8/11/20
Company behind Data Store and Object Security (DSOS) becomes public knowledge following a $3 million seed round of funding.
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SYMMETRY SYSTEMS SET TO REDEFINE DATA SECURITY
VM Blog - 8/11/20
Symmetry Systems, provider of cutting-edge Data Store and Object Security (DSOS), today emerged from stealth a year after raising $3 million in seed funding. The round was led by two premier venture funds investing in foundational and transformative technologies, ForgePoint Capital and Prefix Capital.
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SYMMETRY SYSTEMS TAKES IN $3M SEED
Venture Capital Journal - 8/11/20
Symmetry Systems, a provider of cutting-edge data store and object security, has raised $3 million in seed funding.