Sensitive Data? Anchor It™
Sensitive Data? Anchor It™
Anchor is a powerfully simple way for
businesses to secure and control their data.
Proudly Protecting Information-Critical Industries
We help protect and control sensitive data for the world’s most information-critical industries such as…
Defense Contracting
Protecting classified and controlled unclassified information (CUI) is critical to our national security and defense. Department of Defense contractors use Anchor to comply with the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).
Legal Services
Law firms live and die by their ability to preserve clients’ trust. They're also a prime target for cyber attacks. Anchor empowers firms to hold private client information with confidence in a world where a single breach can destroy a reputation earned over decades.
Manufacturing
The companies who build the world we know and love have experienced rapid digital transformation and deal with increasingly complex supply chains. We protects the intellectual property they depend on from CAD, CAM, BIM, product, process, and more.
Consulting Services
You can’t do business without collaborating on sensitive data. Anchor provides a secure collaboration for you, your clients, and your partners so each organization maintains absolute control over how, when, and under what circumstances their data is used.
Financial Services
“Protecting investors means protecting their data, too.” - finra.org Anchor has a high impact helping small businesses establish a program to comply with the FINRA cybersecurity checklist.
Easy, Affordable Data
Protection & Control
Information is our most valuable asset. Network-centric security has failed to protect it. Today, when sensitive information is shared or stolen it can be copied instantly anywhere in the world and abused. We’ve lost control of our most valuable asset. Anchor is how we take it back.
Anchor (verb)
: to protect data from being lost, stolen or abused such that
Anchor (noun)
: the data security and control suite that empowers businesses to use and share their sensitive data with confidence.
// we used to worry about losing sensitive data, now we use anchor
: to protect data from being lost, stolen or abused such that
- it can only be used by those strictly following the access rules
- access is instantly and automatically revoked when the rules are broken
- copied files inherit the same protection as the original
Anchor (noun)
: the data security and control suite that empowers businesses to use and share their sensitive data with confidence.
// we used to worry about losing sensitive data, now we use anchor
What We Offer
Anchor is simply a better way to protect and control sensitive data. Rather than relying on traditional walls around your network, Anchor builds the security right into your individual files and ensures they can only be opened by the intended person in the intended place.
Change your mind? Anchor can instantly revoke access to files you've already shared, and even copies of those files.
Change your mind? Anchor can instantly revoke access to files you've already shared, and even copies of those files.
Better Data Security
In the past we’ve tried to protect sensitive data by protecting the network, the cloud, the desktop, and the people who use it. With Anchor it’s simple. We protect the data itself because that’s what we really care about. Anchor strengthens and improves traditional data security while protecting adding powerful new protections that adapt to the modern world.
Better Cloud Security
Anchor encrypts data before it is saved to your computer or to the cloud. You no longer have to trust your cloud storage provider to be a good steward of your data. It’s encrypted long before they get it and they don’t even have the keys to decrypt it. If your cloud gets hacked your data remains secure.
Better People Security
70% of employees bring company-owned confidential data with them when they leave. Anchor empowers the company who owns the data to maintain control of it even when an employee copies it onto their personal device. Anchor helps protect data from insider threats.
Better Network Security
In the past we’ve tried to protect sensitive data by protecting the network, the cloud, the desktop, and the people who use it. With Anchor it’s simple. We protect the data itself because that’s what we really care about. Anchor strengthens and improves traditional data security while protecting adding powerful new protections that adapt to the modern world.
Better Desktop Security
In a work-from-home world relying on network firewalls to protect sensitive data is absurd. There is no longer such a thing as containing it inside the network. Anchor removes the network from the equation and protects individual files themselves. With Anchor there’s strength in simplicity.
Easier Security & Privacy Compliance
Anchor is your secret weapon that helps you easily and affordably meet stringent cybersecurity and privacy compliance requirements and standards such as CMMC, NIST 800-171, FINRA, HIPAA, and more.
Zero-Trust Data Security
The world is connected and distributed. Data lives in the cloud and on IoT devices. Employees are working remotely and bringing their own devices. Bad actors are already inside the network. A zero-trust architecture (ZTA) is now the only way to be secure.
But our need to share information and collaborate is only increasing. Our sensitive data is digital, online, and at risk. Data is our most valuable asset and it’s time to shift from protecting networks and computers to protecting the sensitive data itself.
But our need to share information and collaborate is only increasing. Our sensitive data is digital, online, and at risk. Data is our most valuable asset and it’s time to shift from protecting networks and computers to protecting the sensitive data itself.
A Security Wall For Every File
Zero-trust architectures define micro-perimeters around resources being protected in order to minimize incentive and the negative impact of a network breach. Anchor takes micro-perimeters to the extreme and removes the network from the equation entirely. With Anchor every single file has its own independent security perimeter and every single request to use it is verified.
“It’s like a bank robber breaking into the vault to find each individual bill is inside another vault.“
Extreme Multi-Factor & Instant Revocation
Zero-trust says that policies should be dynamic, based on as many sources of data as possible. Anchor takes zero-trust authorization to the extreme. Patented heartbeat technology constantly verifies access rules in real-time based on a myriad of organizational and contextual data sources such Active Directory, geo-location, bluetooth, IP address, WiFi network, and more. It’s extreme multi-factor authentication. When an access rule is broken on a file in use Anchor instantly shuts it down. Trust is never assumed, even after a file is open.
“Anchor doesn’t just minimize the attack surface in space, it also minimizes the attack window in time.“
Stolen & Shared Files Are Still Secure
Anchor is a lightweight solution that enforces zero-trust security at the application layer based on the user, role, and the context in which they’re trying to access data. It continues to protect and work with files that have been shared or stolen outside an organization's network just as well as it works inside. Anchor facilitates remote work and collaboration across the internet while maintaining strong protection against unauthorized data access.
“Traditional security contains data inside a secure environment. With Anchor, the security travels with the data.“
What Happened To DLP?
Traditional DLP solutions have several weaknesses.
- They were heavy-handed causing a bad user experience so users found ways to work around them.
- Data was stored unencrypted so when DLP failed data was leaked as plain-text instead of cipher-text.
- They are meant to contain data and lock it in, which prohibits sharing and collaborating.
As the next-generation data security and control solution, Anchor solves each of these problems.
- Anchor is lightweight and unobtrusive so users aren’t motivated to work around it.
- Anchored files are always encrypted so a network breach does not result in a data leak.
- Anchor is built for the modern work environment and is conducive to sharing and collaborating as long as the access rules are being followed.
Anchor is a simple, elegant solution that combines the best aspects of data loss prevention (DLP) and digital rights management (DRM) without the problems inherent with these legacy technologies.
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Learn More From Our Team of Data Security Experts
Understanding Doxware and Ransomware with Datanchor’s Jake Cleveland
July 11, 2021
Datanchor’s General Manager Jake Cleveland joins the host of Strategic Communications video podcast, Tech This! to talk about doxware and ransomware.
Protecting Sensitive Data In Remote Work
February 3, 2021
Michael Zinn of Micro Systems Management (msmctech.com) talks to The Anchor about cybersecurity and protecting sensitive data in a remote work environment. Michael is a systems engineer & certified forensic examiner who has done extensive high-level network security work for both commercial and national defense.
The SolarWinds Hack – A Much Bigger Problem
January 21, 2021
The SolarWinds hack is a big deal not just because of hack itself, but because it represents an example of a much larger problem. A lack of robustness in today’s network and security architecture. Professor C. Emre Koksal explains why this is a systematic problem that will repeat itself if we don’t change the way we think about cybersecurity.
