Author: Emre Koksal

Prof. Emre Koksal, Founder & CEO

Prof. Emre Koksal, Founder & CEO

Emre Koksal is the Founder and CEO of Datanchor. He is also a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. 

Emre received S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from MIT in 1998 and 2003, respectively, in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. During his studies, he was affiliated with MIT Lincoln Lab., Lab. for Information and Decision Systems, and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs. He also worked at Sycamore Networks as an intern engineer, prior to their IPO. His areas of expertise include wireless communication, information security, communication networks, and information theory. He holds 8 US and International Patents, licensed and are being commercialized by several companies. He is the author of more than 100 papers, published in top journals and conference proceedings. He has testified to the Congress multiple times on various aspects of cybersecurity.

Emre is the recipient of Columbus Business First – Inventor of the Year Award in 2020, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2011, a finalist of the Bell Labs Prize in 2015, OSU CoE Innovator Award in 2016 and 2020, OSU CoE Lumley Research Award in 2011 and 2017, and the recipient of an HP Labs - Innovation Research Award in 2011. Papers he co-authored received the best paper award in IEEE WiOpt 2018 and the best student paper candidate in ACM MOBICOM 2005. He has served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and Elsevier Computer Networks. 

Data Security

The SolarWinds Hack – A Much Bigger Problem

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.

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Data Security

The CMMC 2020 Year End Scoop

Troy Fine, a certified CMMC registered practitioner and provisional assessor at Schneider Downs gives us the low down on where we are with the CMMC journey at the end of 2020 and how DIB contractors should get started.

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Data Security

CMMC Data Protection Made Easy

In a world where the enemy looks for every opportunity to steal our nation’s secrets, protecting sensitive information is crucial to defending America. The CMMC tackles this challenge head on. And Anchor helps do it without disrupting your business.

Anchor is the easy and affordable way to protect controlled unclassified information for CMMC compliance so that you can get back to doing what you do best, protecting America.

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Data Security

Data Centric Security Simplified

Introducing Anchor. The easy and affordable way to do data-centric security. With Anchor this giant leap in technology becomes simple. It’s easy to use on existing infrastructure without changing the way you do business. It’s affordable, without big up-front costs, so that smaller companies can have state-of-the-art security and meet the ever-increasing compliance requirements for handling sensitive data.

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