Today my wife and I attend the Ohio Chamber of Commerce's annual meeting. Our
local community through the Hilliard Chamber of Commerce nominated Jacadis for the 2011 Ohio Chamber Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award.
I am generally cynical about awards in the technology space because so many are self nominated. Our nomination for the Ohio Chamber Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award as well as our 2010 Hilliard Chamber Emerging Business award and our 2008 Campus Technology Security Innovator Award are special because others were motivated by who we are to nominate us. That extra attention feels good for the whole Jacadis team.
The Ohio Chamber Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award was designed to identify, honor and financially assist a company in Ohio which is demonstrating the historical innovative spirit of our state. We think we do that in our market and we think we do it in a way, with more than 60% of our clients being outside of the state of Ohio, that promotes Ohio's economy.
I work with business leaders fearful that they aren't operating securely and, more and more, just as fearful they aren't following government regulations. Jacadis helps those leaders and their technology teams determine whether they are secure in today's digital world. If we find the are not we provide a roadmap to follow to get there -- and stay there.
SecureSight, our flagship assessment service, was developed to help organizations ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of their critical information systems. Many firms rely on a "best practice" security assessment where they have a third party, a Jacadis or one of our competitors, review their security posture.
Many of our clients have found that the traditional process of an annual security assessment leaves them exposed for months at a time, with little to no visibility into that exposure. SecureSight closed that gap, bringing visibility & increased security to our clients, preventing slippage into an insecure state.
It is simple and practical really.
We conduct an annual assessment, set up tools for your technology team to have visibility to the security of your environment and identify your gaps and recommendations to close them. We recommend technologies or process changes for your team to make, and then are available to work alongside you as needed to implement those changes.
We like to say the Threats to your Data never go away.
Well neither do we.
The unique part of SecureSight is we maintain a coaching or mentoring relationship throughout the year. That uniqeness saw Jacadis recognized by Campus Technology in 2008.
SecureSight 1.0 answered the questions are you secure? And are you vulnerable?
In 2011, Jacadis will introduce SecureSight 2.0.
With the advent of SecureSight 2.0 we will be answering an additional question: Are you compliant?
Companies today need to be concerned with being compliant as well as being secure. Focusing solely on compliace creates insecure pockets in your business. Focusing solely on security may mean your business runs the risk of fines, penalties or some other loss simply because you are not doing the mandated way. A well founded risk management program balances both security and compliance so that your business, as efficiently as possible, can proclaim we are both secure and compliant.
We are applying the same thinking to answering the "Are you compliant question?" Government regulations never go away. And neither should your compliance partner.
It is this new innovation in our award winning service that we are competing for Excellence honors with 25 other Ohio firms.