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Case Study: K1 Investment Management
Seamless security that follows the data
K1: Strategic venture capital for enterprise software
K1 Investment Management is a West Coast-based venture capital firm focused
exclusively on investing in enterprise software. The firm actively partners with the
management teams of its portfolio companies, providing strategic, financial and
operational consulting to help them reach their full potential.
Securing reputations, information, and relationships
Although K1 itself is a small firm, it is investing in companies that have thousands of employees. The firm
exchanges an enormous volume of sensitive, proprietary information with its portfolio companies and its
investors. “Our reputation is our lifeblood,” says Sujit Banerjee, K1’s Managing Director in charge of the
operations team. “We need to protect all the proprietary information we receive or send out.”
However, conventional security solutions tend to be cumbersome and complex for end users, notes
Banjeree. “We don’t have a huge IT team so we needed something that was easy to understand and easy
to implement. We were looking for something that could address a lot of security requirements in one
simple solution.”
The Solution: Vera security, visibility, and control
K1 found the answer in a revolutionary data security solution from
VeraTM. Systems that simply focus on preventing data leakage are
unrealistic these days, when so much sensitive data is being shared
via email or the cloud. The Vera solution is different – it wraps security
around the data itself, enabling users to grant and restrict access to a
piece of data no matter where it is sent or resides. Moreover, it allows
IT administrators to track the data, see who has opened it, know if it
has been forwarded, and revoke access from anyone, anytime. A “time
bomb” feature enables users to limit how long a document can be
viewed or shared by making it inaccessible after a specific time.
“What Vera has developed,
attaching security to the data,
is a tremendous capability that
hasn’t existed before.”
- Sujit Banerjee, Managing Director
K1 Investment Management
A great experience can be a secure experience
Vera features and benefits
Secure any file, anywhere
• AES 256-bit encryption
• Windows, Mac and Mobile
• iOS and Android support
• Granular access permissions
• Dynamic watermarking
• “One-time view” for files
• Across email and cloud
• Online and offline access
Real-time policy enforcement
• Create and edit policies
• Central admin console
• “Smart default” policies
• AD/SSO integration
• Real-time notifications
• Groups management
• Help desk admin roles
• Domain whitelisting
Central admin and control
• Revoke access, anytime
• Analytics and access stats
• Complete audit logging
• Cloud and hybrid options
• Access location reports
“What Vera has developed, being able to attach security to the
data, is a tremendous capability that hasn’t existed before in the
industry,” says Banerjee. “The amount of transparency we have
into our data, knowing where it is at all times, helps me and my
partners sleep a lot better.”
If users have a bad experience with a security solution, they may
try and avoid using it or working around it, putting sensitive
data at risk. In sharp contrast, Vera enables companies to set
and modify security policies and implement them automatically,
without requiring users to change the way they work or the
applications they use. “We finally have a security solution that
integrates seamlessly into our workflow, and I don’t have to be
thinking about it all the time,” says Banerjee. “I can do what I like
to do, which is managing our portfolio companies’ operations,
while knowing that Vera is taking care of our security.”
“We finally have a security solution that
integrates seamlessly into our workflow.”
- Sujit Banerjee, Managing Director
K1 Investment Management
Vera: A Platform for Enterprise Security
Founded by data security experts, Vera is solving the greatest problem facing every enterprise in
the Information Age: corporate data is everywhere. Vera is a content and data security platform that
protects business information no matter where it’s stored, and no matter how it’s shared. Built on a
scalable, easy-to-integrate platform, Vera attaches encryption, security and policy directly to the data
itself, giving security practitioners and IT teams the power to control it, no matter where it goes.
Backed by venture capital firms like Battery Ventures, Amplify Partners, and some of Silicon Valley’s
most notable cyber-security angel investors, Vera believes that it is possible to create, collaborate and
communicate freely, without fear.
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