Sensitive information in office document files such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Textpad, PDF files can be easily copied, transferred and sold at times, all without the owning organization’s knowledge. Keeping these assets safe, with assurance however, is a great challenge to organizations across the world.
Organizations that have globally distributed information, or companies who work with multiple vendors/partners, have a real challenge in securing their sensitive information from loss. Often the threat of a potential breach limits the scope and use of outsourcing, or inter organization cooperation. When the information is compromised the company looses credibility with its customers, partners and financial markets, and may be out of compliance.
Zafesoft provides solutions that secure the content in sensitive files, with security that cascades copy and paste iterations, as well as proliferation onto heterogeneous media such as hard drives, server, USB, CD and emails etc., while maintaining a transparent non restrictive user interface with the users. Easy to use, in the background security.
It's unique solution for information security and tracking allows “zafed” information to be edited, copied, pasted etc. by authorized user, while passing its “zafed” quality to these copies. In this way the information or portions of it remains secure and traceable throughout its worldwide use, both online or offline.
The two co-founders drive the product and the vision of Zafesoft . They bring expertise in Security, Operating Systems, Workflow, large scale Enterprise Applications and Databases.
Sandeep was VP of Solutions Marketing at Borland Software, where he started and ran Enterprise Solutions Marketing. He was a VP of Sales and Marketing at SpeeDEV (a startup) for 3 years, where he took the company from 3 to 50 customers (now Kovair, after merger). He ran the Enterprise Channel Sales at Symantec and later at JetForm (now Adobe), creating very successful programs for both. As Director of Marketing and Product Management at Fujitsu Software he created and launched i-Flow (a highly successful product, now called Interstage BPM), for which he also owns a patent. Prior to this he worked at Computer Associates, where he was the group product manager for the Relational Database Group (PM, Marketing, QA, Tech Support, customer Base etc.). Sandeep has an MBA, and Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Physics.
A Shukla – Co-founder, CTO
Mr. Shukla leads the engineering at Zafesoft, as well as working with other aspects of the company and its vision. He brings a rich and innovative technology background and over 18 years of experience in creating and managing products and engineering organizations. He has worked in a variety of different areas of technology, including databases, enterprise software, operating systems, and software applications. He has worked with both large and small teams in both on-shore and off-shore models as a Director and Senior Director of R&D. He has delivered number of products from scratch to large scale deployments, and owns over 20 patents.
Michael Cunniff, CFO
Mr. Cunniff brings more than 20 years experience in finance including SAAS, strategic operations, and business development. Mr Cunniff provides financial and operations expertise to several early stage and startup ventures. Prior to Zafesoft he led financial operations at Truveo, a video search company (acquired by AOL) and ContentNext Media, a digital media company (acquired by Guardian News and Media) from very early stage through acquisition. Prior to that, Mr. Cunniff was at Inktomi Corporation in various senior leadership roles, the last of which was Vice President and General Manager, Content Networking Solutions before he was retained by Yahoo! as part of Yahoo!’s purchase of Inktomi. Mr. Cunniff held a variety of senior financial/operational positions for Hitachi Data Systems over a ten year span. Mr. Cunniff holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Management from George Mason University.
Dr. Taher Elgamal, Chief Technical Advisor
Taher Elgamal is a leading expert in computer, network and information security. Taher was the Chief Technology Officer of Tumbleweed Communications until its acquisition by Axway, Inc. He was the Founder/Chair of Securify, and was the former Chief Scientist of Netscape. He is recognized in the industry as the "inventor of SSL". He wrote the base algorithm used in SSL and helped establish SSL as the Internet Security standard within standard committees and within the industry.
Taher invented several industry and government standards in data security and digital signatures area including the DSS government standard for digital signatures. Several thousand publications have been written in the space referred to as "the Elgamal Cryptography". He developed security software that was used in commercial products by approximately ten companies as well as in the DSS government standard for digital signatures. Taher has public Board of Director experience with RSA Security, hi/fn, Phoenix Technology and Tumbleweed. He is an advisor to Onset Ventures and several companies in the Internet and security space. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Robert Siciliano, Technical Advisory Board
Robert Siciliano is an expert on personal security and identity theft. With 25 years of experience in self-defense, security work, ID theft, martial arts, and electronic white collar crimes. Mr. Siciliano actively researches and stays abreast and ahead of the various aspects of security needs of today as the CEO of IDTheftSecurity.com.
An American television news correspondent, security analyst, Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist, and author of "The Safety Minute: Living on high alert; How to take control of your personal security and prevent fraud", Mr. Siciliano's goal is to inform and educate Americans about their personal and digital security.
His thoughts and advice on all security and fraud matters appear often in both the televised and print news media. An avid blogger to the Huffington Post, he has appeared on the The Today Show, CBS Early Show, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, CNBC etc.
John Laing, Advisory Board
Mr. Laing has 38 years in the technology industry, having held senior management positions with industry leaders in multiple markets: security with Symantec; content discovery with Inxight; desktop operating systems with Apple; and document printing with Xerox. While serving as the executive vice president of worldwide sales for Symantec from 1989 through 1997, he managed revenue growth from $15 million to $600 million and orchestrated several high-profile acquisitions, which helped to advance the company to its current successful position. John also served as president and CEO at Inxight where he was instrumental in the company’s turnaround, growing revenue by 65 percent and expanding its worldwide channels. Recently John was President and CEO of Reactivity where he repositioned the company and managed its successful sale to Cisco for $135m. Throughout his career, John has raised money from respected venture institutions including Vantage Point Venture Partners, Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital and Reed Elsevier Ventures among others.
John currently serves on the boards of directors at Grid Net and Verdiem.
