#SOOKASA SEND SECURE LINK SERIAL#In addition to the serial success of his dad, and its VC backers, it has Taher Elgamal on its advisory board. While there's a lot of competition in the enterprise secure file-sharing market these days (Alfresco, Box, Watchdox, Egnyte, etc.), Sookasa has the early markers for success. They got distracted by fixing that problem, Asaf told Business Insider.Īsaf showed the file security project to his Stanford professor, who introduced him to Accel's Gandhi and a startup was born, he said. While passing files back and forth on such projects, they realized they weren't happy with how secure their files were. They were building one that will turn your air conditioner on a half-hour before you get home. Son Asaf was earning his doctorate at Stanford, and both father and son like to geek out together and build apps. He previously co-founded Actona, (acquired by Cisco) Viola (acquired by Fluke Networks) and Micronet (public, MCRNL). Dad Israel was formerly an electrical engineering professor at Technion University in Israel, which is like the Stanford University there. Sookasa raised $5 million from Accel Partners, backed by Sameer Gandhi (investor of Dropbox, and security company Sourcefire).Įqually interesting is how this father/son duo decided to go into business together. Ditto for helping lawyers comply with their industry's security regulations while using popular cloud storage. Its claim to fame is that it adds HIPPA security to files, so doctors can use Dropbox, Gmail, etc., while complying with health care laws. But if you ask him if that means his dad has to follow his orders, Asaf only laughs.Īnd, instead of making duck calls for hunters, Asaf and his dad, Israel Cidon (who is CTO), offer a cloud service that secures files stored in popular cloud storage apps. Asaf is the son and the CEO of Sookasa, which technically makes him his dad's boss. He's pointing out the obvious visual differences between the Cidon family's scalp and chin regions and that of the Robertsons, the famed bushy-bearded family that stars in A&E's hit reality series. "It's like 'Duck Dynasty.' Only without hair," jokes Asaf Cidon, co-founder and CEO of a file-sharing startup called Sookasa that came out of stealth this week. What's does it feel like to do a startup with your dad? I am unaware of any easy ways to accomplish this type of thing utilising traditional file sharing services and so I may be missing some ways to manage standard SMB shares so that it's more user-friendly and reliable.Asaf Cidon (left) and Israel Cidon, co-founders, Sookasa Now, most of my personal experience with FileSharing and file security relate to our Distribution Points and so I am nowhere near being an expert in this field. While advertising some pretty neat file collaboration features. While both companies will sign BAAs (or rather HIPPA BAs) only Box will let you manage your encryption keys. Here in IT we love our Dropbox Business account but are looking into things like Box because they'll let you manage your own encryption keys. To help alleviate these issues we've moved all of our non-sensitive documents and files to GAFE (in more of a managed manner than that implies), are moving all HR related files to our HR management system, will be moving archival financial documentation to a properly secured Document management system that we are still evaluating, but we need to find the best solution to manage, share and maintain secured working files which may contain PII, PHI or other sensitive business information.īecause we've found good secure ways to handle MOST of our documents there are only a small number of users (I'm guessing less than 30) with minimal storage needs. They don't like learning which characters they shouldn't use (you know, like and or :), and they really hate having to have IT set directory permissions etc. They don't like being advised to move files to their local drives before beginning to work on them. Now for my issue: Our users are tired of working with our secure SMB file shares. For example, a doctor can send test results to a. However, you are all my favorite folks to ask for this type of advice and so, here I am. Sookasa also has shared links that lets you share encrypted files with people who are not Sookasa users.
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