Founder & CTO
Cupertino - CA United States
The big idea: In 25 words or less, please tell us how this Fast 50 Nominee is helping to address the planet's problems.
Solidcore's innovative solution improves operational efficiency and eliminates network downtime by delivering real-time visibility into changes and preventing unwanted, out-of-policy IT changes and processes.
Please describe how this nominee is using business as a force of positive change. What technology, idea, or strategy is the nominee using -- and what problem, such as global warming, poverty, or pollution, does it address? (suggested length: 100 words)
Unauthorized and out-of-policy change accounts for 80 percent of IT downtime and 75 percent of security incidents on enterprise systems. Change control improves service availability and is a required aspect of successful compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
Solidcore’s change prevention capability blocks unauthorized systems or personnel from changing critical system files or log data - alerting administrators of attempted unauthorized changes.
With Solidcore’s technology-based change policy enforcement, unauthorized changes can be blocked to sustain compliance and IT availability. All change events can be summarized in reports to demonstrate PCI compliance to auditors with minimal effort, thus reducing the cost of PCI compliance verification.
What are the results, both financial and social? How has the nominee's business performed, and what impact has it had on the problem it addresses? (suggested length: 100 words)
Many of today’s Fortune 1000 companies use Solidcore to gain real-time change control throughout their IT infrastructures to enable successful project implementation, reduce the cost of compliance, and provide highly effective host security to scale. Companies like Convergys, Restoration Hardware and WebEx use Solidcore S3 Control to improve overall operational efficiency, while easily ensuring they meet compliance requirements.
