Purandar Das

Purandar Das, President, Co-Founder as well as the Chief Security Evangelist of Sotero (www.soterosoft.com) has focused on using technology to solve business problems. Throughout his career, Purandar has been working on utilizing technology to solve complex business challenges. He adopts a pragmatic approach that enables business to leverage technology to achieve business goals and power growth. Purandar started Sotero with the conviction that today’s data protection was deficient and that a better approach was needed to protect data. He is a firm believer that security, where the core focus is not the data, is not a viable option. Purandar is a graduate of Texas A&M University (MS – Mechanical Engineering) and Bangalore University (BS – Mechanical Engineering) and is based out of Massachusetts.

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5 Best Practices for Surviving Ransomware

Encryption, Ransomware, Two-factor Authentication / By Purandar Das

Every 11 seconds, a ransomware attack occurs. Organizations now face the daunting reality that no longer is the question “if” a ransomware attack will happen; now, it is only a matter of “when” they will get hit. Is there anything […]

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Passwords: A Fickle Yet Necessary Means to Security

Data Protection, Encryption, Passwords / By Purandar Das

Passwords. You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them. The advent of the web has created a veritable spider web for every individual. What was often a matter of remembering one or two passwords for your computer

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Zero Trust for Data

Data Protection, Encryption, Ransomware / By Purandar Das

Encryption has been around for a long time. It is the holy grail in data security because data encryption translates data into another form, or code, so that only people with access to a secret key (formally called a decryption

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