Zscaler already has a sizeable business: it offers solutions for web security, email security, securing corporate data on mobile devices and data loss prevention, which it offers on a single platform to its clients.
For every Dropbox, which offers online data storage primarily to consumers and is valued at $4 billion, there are two unheralded companies like Zscaler, a provider of online corporate data security, and Palantir, which does predictive data analysis, valued at more than $1 billion.
According to some of our Forbes investment newsletter gurus, opportunities abound in areas like data security, wireless handsets and services, corporate data centers and niche semiconductors.
Ensuring the cloud data security is a major concern for corporate cloud subscribers and in some cases for the private cloud users.
Dell said Tuesday that it had agreed to buy SonicWall, a privately held provider of data security measures for businesses, to continue expanding its corporate services offerings.
The digitalization of communication, energy and transportation also raises risks and challenges, not the least of which are guaranteeing network neutrality, preventing the creation of new corporate monopolies, protecting personal privacy, ensuring data security and thwarting cybercrime and cyber terrorism.
For those who need to meet even stricter corporate, contractual and regulatory compliance requirements for data security, Amazon also recently introduced a dedicated (and pricey) Hardware Security Module for managing sensitive data and encryption keys in Amazon's cloud.
Victims of spear phishing include people who oversee corporate security, said Larry Ponemon, chairman of the Ponemon Institute, a research company in Traverse City, Mich., that focuses on data security.
There is little doubt that data security managers are struggling to keep tabs on sensitive information as employees start importing data to their personal devices, inevitably lose them and download mobile apps that have access to corporate assets.
