SD: How does your company stay ahead of the competition?ĪP: For us, it’s important to develop a product which can be used by everybody, and not only by people who have studied computer science for example. It really depends on your use case, like what kind of data do you want to share and store online and what needs to be protected. Sometimes it’s the research department, sometimes the HR department. We have small teams within big companies, so, for example, the CEOs or C-level executives use Boxcryptor, and sometimes whole companies use it. Furthermore, we have the automotive industry, aviation, lawyers… There is no typical user. Our clients come, for example, from the medical sector and we have hospitals, dentists, and doctors who use our encryption software.
Every company has important data that has to be protected. SD: W hat types of industries need to use a product like Boxcryptor?ĪP: Our clients come from all over the world.
You can also encrypt your local network drives, or NAS (network-attached storage). Therefore, our approach is to offer encryption for any provider you use, and we support more than 20 different storage providers. We also have a solution for Microsoft Teams where you can encrypt your files before you share them via Microsoft Teams. SD: What does Boxcryptor do to help secure your data on the cloud?ĪP: Boxcryptor is an end-to-end encryption solution that allows you to encrypt your files on your local device, on your computer, your smartphone, or your tablet before the data is then synchronized to a cloud of your choice-Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive. So probably, Boxcryptor will also remain the only product within the next couple of years. Ten years later we still only have Boxcryptor and are totally focused on it. Back then, when we started, we assumed that we would have many more different products over the years so we chose a neutral company name for the many products we would have. This then became our product and the company that we have today.ĪP: The company is called Secomba. Ten years ago, there was no such solution available, so my cofounder Robert Freudenreich, who is a computer scientist, wrote our first internal prototype to encrypt files before uploading them to Dropbox. Safety Detectives: What motivated you to create Boxcryptor?Īndrea Pfundmeier: For our initial startup idea, we wanted to use Dropbox to store our data, and we were looking for an encryption solution to protect our Dropbox files. With thanks to Andrea Pfundmeier, CEO and Co-Founder of Boxcryptor, Aviva Zacks of Safety Detectives asked all about her company’s commitment to securing data in the cloud.
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