Provides a Zero Trust Data Protection Platform that enforces record-level data access controls, zero-knowledge encryption, and automated key management to prevent data breaches and ensure compliance with regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and CMMC. By integrating data governance, loss prevention, and monitoring, it enables organizations to secure sensitive information across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments while maintaining traceability and geo-restricted access.
Funding
$2.5M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Organizations face increasing challenges in securing sensitive data across diverse environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructures. Traditional security measures often lack the granularity to prevent data breaches and ensure compliance with evolving regulations like GDPR, HIPAA, and CMMC, especially when data is exfiltrated or accessed from unauthorized locations.
Solution
XQ provides a Zero Trust Data Protection Platform that enforces data-centric security through record-level access controls, zero-knowledge encryption, and automated key management. The platform enables organizations to maintain continuous data governance, prevent data loss, and monitor data access, ensuring that sensitive information remains protected regardless of its location. By integrating with existing systems and cloud environments, XQ offers a unified approach to data security, allowing businesses to control data access, enforce data sovereignty, and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements. The platform's capabilities extend to email, file storage, data transfer, and database security, providing a comprehensive solution for securing data throughout its lifecycle.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes enterprises, government agencies, and organizations in regulated industries such as defense, healthcare, finance, and legal, who require robust data protection and compliance solutions.
Features
- Record-level data access controls based on content, role, and label
- Zero-knowledge encryption to protect data even from cloud-managed service providers
- Automated key management for simplified and secure key handling
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies enforced at the individual data object level
- Sovereign Data Access Control (DAC) to restrict data access based on geographic location
- Sensitive data discovery and traceability to monitor data movement and sharing
- Integration with Microsoft and Okta Active Directory for simplified access control
- Support for various cloud storage platforms, including S3, Azure Blob, OneDrive, and Google Drive
- API for integrating Zero Trust Data security into custom applications