SCRAM SOFTWARE IS an award-winning cyber security software development company founded by Linus Chang , serial entrepreneur and creator of BackupAssist – a global provider of automated Windows server backup and recovery software for small and medium sized enterprises ( SMEs ) which has sold over 170,000 copies in 165 countries ( customers include the Department of Homeland Security and NASA ).
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SCRAM SOFTWARE IS an award-winning cyber security software development company founded by Linus Chang , serial entrepreneur and creator of BackupAssist – a global provider of automated Windows server backup and recovery software for small and medium sized enterprises ( SMEs ) which has sold over 170,000 copies in 165 countries ( customers include the Department of Homeland Security and NASA ).
Chang was inspired by a real market need for security . “ SMEs started jumping on the cloud bandwagon without giving a second thought to security ,” he recalls . “ What if a hacker breaks in and steals your data ? What if they start deleting data ? There just weren ’ t good encryption solutions available that allowed SMEs protection .”
Chang explains that coding ‘ crypto ’ is not like coding a website – it ’ s a completely different language and highly mathematical . One bug , oversight or minor flaw means the system becomes completely insecure . “ That ’ s why I connected with one of my former classmates ( Dr Ron Steinfeld ) who , apart from being a genius , has become one of the world ’ s leading cryptographers . I engaged him to develop a general-purpose file encryption system that would allow developers like me to develop secure
applications . ScramFS was born .”
Chang spoke with contemporaries in the industry who expressed interest in an API so they could implement hassle-free encryption into their own software . “ The ScramFS encryption system was researched , developed and peer-reviewed over three years by a team of security experts in the fields of information theory , cryptography , compression , data backup and processing including Steinfeld , a
64 May 2018