NEW YORK, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — L’Oreal Women in Digital is proud to announce the charter members of the L’Oreal Women in Digital Advisory Board, which will serve as models of inspiration and innovation for participants in the program. L’Oreal’s Women in Digital Program focuses on women working in digital marketing, technology and IT functions by providing recognition, testing opportunities and recruitment opportunities focusing on how technology is revolutionizing the beauty industry.

The L’Oreal Women in Digital Advisory Board will help select the winners of the 5 “NEXT Generation Awards,” which will honor top rising female entrepreneurs managing and leading technology-driven companies. The entry period for the L’Oreal Women in Digital Next Generation Awards is open now through May 30th on www.lorealwomenindigital.com and is in partnership with the L’Oreal NEXT FUND.  In addition, the Board will help shape the program and participate in key events.

“With L’Oreal Women in Digital, we at L’Oreal USA have a unique position within the beauty industry to shape the way technology is developed by and for women,” stated Marc Speichert, Chief Marketing Officer, L’Oreal USA.  “As leaders in the industry The L’Oreal Women in Digital Advisory Board will offer their insight and expertise and help shape the next generation of innovation from women in the digital space.”

The L’Oreal Women in Digital Advisory Board members are:

Joanne Bradford
Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer, Demand Media

Shaherose Charania
CoFounder and CEO, Women 2.0

Carolyn Everson
Vice President, Global Marketing Solutions, Facebook

Arianna Huffington
President and Editor-in-Chief, Huffington Post

Jalak Jobanputra                                                                                                                    Managing Director and Founding Partner, RTP Ventures

Karin Klein
Business Development, Acquisitions and Strategy, Bloomberg L.P.

Katie Rae
Managing Director, TechStars Boston

Rudina Seseri
Partner, Fairhaven Capital

Shelley Zalis
CEO, Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange

L’Oreal USA Internal Women in Digital Program

As part of the ongoing commitment to supporting women in digital career paths at L’Oreal USA, L’Oreal will be hosting internal meetings, events, speakers and workshops for all L’Oreal USA employees. The goal of these gatherings will be to provide internal support, inspiration and mentoring for all women at L’Oreal already working or interested in working in digital and IT functions.

The L’Oreal NEXT Fund

The NEXT Fund stands for New Experimental Testing Fund. The NEXT Fund was established in 2011 as a separate corporate media fund that invests in the latest digital technologies, digital pilot programs, incubation programs and large-scale corporate sponsorships. L’Oreal USA will be allocating a percentage of the fund to primarily test and support female owned and co-owned companies.  Cash awards and testing opportunities can be submitted on an on-going basis at www.lorealwomenindigital.com. Potential experiments submitted through the site will be evaluated on a monthly basis.

L’OREAL USA

L’Oreal USA, headquartered in New York City, with 2011 sales of $5 billion and 9,800 employees, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of L’Oreal SA, the world’s leading beauty company. In addition to corporate headquarters in New York, L’Oreal USA has Research and Innovation, Manufacturing and Distribution facilities across six other states including New Jersey, Kentucky,Arkansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Texas.

L’Oreal’s impressive portfolio of brands includes Lancome, Giorgio Armani Beauty, Yves Saint Laurent Beaute, Viktor & Rolf, Diesel, Cacharel, L’Oreal Paris, Garnier, Vichy, La Roche-Posay, L’Oreal Professionnel, Kerastase and Shu Uemura Art of Hair. The U.S. is the base for the product development, international marketing and advertising for L’Oreal’s twelve American brands: Maybelline New York, Soft-Sheen.Carson, Kiehl’s Since 1851, Ralph Lauren Fragrances, Essie Cosmetics, Redken 5th AvenueNYC, Matrix, Mizani, Pureology, SkinCeuticals and Dermablend.  For more information on our brands visit www.lorealusa.com.

 

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Atlanta, Georgia – McKenney’s, Inc., the Southeast’s leader in building automation and security, announced today that they have joined forces with Cylance, Inc., a global leader in cybersecurity technology and services, to provide customers with industrial control systems (ICS) security assessments, incident response, best practices in cybersecurity services and on-site training.

With over six decades of experience as a mechanical systems and services provider, McKenney’s is bringing to market an advanced understanding of physical, social and cyber threats to buildings and campus facilities. The partnership between McKenney’s and Cylance ensures that essentially all elements of building security—from automated ID cards to doors, lights, thermostats, HVAC and elevators—will be protected.

‘Cylance has identified that one of the most vulnerable and least thought about entry to the networks and physical presence of an organization is through ICS. As a leading building automation and security company, McKenney’s took the initiative to ensure our customers have the deepest expertise at their disposal to ensure their facilities are protected,” said Leroy Walden, vice president of McKenney’s Automation & Control Solutions (ACS).

Planned offerings include a comprehensive training program to help customers understand, identify and rectify ICS vulnerabilities and best practices in security operations. Courses will be provided off-site at the McKenney’s headquarters campus in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as on-site at customers’ facilities. The courses include:

Control Systems for IT Professionals
Network Best Practices for System Integrators

Additional course detail, dates and cost are available on the respective company web sites at www.mckenneys.com and www.cylance.com.

Cylance was founded by an elite team of security experts, including Stuart McClure, lead author of Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets & Solutions, founder of Foundstone, Inc., and former Global Chief Technology Officer of McAfee, Inc.; and Ryan Permeh, founder of eEye and former Chief Scientist of McAfee. They have literally built parts of the cybersecurity infrastructure used to defend and protect organizations today and know the strengths of the attacks and weaknesses of the defenses. Additional Cylance team members have renowned expertise in critical infrastructure, embedded systems, ICS, forensics and incident response. Combining research and practical experience with a highly intelligent threat engine, Cylance provides unparalleled attack insight and mitigation.

‘Partnering with McKenney’s validates Cylance’s deep understanding of ICS and helps building management prevent attacks through vulnerable mission control elements of the facility,” said Stuart McClure, Cylance’s CEO. ‘We are very excited to be the trusted advisor for the McKenney’s ACS team.”

About McKenney’s

McKenney’s is the Southeast’s most trusted name in facility construction, operation and maintenance. For more than six decades, our proven approach has ensured high-quality, energy efficient solutions at every stage of a building—Design, Build, Manage and Maintain. McKenney’s offers expertise in HVAC, process piping, plumbing, and building automation and control systems, as well as service and maintenance. Our in-house engineering, fabrication, installation and commissioning resources ensure cost-effective delivery of the highest quality solutions. For more information, please visit www.mckenneys.com.

About Cylance, Inc.

Cylance, Inc. is a global provider of cybersecurity products and services that is changing the way companies, governments and end users proactively solve the world’s most difficult security problems. Through a holistic security process called Presponse™, a philosophical, practical and cyclical approach, Cylance couples the understanding of a hacker’s mentality with algorithmic intelligence and technology to be truly predictive and preventive against advanced threats. Powered by a global user community and an elite team of security experts, Cylance is solving very large and complex problems simply and elegantly. For more information, visit www.cylance.com.

Exoprise Monitoring Capabilities and Vaultive Persistent Encryption Tackle Cloud Adoption Hurdles

New York, NY and Waltham, MA —April 9, 2013 –Vaultive, a provider of persistent encryption gateways to retain ownership and control of cloud data, and Exoprise, a provider of cloud based monitoring and assessment solutions, have launched a strategic alliance to jointly increase the adoption of cloud-based services, such as Microsoft Office 365.  The strategic alliance brings together Exoprise’s real-time monitoring solutions that provides customers complete visibility into cloud application performance along with Vaultive’s ability to address governance and compliance requirements for cloud data to enable accelerated adoption of Office 365 services.

Cloud-based services promise greater flexibility, operational improvements and cost efficiencies for enterprises. Microsoft Office 365 can deliver compelling value and secure enterprise email infrastructure more effectively than many organizations could achieve independently. In order to take advantage of cloud computing benefits, organizations must gain a clear understanding of their readiness for the cloud, ensure that they maintain ongoing visibility into infrastructure now provided by a third party and, critically, retain ownership of their data in the cloud. With this strategic alliance, Vaultive and Exoprise deliver to customers a set of market-leading tools and technologies to directly address these requirements, and facilitate an efficient and secure migration to Office 365.

“The key value proposition that Exoprise and Vaultive bring to the table is providing a set of complementary solutions in the Office 365 ecosystem. The outcome of this alliance is a reinforcement of our common value proposition of accelerating cloud adoption for customers,” said  George Nichols, Exoprise CEO.

Exoprise’s cloud readiness and critical performance analytics solutions enable customers to build the business case for moving to the cloud and IT managers to monitor cloud application . CloudReady Insight delivers a set of automated tools to map and analyze internal system and user population for cloud readiness; while CloudReady Monitor tracks the speed and reliability of cloud services through synthetic-based monitoring along with crowd sourcing.

Vaultive is designed as a platform for long-term cloud data ownership and control needs, with a focus on Microsoft Office 365. Vaultive enables Office 365 customers to protect their cloud data throughout its lifecycle, incorporating not only data at rest and data in transit but also data in use. Vaultive’s encryption-in-use capabilities enable data to be searched, sorted and indexed without requiring the data to be decrypted in a third-party environment. Businesses can maintain full control over their data regardless of where it is stored and processed. Enterprise IT continues to retain the encryption keys, even when data resides in the cloud.

Aimed specifically at customers that want to adopt best practices for cloud computing, including those advocated by the Cloud Security Alliance, Vaultive and Exoprise will deliver a set of solutions for governance, security, IT management and service visibility requirements.  Even as Office 365 customers benefit from Microsoft’s ongoing investments in securing, managing and monitoring the Office 365 environment, customers can retain ownership and control of their emails in the cloud through retention of the encryption keys.

“Exoprise establishes the foundation for a successful migration to the cloud, an outcome entirely in line with our own goals. Together, our companies meet the challenges associated with cloud migration and cloud data ownership and control head on,” said Maayan Tal, co-founder and CTO of Vaultive. “We look forward to working with Exoprise to enable its customers to experience the benefits of our advanced cloud encryption technology.” 

About  Exoprise

Exoprise is focused on driving the adoption and retention of cloud based applications with its CloudReady assessment and monitoring solutions. CloudReady Insight is a cloud-based assessment that helps customers build a business case to move to the cloud with a focus on cost, user readiness and migration planning. Once in the cloud, CloudReady Monitor provides real-time performance visibility from behind the firewall to the cloud and back. This synthetic based monitoring also leverages crowd sourced data to ensure the best possible performace.  The Exoprise assessment and monitoring solutions helps customers get to the cloud faster and keeps them there longer. Visit Exoprise at www.exoprise.com.

About Vaultive

Vaultive is a provider of persistent encryption gateways to retain ownership and control of cloud data. Vaultive’s encryption secures data at rest, data in transit and data in use in a format that can be searched, sorted and indexed — while the organization’s IT department retains control of the encryption keys. This addresses the principal business challenges of migrating data to the cloud including data security, regulatory compliance, unauthorized data disclosure and access, and international privacy/ data residency regulations. Optimized for Microsoft® Office 365, the Vaultive platform supports best practices for the control and ownership of corporate data in the cloud as outlined by the Cloud Security Alliance. Vaultive has raised more than $10 million from leading venture capital firms .406 Ventures, New Science Partners, Harmony Partners and Security Growth Partners. For more information, visit www.vaultive.com or follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/vaultive.

For additional information, contact:

Patrick Carey
VP Product Management & Marketing
781-209-5653 x400

patrick@exoprise.com