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Very Good Security is delighted to announce that Paul Machle, former CFO of Gitlab, has joined VGS as our first Chief Financial Officer. Paul is a seasoned leader whose experience in high-growth companies is ideally suited to the opportunities and challenges ahead for VGS.

We’re thrilled to announce that Very Good Security (VGS) has scored the 28th spot on Growjo’s 100 Fastest Growing Companies in San Francisco 2020. It has been an exciting and rewarding journey for everyone on the VGS team, and we can’t wait to achieve even more growth and innovation in 2021!

It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention, and that proverb certainly rings true for Very Good Security (VGS). The inspiration for VGS came from a problem my co-founder and I lived first-hand while building a large payments company: we spent nearly a year and $1 million to create the necessary infrastructure and compliance certifications to run our previous fintech business.

SolarWinds, an Austin-based IT management software company, was compromised via a software supply chain attack by suspected nation state adversaries. This was considered to be a sophisticated attack that exposed a vulnerability in many infrastructures. The attackers utilized novel attack vectors and tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) to target nearly 18,000 companies and government agencies.

Hackers make and break information technology (IT) for fun and profit. Marathon runners, paying homage to the spry Greek courier Pheidippides, run 26 miles -- just for fun. Thus, a “hackathon” is an extended opportunity to show off your 31337 skillz.

The digital assets of an enterprise have always been difficult to define, locate, and secure. Often, we are stuck simply trying to protect our “crown jewels”, or critical information infrastructure. The more things changed (and grew), the more they seemed to stay the same: some digital assets are too hard to secure, and too big to fail.

At this time of the year, the air becomes crisp and holiday excitement starts brewing. For online retailers, visions of jingle dollars dance in their head as the holiday season represents up to 30% of annual sales. But when sales go up, so does the activity of cyber criminals.

Last week, California voters passed Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPRA). The CPRA expands the existing online consumer privacy protections of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that went into effect this year and clarifies some of its ambiguities.

Secure Your E-commerce Transactions for Compliance and Monetize the Value of Your Data

As you consider how to collect payments for your e-commerce business, you will also have to consider which form of payments to accept. The most widely accepted form of payment for e-commerce is card payment. As a result, you’ll have to determine how to collect card payment information in a PCI compliant manner.