Industry leaders start jumping on the train

Most recently we've seen the industry leaders in blogs, reports and other authored content begin to take notice of what is happening with data security and privacy. Notably, an industry leader, Cliff Banks of "the Banks Report" has taken notice and written an extremely interesting article on the topic.

In his recent post he explains some of the issues that have become noticeable by the general public and some that are quite difficult to digest. He did a great job of explaining the difficult parts and a wonderful job of highlighting the obvious ones. His coverage on the movement by Reynolds and Reynolds and CDK as well as the leader in private protected data, DealerVault were of great interest. A very important differentiation with these providers is the 20 Million Dollar Cyber Liability Policy that backs DealerVault. DealerVault sells its solution as protected, secure and "dealer-centric" while the other providers sell their solution and are limiting access to their solutions because of the "fear-factor" for liability. As new solutions are born I'll be watching DealerVault and I'm excited to see a company who puts security, process and a guaranty as evidence for excellence as opposed to the "fear-factor" and additional fees for dealers. I definitely recommend the read and hope you take away some valuable tid-bits from his post.

Kevin J. McMillen, CEO
RyanTech Cloud Services
http://www.ryantechinc.com
@ryantechkevin @ryantechinc

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