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Acante is an enterprise IT and cloud infrastructure software company. Acante can be broadly described as a “Dynamic Data Operations” company. The team has developed a novel approach to “dynamic data access control” (DDAC) for the data used in run-time applications. DDAC is a new term we have coined to describe an industry sector that does not yet exist. A major security vulnerability exists today because there is no way to understand the relationship between end users who access applications, then the sensitive data assets that are accessed by the applications on the user’s behalf. Acante strives to be the first company to monitor, then enforce policies, on the dynamic data access all the way back to the end users.
Gary Smerdon
CEO and Founder
David Reed
CTO and Founder
Carl Waldspurger
Chief Scientist
Bobby Minnear
VP of Engineering
Adam Bane
VP of Product Management
Eric Fitzpatrick
VP of Solutions Engineering
Nilesh Shah
VP of Business Development
Juhi Muthal
Director of Marketing
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