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Every few years, a new technology takes the world by storm and threatens to completely change the way we use computers. A few months after this technology begins picking up steam, come the security solutions that go along with it. From desktops to servers, mobile devices to wireless networks – everyone needs security. With the break of every new technology, companies will pop up and tell you how riddled with holes it is, and why we absolutely have to buy their specially-designed solutions as soon as humanly possible. These claims will always make sense, as behind these companies stand folks who make a living off finding these back doors and loop holes, and can demonstrate these acts of digital larceny. Hypothetically, of course.

This is a well known technique used by organizational security managers to raise their expense budgets. It seems that no commercial body is working to subdue this trend. From journalists to analysts, start-ups to IT managers – everyone is looking for the next big break that will bring the cash flowing with it.

Navajo Systems, who just received a seed investment from the Jerusalem-based JVP is playing it safe, and placing its chips on several new buzzwords that we all have to watch out for. The start-up offers real-time security for cloud-based systems that offer Software as a Service (SaaS). You must admit, with the direction internet computing seems to be taking, this is something we’ll all need, sooner rather than later.

Navajo Systems’ solution is based on data encryption, a very logical choice, and surely fit to send application information outside the organization – to the cloud and back. The question, of course, is why aren’t start-ups who make cloud and SaaS products incorporate these security measures for us, before selling us their new systems.

Navajo Systems was founded by Dan Gross, who is the company’s acting CEO, Dr. David Moshkovitz, and Doron Avraham. StartUpMania’s first advice to the three would be to release some preliminary logo, so we’d have something to stick on the front page.

Translated by Itai Rosenbaum