David Zimmerman, CEO, LC Technology International

A recent headline about the exposure of voter records by a contractor working with the Republican National Committee (RNC) turned heads due to the size of the breach (nearly 200 million potential voters) and how such information was stored in an unsecured cloud account. The records could be browsed without any login at all, exposing them for all kinds of illegal activities. The exposure underscored the need for multiple layers of security needed to manage private data, and the brand damage that comes with failing to protect that information.