COGNITIVE AUTOMATION AND AI Cognitive Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing aren't just about robots and automating tasks; when implemented correctly, they optimize and generate novel intelligence. We make it possible for you to leverage the gold mine you already have: your data. OUR AUTOMATION PHILOSOPHY Today’s enterprise faces several complex and sometimes contradicting priorities to stay competitive: Increase Efficiency Enhance Decision Making Personalize Customer Experience Maintain Minimum Operational Cost Over the past 5 years, Cognitive Business Automation has become the greatest driving force in achieving these priorities and pushing the boundaries of innovation; many organizations now implement an intelligent digital labor force to take on tasks formerly deemed possible only for humans. ​ OUR PROCESS Do you want to modernize your business processes, but you're not sure where to start? We focus on understanding your problem and environment first, assess and uncover the capabilities necessary to solve it, then deliver you the best possible solution. We can turn opportunities and big, visionary ideas into tomorrow's solutions. We'll outfit you with a future-guarded solution, not just a tactical response. We understand that every customer business and digital transformation journey is unique, and the 3 most important gears to ensure success of any digital transformation initiative are: ​ Full understanding of the user’s challenges and clear articulation of the problem statement. Proper vetting of the proposed idea from a financial benefit and technical feasibility standpoints to ensure the business & IT investment is fully merited. Iterative development approach to provide quick incremental value to business and faster time to market. ENABLING DIGITAL LABOR Artificial Intelligence is the capability of a machine to imitate or engage in intelligent, human-like activities such as thinking and analyzing information, natural language understanding, speech recognition, or vision and image processing. These machine capabilities can reduce redundant and error-prone work for human workers. At Cedrus, our team of Data Scientists, Robotic & Software Engineers understands that enabling true digital labor requires building an intelligent software client that goes above and beyond a simple task automation to perform tasks such as: Reading information from unstructured content (such as emails, typed or handwritten documents, social media feed etc.) and extracting relevant key entities, intent and sentiment just like a human would. Discovering data patterns and “training” systems to make predictions or decisions explicit programming. Enabling a machine to understand human speech, digital images, and video content. HOW WE USE AI Use Case 1: Healthcare Company ​​One of our clients, a large health services organization, struggled with inefficient, error-prone processes to update patient information. When millions of providers needed their credentials updated, employees had to verify the provider's authenticity and completeness of information, manually update multiple back-end systems, and email providers to request missing information. The company had a very large team working on the task, processing thousands of emails a day, on a several day delay. This resulted in the team having to sift through huge amounts of unstructured data, extensive operational costs, and elongated response times for their providers. Our team defined iterations and a roadmap to gain efficiencies through an intelligently automated solution. Artificial Intelligence automated the emails and extracted insight, Natural Language Processing trained a bot to see email intent and extract relevant data, and Robotic Process Automation on the back end sent emails where they needed to go. The company was able to implement our roll-out plan with minimal internal disruption, and no change to the customer's experience. Now, the client benefits from improved efficiency, decreased cost, better insights, and the ability to thrive in a competitive market. Use Case 2: Alexa Digital Assistant Our Cognitive Business Automation group is dedicated to helping clients leverage intelligent RPA and AI, with the benefits of automating tasks, reducing costs, and improving user experiences. As a proof of concept, we created a digital office assistant with Amazon's Alexa and AWS Lambda. Take a look here! OUR CORE CAPABILITIES Workflow Managing an end-to-end business process which involves users, bots, and systems, and monitoring and enforcing Service Level Agreements (SLA) and exceptions. Decision Managing and governing business and process decisions, and enabling business users to maintain operational decisions in real time without IT involvement. Content Capture Reading and extracting text and optical marker information from unstructured handwritten or typed content (documents, PDFs, images etc.), to produce structured, labeled output. Robotic Process Automation Automating repetitive user actions/tasks and enabling integration with systems which are closed to the outside world except for user interactions. Machine Learning Discovering data patterns from structured data sources and training systems to make predictions/decisions without explicit programming. Speech Recognition Converting speech signals to a sequence of words, enabling computers to recognize speech as input. Computer Vision Enabling computer software to “see” and “understand” the content of digital images such as photographs and videos. Natural Language Processing Narrowing the communication gap between Computer and Human by extracting insights from natural language such as intent, key entities, sentiment, etc. Read More Here OUR PARTNERS WANT TO LEARN MORE ? Get in touch with us! We're thrilled to answer your questions and help you define a vision. Contact Us

Thanks for your interest! Please complete this form to access this resource. Submit and Go

GOVERNANCE, OVERSIGHT, POLICY, AND CAPABILITY IN CLOUD SECURITY Two converging technologically transformative forces are changing the landscape of IT and security. The world has been steadily embracing user choice – devices, flexible locations and work schedules, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) productivity tools. Businesses must adapt or go extinct. The world is shifting application services and workloads to public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS); enabling speed, flexibility, and reduced cost. As a result, business cloud footprints are growing exponentially and the line between “inside” and “outside” is blurring. Our increasing interconnectedness fosters collaboration, but the ease and speed to share data without proper security checks has created new risks and challenges. Further, because some businesses are making mistakes with personal information, the public has demanded that third party oversight exist to systematically enforce good behaviour with personal and financial data of all types. Now, regulatory compliance mandates are increasing in both number and complexity at national, state, and local levels. Cloud security must be addressed in a way that enables user collaboration and the inherent agility and value of the cloud; while providing enterprise-grade security to “the right things” at “the right time.” It must do this while simultaneously meeting or exceeding regulatory compliance requirements. As more data is moved onto or into devices, applications, and data centers not under direct control; Information security, risk management, and cyber security teams must mitigate risk in new ways while enabling the business to move swiftly and remain competitive using the cloud. We’ve seen many cloud security vendor products that offer solutions to these problems. However, there is a limit to where the vendor can provide guidance to your specific business risks and compliance requirements. Many of these best practices come in the form of policy-specific packaged configurations such as “GDPR Compliance” policy or “PCI DLP Profile,” which are extremely valuable, yet incomplete. Businesses need to establish guardrails on how cloud services should be used and managed, including identity, unstructured data, and enterprise on-premises integrations to name a few. To do this effectively, cloud risk governance groups must be established to carry business level guidance to the technical world of cloud security and periodically measure effectiveness of controls. CEDRUS CAN HELP 1. Cloud Security Advisory: Cedrus assists businesses in building cloud security governance, oversight teams, and the necessary processes for cloud adoption and usage. We help to clarify guidance and capture minimum requirements such as: Legal considerations in engaging cloud a vendor such as terms and conditions, license agreements, or data jurisdictions Compliance considerations in engaging a cloud vendor such as data center compliance, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance, or Service Organization Control (SOC) reporting Information Security considerations for engaging a cloud vendor such as security controls and encryption capabilities Information Protection considerations for engaging a cloud vendor such as data ownership or data deletion upon service termination IT department architecture considerations such as protocol requirements or integration requirements Ready to Get Started? Contact us! 2. Cloud Security Standards: Cedrus assists businesses in the creation of reference documents in the area of cloud security standards and guidelines to be used for internal project teams embarking upon initiatives leveraging the cloud. ​ Step 1: Perform a Gap Analysis that provides evaluation of existing cloud-relevant Information Security Policies and Standards to incorporate into the process, including: Acceptable use Identification and Authentication Application Security Data Classification / Handling Vendor Risk Management Encryption Logical Access Control Compliance Step 2: Create a Guidelines and Standards Document that will outline the security governance criteria including, but not limited to, general standards such as: Regulatory Mandates Enterprise Risk Levels Vendor Trust Criteria Data Classification and Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) Identity and Access Management, Access Control, Privileged Access Encryption and Key Management Mobile and Endpoint ​ Ready to Get Started? Contact us! 3. Cloud Security Capability Assessment: Cedrus also assists businesses with cloud security capability mapping, ensuring that control gaps can be identified and closed and that best practice security approaches for operating in the cloud can be met. We partner with Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and leverage the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) and our consultants all hold the CSA Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK). [CSA LOGO] Step 1: Capability Map - In this process the Cedrus consultants analyze the existing cloud security technology capabilities as compared to the relative guidance provided in the CCM. We assist in determining: Does a capability exist where a control is recommended by CCM? Do any gaps exist where a control is required by business policy? If capabilities exist, are they implemented and managed? Are there redundant tools/solutions in any area? Are tools/solutions cloud ready and/or cloud aware and supported/supportable? Step 2: Create a recommendations and roadmap document to outline recommended solutions to control gaps or under-configured solutions along with a suggested timeline and budget to implement the controls. ​ Ready to Get Started? Contact us!

Thanks for your interest! Please complete this form to access this resource. Submit Click here to download

Thanks for your interest! Please complete this form to access this resource. Submit Click here to download

Thanks for your interest! Please complete this form to access this resource. Submit Click here to download

Thanks for your interest! Please complete this form to access this resource. Submit Click here to download

Our Privacy Policy What is the purpose of this notice? ​ Cedrus is a “data controller”, which means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal information about you. ​ This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Cedrus collects personal information or when you provide personal information to Cedrus. ​ Data Protection Principles ​ We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be: ​ Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes. Kept only if necessary, for the purposes we have told you about. Kept securely. ​ The data we collect about you ​ Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. ​ If you visit our website, we may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows: ​ Identity Data includes first name and last name. Contact Data includes email address, location, job title, company, and telephone numbers. Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. ​ How is your personal data collected? ​ You may give us your details by filling in forms. This includes personal data you provide when you: ​ Fill out a contact form and request information to be sent to you. Request a publication from us such as a presentation or white paper. Sign up for one of our events. ​ Purposes for which we will use your personal data ​ Your personal information may be used to send content, event information and messages regarding our service offerings. ​ The lawful basis for processing includes consent for our legitimate interests to develop and grow our business. ​ Marketing ​ We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. ​ Change of Purpose ​ We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. ​ If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance where this is required or permitted by law. ​ Disclosures of your personal data ​ We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to other parties. However, we may have to share your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes set out above in ‘Purposes for which we will use your personal data.’ ​ External Third Parties such as system software and service providers acting as processors providing marketing management, customer relationship management, and email services. Partners with which we organize events. ​ We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. ​ Data Retention ​ How long will you use my personal data for? ​ We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. ​ To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. ​ Changes to this privacy notice ​ We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated in April 2021. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

OUR TEAM In the Era of Digital Transformation, where a lot of so-called strategic players talk the talk, we walk the walk. We think strategically but execute tactically. One step at a time, we will guide you through your Digital Transformation journey while helping you build skills internally. Our assets and IP, strategic partnerships, and long experience servicing some of the world’s largest firms ensure your success. OUR MISSION Assist our customers on their path to digital transformation. Bring them advice, expertise, and experience to allow them to securely expand their business and streamline their processes. OUR CULTURE Despite Cedrus’ relatively young age, our executive and senior team have been working together, solving large scale problems at some of the world’s largest companies, for more than 25 years. Our DNA and culture are deeply rooted in an uncompromising value system: fairness and ethics, inside and out. While being recognized for their industry and technology vision and leadership, our senior executives and senior managers remain rooted in the realities of projects and customers’ needs. This “shot of reality” is key to evolve our offerings, practices, investments and partnerships. ​ OUR MORAL COMPASS ​ With our customers: Be on their side. Maximize the value to cost ratio. Deliver to exceed expectations. It's no surprise why more than 2/3 of our business is with repeat customers. With our people: Fair chance for all. Merit-based place of work, with accountability and equal opportunity for growth. Our people are held to the highest ethics and standards, and we only hire people that respect and fight for such values. Cedrus is an Active Equal Opportunity Employer, with the mission to prove that business and social responsibilities can co-exist and lead to great successes. We reject and fight against any form of discrimination and hatred and are leading every day by example to eliminate all these forms of inequalities in society. MEET THE TEAM Nicolas Jabbour CEO Entrepreneur and Technology veteran. Leads the vision at Cedrus. At the service of our customers and our teams. Mike Chadwick SVP of Business Development and Sales Responsible for Sales and Partner Strategy. Believes in the union of technical skills and business value through a design-based approach. Passionate about delivering the right solution and implementing it the right way. Ashraf Souleiman Cloud Native Lead Cloud Practice Lead. Helps organizations implement their digital transformation vision and optimize their end-to-end digital experiences. Hanna Aljaliss Cognitive Automation Lead Focuses on developing business accelerators and innovations using process automation and artificial intelligence to derive business process improvement and operational efficiency. Kyle Watson Security Lead Guides and advances the cloud security consulting team. Ensures quality in delivery and customer success. Sets investment priorities in security tech. Charisse Oates Human Resources Provides support in all aspects of employment enabling the team to better serve our external customers. Encouraging employee training and engagement. Understanding benefits, compensation, and safety beyond the expectations of all employees. Matt Hejnas Principal Architect Cloud Integration Competency Lead with deep experience architecting, designing, and delivering integration solutions on and off prem, with APIs and Streams for our customers. Lexi Malouta UX Competency Lead Leads a team of innately curious designers who define the what, why, and how of usable, beautiful products. Paul Ilechko Netskope Consulting Services Lead Provides technical leadership and guidance to ensure successful project outcomes for our Netskope customers, working closely with our technology partners. Chris Dougherty Head of Consulting Guides customers on selecting and implementing appropriate cloud security solutions to solve their business and regulatory needs. Mohamed Maher Architecture & Middleware Solutions Lead Solutions Architect with over 20 years hands-on experience on wide list of technologies. Expertise in designing and delivering solution around Business process automation and process improvements Ez Nadar AI Solutions Lead Head of AI Solutions. Focuses on transforming businesses into AI enterprises through the development & integration of conversational AI, NLP, and predictive analytics into their business workflow. WANT TO LEARN MORE ? Get in touch with us! Do you have a business opportunity you'd like to discuss? We're thrilled to answer your questions and help you define a vision. Contact Us

Line separator GET IN TOUCH Want to know more about our offerings, company, and team? Drop us a line! ENGAGE WITH US ! Need an innovative solution? We can help you solve for your specific business opportunities. Cedrus is an unconventional group of people with deep, diverse experience in solving complex business and technical problems where others can't. Let us help you discover and deliver your next big thing! We have the technical chops. Our team is deeply versed in the latest technology, we only execute with the best tools, and we only recommend solutions we've thoroughly vetted. We have tangible experience. We deliver true value. We have delivered in industries from healthcare, to insurance, to finance, to river barge shipping. Bring us your challenge, and we will rise to provide the business-savvy technical solution you need. You will not be able to find better value than our work. Get in contact below! HOW CAN WE HELP? Submit Thanks for submitting, we'll be in touch soon! JOIN THE TEAM ! We are always looking for bright, driven individuals to join our slightly unconventional team. Are you looking to grow and learn in your career? Not afraid to speak your mind when you create? Want to be part of a team of unlike-minded peers? You may just be a great fit! You'll get amazing experience We have numerous clients in diverse lines of business, with expansive projects that will let you flex and expand your expertise. Our office space rocks Cedrus is located in the heart of Manhattan with easy bike access, endless coffee, and community collaboration and gatherings. We will foster your growth Be part of an awesome team Our team has years of mentorship experience. We keep our team members up-to-date with the latest technology, providing resources for learning, a team learning culture, and supporting the acquisition of certifications. We're an unusual mix of people with diverse experience and a can-do attitude. Our team is motivated, hungry to learn, and eager to contribute and take ownership of their work. You will have remote options Team members have the autonomy to work remotely as needed once they are up to speed with their team's needs and rhythms. WE'RE HIRING Check out our job postings on our Linkedin page . ​ ​ Don't see what you're looking for? We're always looking for skilled talent. Reach out to us at HR@cedrus.digital

Thanks for your interest! Please complete this form to access this resource. Submit and Go

Thanks for your interest! Please complete this form to access this resource. Submit Click here to download