The story goes: one day a disgruntled employee hacked into his company's human resources computer, printed a spreadsheet of what everyone made and posted it for all to see. Havoc ensued.
That tale (tall or not) inspired Tom Xydis to create Ensure Technolgies 11 years ago.
Today the Ypsilanti-based firm has not only survived the death of its founder (two years ago in a car accident) but managed to grow to employ 16 people, four contractors and the occasional intern. Furthermore, it expects to create 3-5 new jobs in the next few years.
"We have a significant foothold in the healthcare industry and we have great growth prospects there," says Dennis Blanchette, President and CEO of Ensure Technologies.
Ensure has capitalized on companies' increasing need to protect their confidential and intellectual property. How? They create security software and protocols for comapny computers, only allowing people to access certain information if they have the proper passwords and badges. The company was successful selling this technology to small- and mid-size companies and now they have targeted larger businesses, such as health-care providers.
That required some reworking of the firm's technology, allowing it to handle 20,000 users instead of the typical 20-30 users in smaller firms. Ensure has also played a critical part in keeping peering eyes out of company databases and sensitive information off bulletin boards.
Source: Dennis Blanchette, president and CEO of Ensure Technologies
Writer: Jon Zemke
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