CyberGrant and Everience: Protecting the Digital Workplace

CyberGrant & Everience: Securing the Digital Workplace -INTERVIEW

Q: The partnership was announced just a few weeks ago. What's the strategic rationale that brought you to work together right now?

Marco Gornati – CyberGrant The market is asking for solutions that protect data where it's actually used — on devices and in daily workflows. CyberGrant was built precisely to address this need, but scaling it requires a partner who manages the digital workplace and IT services end to end. That's exactly what Everience brings to the table.

Andrea Rota – Everience Italia From our perspective, data security has become a structural component of cyber resilience. We manage complex, distributed, and often heavily regulated work environments. Integrating technologies like CyberGrant's allows us to strengthen information protection across the entire digital workplace lifecycle — without disrupting our clients' existing operational models.

Q: Why is this collaboration relevant to management, not just IT or security teams?

Andrea Rota Because digital workplace management has a direct impact on business continuity. Devices, users, and data are tightly interconnected. Protecting data means protecting the business — reducing the risk of disruptions and ensuring the reliability of the IT services that underpin every core process.

Marco Gornati It also comes down to control and governance. Companies want to know where their data is, how it's being used, and how it's being shared. With Everience, we can bring that level of control inside an already established service model — avoiding siloed solutions that add complexity and cost.

Q: Why is it so important to address digital workplace management and data protection together?

Marco Gornati Because data follows the user and the device. If you only protect the infrastructure, you leave the most critical layer exposed. CyberGrant solutions work directly on files, documents, and endpoints — and that approach integrates naturally with the digital workplace management services Everience provides.

Andrea Rota The digital workplace is the new corporate perimeter. Governing it means dealing not just with devices and IT support, but also with the security of the information that flows through it. This partnership was built to address that need in a structured way.

Q: What role does artificial intelligence play in your shared vision?

Marco Gornati AI allows us to automate content classification and protection, reducing human error and increasing policy precision. It's a key enabler for making data protection sustainable in complex, distributed environments.

Andrea Rota For Everience, AI is an enabler of efficiency and resilience. When integrated correctly, it allows organizations to manage increasingly complex IT environments while maintaining service quality and security. The key is that it serves the process — not the other way around.

Q: How do DORA, NIS2, and GDPR fit into the context of this partnership?

Andrea Rota These regulations push companies to strengthen governance, control, and operational continuity. Digital workplace and IT service management must align with these requirements — especially in regulated industries.

Marco Gornati On CyberGrant's side, native data protection, full auditability, and access control directly support these obligations. Compliance isn't an add-on. It's the natural outcome of a well-designed security model.

Q: Which organizations stand to benefit most from this collaboration?

Marco Gornati The partnership is clearly relevant to mid-to-large enterprises and organizations managing critical data and distributed work environments — but it doesn't stop there. More and more SMBs are facing the same challenges as large companies: hybrid work, sensitive data, regulatory requirements, and limited internal resources. For these organizations, having access to solutions that are both effective and simple to adopt and manage is essential.

Andrea Rota SMBs are a central part of our strategy. Many of these companies are accelerating their digital transformation without dedicated internal security teams. With this partnership, we can offer small and medium-sized businesses a data protection and digital workplace model that's scalable, modular, and sustainable — one that grows with the business without introducing unnecessary complexity.

Q: What will you focus on in the coming months?

Andrea Rota Consolidating the joint offering and defining clear use cases for the Italian market. The goal is to deliver concrete value — not abstract messaging.

Marco Gornati We'll focus on bringing a clear, tangible joint offering to market — one that addresses real needs around data protection and operational continuity. The objective is to help companies reduce risk and increase control, without adding complexity.