Com-X Connects: with Nick Ellis from Progress ShareFile

Com-X Connects: with Nick Ellis from Progress ShareFile

External collaboration is one of the biggest – and most underestimated – sources of risk in today’s organisations. In this episode of Com-X Connects, Nick Cross speaks with Nick Ellis, EVP for Emerging Markets at Progress Software – the company behind secure content collaboration and file sharing platform ShareFile. As businesses accelerate AI and digital transformation initiatives, the need for structured, secure and auditable collaboration has never been more critical. This episode explores how organisations can move beyond email and ad hoc tools to reduce human error, strengthen governance and deliver a more trusted client experience. “If you are not managing your sensitive information in a structured, organised way, why do you think that you’re going to have success with AI?” – Nick Ellis Key topics include: * The hidden risks of external file sharing * Why email creates loss of control and accountability * The importance of end-to-end document lifecycle management * Data governance as the foundation for AI * How to reduce risk without compromising productivity.

Com-X Connects: with Asif Khan from Parallels

In this episode of Com-X Connects, Nick Cross, Director of Sales and Marketing at Com-X, sat down with Asif Khan, Country Manager - MEA, India and Asia Pacific at Parallels, to explore a growing reality facing IT leaders: enterprise workspaces have become too complex to manage, too fragmented to secure, and too expensive to scale. As organisations continue to evolve across cloud, SaaS, legacy infrastructure and virtual desktops, the gap between what businesses need and what IT can deliver is widening. Asif frames the challenge simply: “Organisations are operating in increasingly complex IT environments with a mixture of cloud platforms, legacy systems, browser-based applications, and virtual desktops.” And as these environments evolve, so do the problems.

Com X Connects: Why Continuous Vulnerability Management Matters

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organisations are investing more than ever in cybersecurity measures to confront a sophisticated threat landscape. However, many still rely on outdated point-in-time assessments that fail to keep pace with the dynamic nature of their environments. In this Com-X Connects interview with our Co-Founder, Qui Truong, and Director of Sales and Marketing, Nick Cross, we explore how traditional security testing approaches leave ‘blind spots’ open, and why moving toward continuous validation and remediation is crucial for reducing real risk in today’s era of ever increasing and automated attacks. We dive deep into why old-school penetration tests and ceremonial annual audits simply aren’t enough, and how making security continuous can transform an organisation’s defensive posture and increase assurance to their resiliency from attacks

Com-X Connects: with David Dick from 2Steps

In today’s hybrid and distributed world, organisations invest heavily in platforms, infrastructure and security. Dashboards glow green. Systems appear healthy. Yet users still lose hours of productivity every day because something, somewhere, isn’t working the way it should. At Com-X, we see this pattern repeatedly. Too often, businesses are told everything is fine because a report says so — while the reality on the ground tells a very different story. This gap between perceived health and real-world experience is where productivity is lost, costs escalate, and confidence erodes. This disconnect between what IT sees and what users experience is exactly what 2Steps was created to solve. In a recent Com-X Connects interview, Nick Cross, Director of Sales and Marketing at Com-X, sat down with David Dick, Head of Customer Success at 2Steps, to explore how organisations can finally answer one deceptively simple, but business-critical question: can my users actually get their work done?

Com-X Connects: with Steven West from Colin Biggers and Paisley

Steven West, Head of Technology Operations & Security at the distinguished legal firm Colin Biggers & Paisley, shares his experiences with digital transformation and working with Com-X - both from a technical and commercial perspective. Tasked with protecting sensitive client data, maximising the effectiveness of the firm’s legal teams, and ensuring an IT strategy that delivers today and is future-ready, Steven reflects on what makes their ongoing relationship with Com-X valuable and effective.