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Vancouver, BC, March 30, 2021--(T-Net)--Galvanize, a global leader in SaaS governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software, announced that the company will now provide regional hosting in Africa and South America via local AWS Regions - AWS Africa (Cape Town) and AWS South America (São Paulo) Region respectively.

Galvanize said in a release that this demonstrates the company's commitment to its local partners and customers by supporting their data sovereignty requirements, and in particular ensuring compliance with POPIA in South Africa and LGPD in Brazil.

In addition to data sovereignty compliance, the AWS hosting environment provides customers and partners with numerous other benefits including top performance, the highest levels of security, low latency, continuous availability, and automatic fail-over, ensuring customers avoid having a critical service dependent on a single data center.

"By offering regional hosting in Africa, Galvanize customers who are sensitive to data sovereignty will have the peace of mind that their data will remain in Africa at all times. They'll also benefit from AWS's world-class infrastructure and service. Having a Galvanize data-centre in Africa demonstrates Galvanize's commitment to the continent and its loyal customers. This is another step closer to Africa's adoption of cloud technology as a primary choice." said Dino Carletti, Head of South Africa, Surtech (Galvanize partner).

Dan Zitting, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Galvanize

"Organizations worldwide face a new era of risk and uncertainty as a result of the pandemic. By partnering with AWS, Galvanize ensures data sovereignty in Africa and South America to meet regulatory and compliance requirements. This gives global organizations a unified, automated platform for any and all GRC needs." stated Dan Zitting, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Galvanize.

"Our investment in world class, locally provisioned AWS infrastructure demonstrates our continued commitment to providing a high-performance experience to our customers across Africa and South America. Data sovereignty is an extremely important issue for both our public and private sector clients, with in-country hosting often mandated for public and enterprise organisations. Galvanize is now one of the few global, cloud-based GRC enterprise software providers who provision their services in a locally hosted environment, ensuring data sovereignty and regulatory compliance." stated Barnabas Chirombo, Head of Africa, Revival Holdings (Galvanize partner).

"This is an important and differentiating investment by Galvanize. Data sovereignty is a 'must have' customer requirement and being able to provide local hosting via AWS will give them confidence that these regulatory compliance priorities are being met by best-in-class infrastructure." concluded Roberto Faria, Executive Director, Quality Nextech, Brazil.

About Galvanize:

Galvanize builds award-winning, cloud-based security, risk management, compliance, and audit software to drive change in some of the world's largest organizations. We believe that GRC professionals should be the most sought-after people in an organization, and we're on a mission to unite and strengthen individuals and entire organizations through the integrated HighBond software platform.

With more than 6,300 customer organizations in 130 countries, Galvanize is connecting teams in many of the Fortune 1000 and S&P 500 companies, and in hundreds of government organizations, banks, manufacturers, and healthcare organizations.

Whether these professionals are managing threats, assessing risk, measuring controls, monitoring compliance, or expanding assurance coverage, HighBond automates manual tasks, blends organization-wide data, and broadcasts data in easy-to-share dashboards and reports. But we don't just make technology—we provide tools that inspire individuals to achieve great things and do heroic work in the process. Learn more at wegalvanize.com.

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