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GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA or the Company) (NYSE: NSA) today announced the Company will release financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2020 after market close on Monday, May 11, 2020. NSA will host a conference call to discuss its financial results, current market conditions and future outlook at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, May 12, 2020. Following prepared remarks, management will accept questions from registered financial analysts. All other participants are encouraged to listen to the call via webcast using the link found on the Companys website.

Conference Call and Webcast:

Date/Time: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. ET

Webcast link available at: http://www.nationalstorageaffiliates.com

Domestic (toll free): 877-407-9711

International: 412-902-1014

Replay Information:

Domestic (toll free): 877-660-6853

International: 201-612-7415

Conference ID: 13692161

A replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days on NSAs website at http://www.nationalstorageaffiliates.com. Any transcription, recording or retransmission of the Companys conference call and webcast in any way are strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of NSA.

Supplemental materials will be posted to the investor relations section of the companys website prior to the conference call.

About National Storage Affiliates Trust

National Storage Affiliates Trust is a Maryland real estate investment trust focused on the ownership, operation and acquisition of self storage properties located within the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas throughout the United States. As of December 31, 2019, the Company held ownership interests in and operated 742 self storage properties located in 35 states and Puerto Rico with approximately 47.1 million rentable square feet. NSA is one of the largest owners and operators of self storage properties among public and private companies in the United States. For more information, please visit the Companys website at http://www.nationalstorageaffiliates.com. NSA is included in the MSCI US REIT Index (RMS/RMZ), the Russell 2000 Index of Companies and the S&P SmallCap 600 Index.

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National Storage Affiliates Trust Announces Date of its First Quarter 2020 Earnings Release and Conference Call - Business Wire

Women are a minority in tech, with an average of three men for every one woman. When it comes to cybersecurity, the imbalance is even more acute.

A 2020 report shows that female cybersecurity experts are outnumbered five to one by their male counterparts. Inside the National Security Agency, cybersecuritys inner sanctum, the ratio is anyones guess.So the fact that a woman not only entered, but conquered and emerged victorious, from the NSA andwith the rights to market the ultimate encryption treasureis a feat worthy of attention.

How did she do it?Math, said Ellison Anne Williams (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Enveil Inc. Math and grit.

Williams spoke withJohn Furrier, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Medias mobile livestreaming studio, during the RSA Conference in San Francisco. They discussed her time at the NSA and how homomorphic cryptography provides the missing link in the cybersecurity chain.

The treasure Williams carried from the NSA is one that has often been described as the Holy Grail of cryptologists: Homomorphic encryption. Developed within the NSA by researchers wanting to maintain security for data in-use,the technology enables data to be handled securely while remaining encrypted.

This week theCUBE spotlights Williams in its Women in Tech feature.

Data security has three parts: data at rest, data in transit, and data at use, explained Williams. The first part involves securing data at rest on the file system and the database.This would be your more traditional in-database encryption, she said.

The second part is securing data as its moving around through the network, known as data in transit. The third part of the data security process is securing data that is in-use data under analysis or search. This is when the data is both at its most vulnerable and its most valuable.

While there are many security solutions for both data at rest and in transit, protecting data while it is being processed has always been the weak point. Data was secure before and after processing but had to be decrypted in order to be accessed, then re-encrypted. Homomorphic encryption solves that issue.

It means we can do things like take searches or analytics, encrypt them, and then go run them without ever decrypting them at any point during processing, Williams explained.

Williams holds adoctorate in mathematics (algebraic combinatorics) from North Carolina State University and two masters degrees, one in mathematics from the University of South Carolina and another in computer science from Nova Southeastern University in Florida.

As an undergrad, Williams was a pre-med student with a plan to study infectious diseases. Instead, she fell in love with math and became an expert in distributed computing and algorithms, cryptographic applications, graph theory, combinatorics, machine learning, and data mining.

After graduating from North Carolina State, Williams joined the research team at the NSA, where she spent 12 years doing a little bit of everything, including large-scale analytics, information security and privacy, computer network exploitation, and network modeling. She also advocated for women to join the NSAs team and mentored her male colleagues.

During her last few years at the NSA, she had the opportunity to work at The John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. It was there that she worked on homomorphic encryption as part of a larger project for the NSA.

Although she had worked in research her whole career, Williams had always harbored entrepreneurial dreams. So when she learned she could declassify some of her research through the NSA Technology Transfer Program, she jumped at the chance to create a homomorphic encryption solution for the marketplace.

The idea of homomorphic encryption is not new. The concept has been around since 1978, but a first-generation fully homomorphic solution wasnt proposed until 2009. Research continued, and second- and third-generation fully homomorphic solutions were proposed. But problems remained with implementing these solutions at scale.

With the launch of Enveil Inc. in 2016, Williams took a bet that by combining the entrepreneurship in her DNA with the results of her years of research at John Hopkins and the NSA she could change that.

Less than a year after founding, the company got the cybersecurity communitys attention at the finals of theRSA Innovation Sandbox. Thats where the conversation really started to change around this technology called homomorphic encryption, the market category space called securing data in use, and what that meant, Williams said.

Williams expected a surprised reaction when the community discovered Enveil had a market-ready homomorphic encryption solution. She didnt expect that big-name early adopters, such as Bloomberg Beta, Thomson Reuters Corp., Capital One Financial Corp., and Mastercard Inc., would be eager to strategically invest in the company.

The enthusiasm is because homomorphic encryption solves the problem of secure data sharing. New technologies such as machine learning rely on ingesting massive amounts of data. Being restricted to just one data source limits the potential for powerful insights, but sharing data resources for analysis is a risky business.

There are also codes and regulations that govern data sharing, such as Europes General Data Protection Regulationand the California Consumer Privacy Act, which limit how data can be managed.Not to mention, people can get upset if they discover a company has a cavalier attitude tosharingpersonal data; as Google discovered withProject Nightingale.

This makes the ability to maintain anonymity and security while sharing data critically important for businesses, especially those in the financial sectors, where the payoff and the risks are high stakes. Say a bank suspects a client of financial misconduct, such as money laundering, and as part of establishing the trail, it needs to verify transactions with other institutions.

[Banks] cant necessarily openly, freely share all the information. But if I can ask you a question and do so in a secure and private capacity, still respecting all the access controls that youve put in place over your own data, then it allows that collaboration to occur, Williams stated.

Homomorphic encryption enables the data to be searched while remaining encoded, so no personally identifiable information is ever revealed and regulation compliance and security is ensured.

Current use casesamong Enveils clients include financial regulation, with banks able to securely share information to combat money laundering and other fraudulent activity. Global transactions are simplified by allowing collaboration regardless of national privacy restrictions. And in healthcare, hospitals and clinics can share patient details to research facilities and remain confident that they are not disclosing sensitive personal data.

After just over three years in operation, Williams is proud of what her company has accomplished. Its really pretty impressive, she said.

It is. Breaking the male-dominated culture of cybersecurity, Williams has created a company that is at the forefront of data in-use security, recently announceda $10 million Series A funding and is looking to expand globally with new product lines that enable advanced decisioning in a completely secure and private capacity.

Were creating a whole new market, Williams said. [Were] completely changing the paradigm about where and how you can use data for business purposes.

Heres the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLEs and theCUBEs coverage of theRSA Conference:

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On March 15, 2020, Section 215 of the PATRIOT Acta surveillance law with a rich history of government overreach and abuseexpired. Along with two other PATRIOT Act provisions, Section 215 lapsed after lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on a broader set of reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

In the week before the law expired, the House of Representatives passed theUSA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act, without committee markup or floor amendments, which would have extended Section 215 for three more years, along with some modest reforms.

In order for any bill to become law, the House and Senate must pass an identical bill, and the President must sign it. That didnt happen with the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act. Instead, knowing the vote to proceed with the Houses bill in the Senate without debating amendments was going to fail, Senator McConnell brought a bill to the floor that would extend all the expiring provisions for another 77 days, without any reforms at all. Senator McConnell's extension passed the Senate without debate.

But the House of Representatives left town without passing Senator McConnells bill, at least until May 12, 2020, and possibly longer. That means that Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, along with the so-called lone wolf and the roving wiretap provisions have expired, at least for a few weeks.

EFF has argued that if Congress cant agree on real reforms to these problematic laws, they should be allowed to expire. While we are pleased that Congress didn't mechanically reauthorize Section 215, it is only one of a number of largely overlapping surveillance authorities. The loss of the current version of the law will still leave the government with a range of tools that is still incredibly powerful. These include other provisions of FISA as well as surveillance authorities used in criminal investigations, many of which can include gag orders to protect sensitive information.

In addition, the New York Times and others have noted that Section 215s expiration clause contains an exception permitting the intelligence community to use the law for investigations that were ongoing at the time of expiration or to investigate offenses or potential offenses that occurred before the sunset. Broad reliance on this exception would subvert Congresss intent to have Section 215 truly expire, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court should carefullyand publiclycircumscribe any attempt to rely on it.

Although Section 215 and the two other provisions have expired, that doesnt mean theyre gone forever. For example, in 2015, during the debate over the USA FREEDOM Act, these same provisions were also allowed to expire for a short period of time, and then Congress reauthorized them for another four years. While transparency is still lacking in how these programs operate, the intelligence community did not report a disruption in any of these critical programs at that time. If Congress chooses to reauthorize these programs in the next couple of months, its unlikely that this disruption will have a lasting impact.

The Senate plans to vote on a series of amendments to the House-passed USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act in the near future. Any changes made to the bill would then have to be approved by the House and signed by the President. This means that Congress has the opportunity to discuss whether these authorities are actually needed, without the pressure of a ticking clock.

As a result, the House and the Senate should take this unique opportunity to learn more about these provisions and create additional oversight into the surveillance programs that rely on them. The expired provisions should remain expired until Congress enacts the additional, meaningful reforms weve been seeking.

You can read more about what EFF is calling for when it comes to reining in NSA spying, reforming FISA, and restoring Americans privacy here.

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Big Brother is watching you appeared on billboards in George Orwells acclaimed novel, 1984, first published in 1949. Today, that ominous warning is rapidly becoming a reality.

In the past two decades, roughly since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government has increased its surveillance of Americans to a level unforeseen, even by Orwell.

Whether it be the National Security Administration, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, or your supposedly benign local government, you are being watched and tracked at almost every turn.

Making matters even more harrowing, the advent of smartphones, GPS tracking devices, social media, and countless other new technologies has made it easier than ever for private corporations to track your every move, thought, and desire. Just think about it: your every text message, Google search, phone call, and email is stored somewhere.

And as we have seen in the recent past, the government is not shy about forcing companies to hand over their users most private data should they deem it necessary. Although there is a need for the work of the NSA, CIA, FBI, or whichever organization claims jurisdiction to access sensitive personal data in extreme cases, such as an imminent terrorist attack, common sense and reality shows that these omnipotent agencies have been more than willing to seek data and information that is well outside the bounds of these strict guidelines.

Fortunately, whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden, a former NSA employee, have exposed some of the surveillance-state actions perpetrated by his ubiquitous former employer. Who knows what is actually happening in the deep corridors of these agencies, however, under the auspices of national security?

Although technology per se is not the primary driver of the increased government surveillance weve all come to expect and accept today, it certainly makes it much easier for governments to monitor their citizens. From a historical perspective, the scourge of surveillance has been alive and well for centuries. The Soviet KGB and the East German Stasi are just two examples of the sordid history of government surveillance.

In perhaps the most ominous current case, consider Communist Chinas massive surveillance apparatus, where every citizen is monitored constantly. Chinas social credit system is the most all-encompassing and terrifying surveillance program in world history.

For better or worse, most Americans are not overly concerned with government surveillanceyet. When we hear about things like city cameras capturing our every move, however, we should definitely raise our eyebrows. Even worse, stories abound over seemingly innocuous government surveillance operations that continue to push the envelope while trampling upon privacy rights and individual liberty.

The U.S. Constitution protects our privacy rights for a reason. Before our victory over Great Britain in the War of Independence, Americans (or colonists as they were then known) were victims of British surveillance and spy networks. Indeed, a primary reason for going to war against the mighty British military was so Americans would be free from surveillance.

Yet, here we are, more than two centuries later, struggling to avoid the onset of our own surveillance state. Although numerous officials from NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. will claim surveillance is necessary to protect the homeland, this is a false choice.

Benjamin Franklin warned us, Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither. This may be more relevant today than ever before.

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Government Surveillance Is a Dangerous Path to Trek - American Greatness

The National Sheep Association (NSA) is calling for the public to observe the lockdown rules more closely.

NSA Chief Executive Phil Stocker explains: There is no doubt this lockdown is difficult. We are all feeling the effect, and NSA completely understands the frustration and the want to get outside. However, we mustnt forget that the fields were walking across are where our food is produced, and by being there we put the people producing our food at risk.

NSA has heard some extreme and concerning stories from its members of people still arriving in cars for walks, picnics and more.

Mr Stocker continues: By travelling to farms you are risking passing on this dangerous virus to a food producing farmer, and that is simply not acceptable. We all know the rules and simply put, travelling to walk somewhere a car drive away from your home is not necessary. We implore the British public to obey these rules and respect other peoples homes and lives particularly as we approach the Easter weekend.

With little still known about the virus, NSA is concerned about viral transmissions on gates, fences and other surfaces. Mr Stocker adds: These risks are very real and if people continue to flout the rules, we have no doubt the Government will be prepared to step things up to protect lives.

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