Different By Design

"Our mission is simple: empowering your business with security that’s easy to use, ultra-secure, and designed for your success."

Security Without Complexity

At 3 Steps Data, we believe data management should be as secure as it is simple. Our platform was designed specifically for small to medium-sized businesses, helping you protect and control sensitive information without the need for costly IT resources or complex systems. With a clear focus on privacy, compliance, and ease of use, 3 Steps Data puts control back in your hands. 

Meeting the Needs of Growing Businesses 

Today’s digital landscape demands more secure, private connections with partners, suppliers, and clients—but managing data security and compliance shouldn’t add to your workload. With 3 Steps Data, you gain a cryptographically secure, cloud-based Data Vault that takes the guesswork out of governance and compliance, streamlining workflows and freeing you to focus on growth. 

Built by Experts for Everyday Use 

Our team brings decades of experience from global industries like telecommunications, healthcare, and finance. We understand the real-world challenges businesses face with data security and privacy, and we’ve crafted a solution that doesn’t just work—it works with ease. By simplifying complex processes into a few straightforward steps, we help you navigate security, compliance, and data management with confidence. 

Discover the 3 Steps Difference 

Explore how 3 Steps Data can enhance your business’s security and operational efficiency without the usual headaches. Schedule a personalised demonstration to see how we can help you focus on what matters most: your customers and your growth. 


Meet the Founders

  • Founder/CEO

    Kim Chandler McDonald is a globally respected thought leader in disruptive innovation, transformational trends, and strategic foresight. As the visionary Co-Founder and CEO of 3 Steps Data and FlatWorld Integration, she has led her companies to the forefront of technological advancements in cybersecurity, data sharing, observability, and governance across disparate systems.

    Kim is a board member of and the Global Vice President of the Cybersecurity Advisors Network (CyAN), the Paris-based, multidisciplinary, international trust network of cyber professionals. In this role she drives strategic growth, community engagement, and leads their Combatting Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Violence initiative.

    An award-winning author, Kim’s latest work, ‘An Interviewer’s Guidebook - Turning Conversations Into Captivating Stories’, joins her other titles: ‘Innovation: How Innovators Think, Act and Change Our World’, ‘Flat World Navigation: Collaboration and Networking in the Global Digital Economy’, and ‘Postcards From Tomorrow’ (with all proceeds from Postcards going to Lou’s Place, Sydney’s only daytime drop-in center for female victims of domestic abuse and coercive control). She is also the co-author of ‘Entrepreneurial Renaissance: Cities Striving Towards an Era of Renaissance and Revival’.

  • Founder/CTO

    Michael is a globally seasoned Entrepreneur and consultant, delivering successful outcomes for companies ranging from startups to multinationals, in industry sectors including Telecommunications, Resources/Energy, Financial Services, Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Media, Defence, Civil Engineering, Retail, Insurance and Healthcare.

    Michael is at the leading-edge of global technologies and practices. While also being deeply experienced in Enterprise and legacy technologies/environments, he can imagine, create, and deliver solutions that satisfy often complicated business and technical demands.