Akamai Technologies acquiring Ondat. RangeForce raises $20 million in Series B funding. Labor markets: a dive into the paradox of layoffs and the cyber workforce shortage.

By the CyberWire staff

At a glance.

Akamai Technologies acquiring Ondat.
RangeForce raises $20 million in Series B funding.
Executive moves.
Company news.
Labor markets: a dive into the paradox of layoffs and the cyber workforce shortage.

Mergers and acquisitions.

Akamai Technologies has reached an agreement to acquire UK-headquartered persistent storage provider Ondat. The acquisition will build up cloud computing offerings for Akamai, says Akamai's COO and GM of the company's Cloud Technology Group, Adam Karon, “Storage is a key component of cloud computing and Ondat’s technology will enhance Akamai’s storage capabilities, allowing us to offer a fundamentally different approach to cloud that integrates core and distributed computing sites with a massively scaled edge network.”

Israel and Texas-based cloud security provider Axis Security has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard Enterprises (HPE). Axis Security's Security Services Edge (SSE) platform enables access to corporate and public cloud resources, and "will build on the existing HPE cloud-based security networking company, Aruba, and its Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)," says ERP Today. Phil Mottram, executive vice president and general manager of HPE Aruba Networking, said of the acquisition: “The convergence of Aruba and Axis Security solutions will transform edge-to-cloud connectivity with a comprehensive SASE solution that provides enterprises with the highest levels of security for both IoT devices and all users’ access across geographically distributed locations. Today, we also accelerate our vision to help our customers expand their secure connectivity needs with SASE and private 5G solutions, building on our recently announced agreement to acquire private cellular technology provider, Athonet."

Investments and exits.

RangeForce, a cybersecurity training provider based in Virginia, has raised $20 million in Series B funding. “While the skill shortage plagues cybersecurity, attackers are not letting up. As a result, overloaded cybersecurity teams struggle to build and validate key defensive skills when it matters most: before an attack,” Taavi Must, CEO and Co-Founder of RangeForce, said. “Humans are the weakest link in cybersecurity. By strengthening human defense readiness with RangeForce, organizations reduce their cyber-risk and their human capital spend."

Deep learning cybersecurity provider Deep Instinct has seen an investment from PayPal Ventures this week. The funding from PayPal will help aid in growth for the company across the North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions. Lane Bess, CEO of Deep Instinct, explained, "With the support of our investors, I'm convinced that the future of cybersecurity is on the cusp of a long-awaited change inspiring every enterprise to adopt a prevention-first strategy."

High Wire Networks, a systems integrator and cybersecurity provider based in Illinois, has divested from its legacy staffing business in an $11.5 million transaction. Benefits to the company stemming from the sale include:

"Eliminates debt payments of $3.9 million on an annualized basis.
"Reduces fully diluted common shares by 16%.
"Enables greater focus on faster-growing, higher-margin managed cybersecurity and technology enablement business with backlog and sales pipeline at record levels.
"Puts company on track for revenue from continuing operations of $43 million - $47 million in 2023, representing growth of 59% - 74% and driving positive operating income, cash flow and adjusted EBITDA."

GraphQL security platform Inigo has raised $4.5 million in seed funding, with investments from Engineering Capital, Hetz Ventures, and NextGen Venture Partners. Engineering and go-to-market initiatives are the priority with this round of funding for the Palo Alto-based company.

Swedish security company Securitas has raised the MEUR 300 equivalent in the international Schuldschein market, the company shares. The funding was said to be oversubscribed by more than three times the amount at launch.

Executive moves.

Proficio has hired Jen Ferguson as the company's Vice President of Marketing, and Glenn Williamson as Vice President of Channel Sales.

Cyberstarts has named Emily Heath as a General Partner on the investment team.

Francisco Criado has been appointed Global Channel Chief of Check Point Software Technologies, CRN reports.

Prescient has named Dave Komendat and Mike Howard to the company's Advisory Board.

ExtraHop has welcomed Sylvia Go as the company's Assistant Vice President of Channel for Asia Pacific and Japan.

Silverfort has made five new leadership appointments: Michelle Wideman as the company's Chief Customer Officer, Tarah Cammett as the company's Chief Marketing Officer, Irena Meaden as Chief Financial Officer, Revital Aronis as Vice President of Product Management, and Leslie Bois as the company's Vice President of Global Channels.

Komal Bazaz Smith has been named the Global Cyber Alliance's new Chief Business Officer.

Efraim Harari has been appointed as Chief Legal Officer at Armis.

Baffle has named Sushant Rao as the company's Senior Vice President of Marketing.

Joseph Hoban has joined Sentra's team as Vice President of Sales.

Hewlett Packard's Zerto has named Matt Boris as the company's new Vice President of worldwide Go-to-Market.

Bugcrowd has made four new leadership appointments: Paul Ciesielski as the company's Chief Revenue Officer, Emily Ferdinando as Vice President of Marketing, Mark W. Rossiter as Vice President of Sales-Americas, and Jason Cowie as the company's Vice President of Global Channel Sales & Strategic Alliances.

Auvik has also made four executive movements within their team, naming Bob Feller as Chief Financial Officer, Courtney Harrison as Chief Human Resources Officer, and Siva Ananmalay as Chief Development Officer, while the company's Co-Founder Alex Hoff takes on the position of Chief Strategy Officer.

CybSafe has welcomed Hylton Southey as Vice President of Sales, and Geraint Owen as the company's Vice President of Finance.

Michael Connolly has been appointed Chief Revenue Officer of ThreatX.

Tego Cyber has appointed Melissa Knight as Chief Information Security Officer, and Stephen Semeniw as Vice President of Sales, while former CISO Chris White will sit on the Board of Directors.

DomainTools has named Chad Bacher as the company's new Chief Product Officer.

Conversant Group has made four new leadership appointments: William Cordio as the company's Logistics Captain for the company's Fenix24 Battalion, Gary Schafer as the group's Managing Director, Ed Myruski as the company's Director of Rapid Betterment, and Jeffrey Slapp as Director of Sales Engineering.

Company news.

Cyber Security Works, an Albuquerque-based cybersecurity provider, is rebranding as Securin Inc, Dark Reading reports. The branding change follows an expansion in the company's offerings, says Ram Movva, Co-Founder and Chairman of Securin, "In the past few years, we have added many new capabilities to our offerings. With the shifting cybersecurity landscape and evolving threats, it is critical to implement tools and solutions that can provide actionable and timely intelligence to prevent cybersecurity breaches before they happen. As we forge ahead, we want to become a tech-enabled solution organization focused on increasing the security posture of our customers through our suite of offerings. We believe Securin, as our overall brand name, embodies our vision to secure organizations to build resilience against emerging threats."

Labor markets: a dive into the paradox of layoffs and the cyber workforce shortage.

We've been regularly tracking the layoffs and greater cyber and tech labor markets every week. Big tech companies have been seeing layoffs left and right, at places like Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta (who continues to see layoffs, even into today). Cybersecurity companies, like Zscaler, Sophos, Okta, and Secureworks, are seeing layoffs themselves, but the news keeps discussing a consistent shortage in cybersecurity professionals. What could be behind this paradox?

Clearance Jobs in late January discussed one possible perspective on the cybersecurity and greater big tech labor markets, saying that while big tech layoffs may still continue, the layoffs are more a result of overspending and overhiring at companies over the course of the pandemic by executives. As of the time of the article, there were 530,000 cybersecurity job listings in the United States alone, with a worldwide shortage of upwards of three or four million workers. Dice added in early February that the addition of almost 500,000 employees did not even make a dent in the cyber workforce shortage; rather, the gap continues to grow, with a 26.2% year-over-year increase observed. Forbes emphasizes the importance of cybersecurity teams, which may be keeping the industry more safe from layoffs as well, citing a global survey of CISOs from Heidrick, that shared that over half of the CISOs surveyed were experiencing burnout, with 60% feeling job-related stress. Ger Doyle, a Senior Vice President at Experis, noted that the future may be looking up, highlighting the drop in tech unemployment from 1.8% to 1.5% in January of this year, citing only problems with lack of talent that is qualified to work in the field.

Marketplace

Elon Musk apologizes after mocking disabled Twitter employee (AP NEWS) If you're not told you are fired, are you really fired? At Twitter, probably. And then, sometimes, you get your job back — if you want it. Haraldur Thorleifsson, who until recently was employed at Twitter, logged in to his computer last Sunday to do some work — only to find himself locked out, along with 200 others.

AuditBoard Surpasses $150 Million in ARR Following Record-Breaking Year of Bookings (Business Wire) Company continues rapid ARR growth of 60%+ while generating positive cash flow and gaining strong momentum with IT Risk and Compliance leaders

Kudelski Security Joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) (Kudelski Security) Membership expands early access to emerging threat intelligence and increases protections against cyber-attacks. Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland, and Phoenix (AZ), USA –...

Meta Plans Thousands More Layoffs as Soon as This Week (Bloomberg) Second round of cuts in four months driven by efficiency push. Social networking giant may finalize plans in the next week.

High Wire Networks Sells Legacy Staffing Subsidiary in $11.5 Million Transaction, Turns Focus on Faster-Growing Managed Cybersecurity and Tech Enablement Business (GlobeNewswire News Room) Multiple benefits of the divestiture include: Eliminates debt payments of $3.9 million on an annualized basis.Reduces fully diluted common shares by...

Want data security? Concentrate on cybersecurity training, RangeForce raises $20M (VentureBeat) Cybersecurity training and upskilling provider RangeForce announced it has raised $20M in funding for a solution to mitigate human risk.

SAIC Invests In Cloud Management Company Morpheus Data (Defense Daily) Science Applications International Corp. on Monday said it has made a $5 million strategic investment in Morpheus Data, a software provider of cloud

PayPal Ventures Invests in Threat Prevention Leader Deep Instinct (Business Wire) Deep Instinct is Transforming Cybersecurity with Deep Learning to Prevent Unknown Cyber Threats

Cyber Security Works to Rebrand As Securin Inc. (Dark Reading) Securin Inc. will provide tech-enabled security solutions, vulnerability intelligence and deep domain expertise.

Thoughts on International Women's Day 2023. (CyberWire) With March being Women's History Month, and March 8th the observance of International Women's Day, we assembled some thoughts and quotes with these themes in mind from women in our industry to share

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes ZeroFox with 2022 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award in Digital Risk Protection (GlobeNewswire News Room) Company solidifies its positioning as the leader in Digital Risk Protection for a decade...

OpenSSF Membership Growth Signals Technical Communities’ Continued Commitment to Investing in Security - Open Source Security Foundation (Open Source Security Foundation) The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) welcomes eight new members from leading technology firms. The total number of OpenSSF members is currently over 100 and organization membership saw an 88% growth in 2022 from a variety of different sectors. New OpenSSF general member commitments include those from Amesto Fortytwo, Code Intelligence, Kusari, Privado, Scotiabank, Technology Innovation Institute (TII). New associate members include the Open Source Business Alliance - Bundesverband für digitale Souveränität e.V. and Python Software Foundation. We are happy to see that technical communities continue to demonstrate a strong commitment to investing in security now and for the future.

New cybersecurity offering brings hope to Darktrace shares (Opto) The UK cybersecurity start-up is pinning hopes on its Newsroom system after a difficult year and an investigation over its operations.

Crowdstrike stock rises on Dell partnership (Yahoo News) Yahoo Finance Live’s Rachelle Akuffo breaks down the rise in stock for Crowdstrike.

Nightmare on Wall Street: Hub Security’s value plummets after SPAC merger (CTech) The cyber company's promises to issue on the Nasdaq at a value of $1.3 billion seem like a distant memory after its share price collapsed by more than 37% within three trading days, to a market cap of $157 million

Atlassian to Eliminate 500 Jobs in Latest Software Cutbacks (Bloomberg) Atlassian Corp. will cut about 5% of its workforce, or 500 full-time employees, becoming the latest software company to eliminate jobs.

Zscaler Lays Off Workers to Focus on Profitability (ChannelE2E) Cloud security vendor Zscaler announced layoffs of 3% of its workforce after what it called a rough fiscal second quarter.

Inigo Raises $4.5 Million to Help API and Platform Teams Fully Manage and Secure GraphQL APIs (GlobeNewswire News Room) The seed funding will enable Inigo to scale product development and sales as it provides organizations with end-to-end GraphQL API management, governance,...

HPE acquires Axis Security in war against WFH cyber threats (ERP Today) HPE has announced its plans to acquire Axis Security to enhance its SASE solution for HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud

The Top 3 Growth Stocks in Cybersecurity (InvestorPlace) These cybersecurity stocks have been exhibiting tremendous growth, and trading in the green while the market remains in a fix.

Zscaler stock sheds more than 10% as cybersecurity company has 'a lot more explaining to do' (Morningstar, Inc.) Analysts debate whether revenue or billings more important for cloud-software company in tough environment for big tech deals

Zscaler Lays Off 3% of Staff Amid Delays Closing Large Deals (Gov Info Security) Zscaler has axed nearly 180 workers after more deliberation from new customers around large purchasing decisions led to reduced billings growth. The company

What Happens When Cybersecurity Unicorns Lose Their Horns? (Bank Info Security) In the 21-month stretch from October 2020 to June 2022, a whopping 48 cybersecurity startups received ten-figure valuations as investors evaluated prospects on potential rather than performance. Now that the financial boom has gone bust, what happens to these unicorns from a different economic era?

Kaspersky Acquires Major Stake in Container Security Solutions Developer Ximi Pro (Fast Mode) Kaspersky acquires 49% of container security solutions developer Ximi Pro

Akamai acquires Ondat to strengthen its cloud computing offerings (Help Net Security) Akamai Technologies reached a definitive agreement to acquire Ondat, a cloud-based storage technology provider.

SentinelOne Recognized as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms (Business Wire) Cybersecurity Company SentinelOne Positioned as Leader for Second Consecutive Report

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Nuspire as Leader in Growth and Innovation for Managed and Professional Services (PR Newswire) Nuspire, a leading managed security services provider (MSSP), today announced it has been recognized as a leader in both growth and innovation...

A Leader, Once More (Sophos) Sophos Named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms

Tech Layoffs: February Marks Third-Worst Month (Crunchbase News) Good news: February layoff numbers for the U.S. tech sector were lower than those in January. Bad news: That’s not actually saying much.

Securitas successfully concludes MEUR 300 Schuldschein funding (PR Newswire) By entering into the Schuldschein market for the first time Securitas establishes a new source of long-term funding for the Group. The issue...

Altamira Technologies Corporation Has Acquired VaST (Business Wire) Altamira Technologies Corporation announced it has completed the acquisition of Virginia Systems & Technology, Inc. (VaST), a Warrenton, Virginia-based signals intelligence mission company.

CRN Names Versa Networks One of 20 Coolest Network Security Companies of 2023 (Business Wire) Also Featured on CRN’s 2023 Security 100 List, Versa Uniquely Equips and Offers Accredited Training for Channel Partners to Deliver the Leading Unified SASE Solution to Customers

Deep Instinct Included in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) (PR Newswire) Deep Instinct, the first company to develop a purpose-built, AI-based deep learning (DL) framework for cybersecurity, announced their inclusion...

Virtru Joins NIST NCCoE Data-Centric Security and Classification Consortium (GlobeNewswire News Room) Joint effort with NIST, Google, Adobe, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and other global tech innovators aims to advance data-centric security at scale...

Products, Services, and Solutions

Netsurion Strengthens Partnership with Deep Instinct for Managed Endpoint Security (GlobeNewswire News Room) Netsurion, a leading provider of Managed XDR, today announced key enhancements to the Netsurion...

Concentric AI and CTERA Partner to Bolster Data Security Posture Management for Customers (Business Wire) AI-based Semantic Intelligence Integration Seamlessly Protects Data, Meets Mandates for Privacy Data Protection, and Mitigates Risk Across CTERA’s Enterprise File Services Platform

Presidio Federal Announces Partnership with Peraton in Service to Department of Homeland Security (GlobeNewswire News Room) Data Center and Cloud Optimization Contract to Include Presidio Federal’s Expertise...

How Orca’s Multi-cloud Attack Path Analysis Enables Strategic Alert Remediation (Orca Security) The Orca security platform offers new attack path analysis capabilities with multi-cloud support to detect cross-account and cross-cloud provider attack paths.

Thunderdome Completes Prototype to Modernize U.S. Cyber Defenses (MSSP Alert) The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has implemented a zero trust architecture to fortify the nation’s cyber defenses.

GrammaTech Introduces Three New Editions of CodeSentry Binary Software Composition Analysis Platform (Business Wire) Company is also offering a free SBOM service that allows organizations to detect open source software in third party components and legacy applications

Boeing says ground-based system keeps satellites free from jamming (C4ISRNet) The company is developing the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical Enterprise Services ground system, which can defend against electronic warfare threats.

Boeing signs off anti-jamming tech to keep satellites online (Register) China and Russia won't be jammin' US sats no more

Deloitte partners Circulor on supply chain traceability (Security Industry) Circulor’s blockchain-powered traceabil;ity technology is used to trace raw materials from source to use.

Acronis Launches New Cyber Cloud Data Center in Toronto (Be Korea-savvy) Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced the availability of a new Cyber …

New controller IP core for secure data (Control Engineering Europe) Data security is one of the most important issues in today's digital age. Increasing system attacks and cybercrime make it necessary to secure data in new ways. Recognising this the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS has developed the MACsec Controller IP-Core, which implements the latest Ethernet security standards.

Next IT & Systems, Leonard McDowell, & XQ Message Announce Partnership on Zero Trust Data for High Value Applications (GlobeNewswire News Room) International collaboration brings a new technology governance framework to drive trust, sustainability, and innovation on a global scale...

Optiv Launches Full Suite of Operational Technology Services (Optiv) Digitization and the heavy adoption of connected devices are enabling organizations to reach new heights and, at the same time, have intensified the threat landscape and extended the attack surface.

ReliaQuest Completes Transition to Partner-First Channel Model (ReliaQuest) ReliaQuest completes strategic transition to Partner-First Channel Model to empower customers and partner network. ReliaQuest GreyMatter, a security operations platform built on an open XDR architecture, can integrate with existing customer investments, accommodating everyone from large to mid-enterprises.

Twitter just let its privacy- and security-protecting Tor service expire (The Verge) Just shy of its one-year anniversary.

SentinelOne and Wiz Announce Exclusive Partnership to Deliver End to End Cloud Security (SentinelOne) Leading Cybersecurity Companies Join Forces to enhance Customers Cloud Security

Akamai Technologies Releases New Service and Tools to Stop Advanced Threats and Drive Zero Trust Adoption (Akamai) Akamai Hunt and Akamai Agentless Segmentation help customers reduce attack surface and time to remediation.

Fortinet Enhances Its Single-Vendor SASE Solution with New Capabilities to Support Work-from-Anywhere (Fortinet) New updates to FortiSASE expand the industry’s most integrated single-vendor SASE solution to further converge networking and security across a unified operating system and agent

Code42 and SentinelOne Partner to Uncover Risk to Data and Accelerate Response to Insider Threats (Business Wire) Leading cybersecurity providers announce their newly available integration that surfaces threats for investigation and contains data exposure

Rubrik Launches Transform Partner Program, Furthers Its Mission to Secure the World’s Data New program enables partners to help customers defend against cyberattacks (Globe Newswire) New program enables partners to help customers defend against cyberattacks

Data-First Security Company Bearer Open Sources Its Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Solution (GlobeNewswire News Room) Quickly identify, assess, prioritize and remediate security risks and vulnerabilities with a fully customizable solution supported by a global open source...

Brivo Partners With Sanico USA to Bring Improved Security to Commercial and Industrial Facilities Nationwide (RealWire) Collaboration Delivers Industry's Most Advanced Access Control Solutions for Construction Site Safety BETHESDA, Md., March 7, 2023 – Brivo, a leading provider of cloud-based access control and

CrowdStrike and Dell strategic alliance assists organizations with cyberthreats (SiliconANGLE) CrowdStrike and Dell strategic alliance assists organizations with cyberthreats - SiliconANGLE

Cassie Expands in U.S. Market to Meet Demand for Marketing Compliance (PR Newswire) Today Cassie, the consent and preference management platform serving Fortune 500 companies globally, announced it anticipates record growth in...

Imperva and EDB Partner to Enhance PostgreSQL Database Security (Imperva) Imperva, Inc., (@Imperva) the cybersecurity leader that protects critical applications, APIs, and data, anywhere at scale, joins the EnterpriseDB GlobalConnect Technology Program as a verified Data Activity Monitoring (DAM) solution for EnterpriseDB (“EDB”) customers. Imperva Data Security Fabric is certified to support agent-based monitoring for EDB […]

Palo Alto Networks Takes On Identity Attacks, Extends its Cortex XSIAM Platform with AI-driven Identity Threat Detection and Response (Palo Alto Networks) XSIAM enables security teams to further consolidate disparate SOC products

New infosec products of the week: March 3, 2023 (Help Net Security) The featured infosec products this week are from: Appdome, Fastly, Forescout, ManageEngine, and Veeam Software.

Viasat Launches Cybersecurity Service Using Classified Threat Intelligence to Help Protect U.S. Businesses and Critical Infrastructure (PR Newswire) Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, today announced the launch of its Trusted Cybersecurity Services (TCS) solution, a...

PremierVPN Launches Fully Dedicated VPN Service for Business and Individual Users, Providing Greater Control and Security (PR Fire) PremierVPN, a leading provider of VPN services, has launched a fully dedicated VPN service aimed at both individual and business users. Unlike conventional VPN services that operate on shared infrastructure, PremierVPN’s dedicated server network gives each user full control over their VPN server.

IBM and Cohesity Announce New Data Security and Resiliency Collaboration Advancing Enterprises' Ability to Fight the Impacts of Breaches and Cyberattacks (PR Newswire) IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Cohesity today announced a new collaboration to address the critical need organizations have for increased data security...

Infosec products of the month: February 2023 (Help Net Security) The featured infosec products this month are from: Arkose Labs, Cequence Security, CyberGRX, CyberSaint, Deepwatch, DigiCert, and more.

PC Magazine Selects Data443’s Ransomware Recovery Manager as One of the Best Ransomware Protections for 2023 (GlobeNewswire News Room) Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc. (“Data443”) (OTCPK: ATDS), a data...

Sumsub introduces Travel Rule solution for crypto businesses (PR Newswire) Sumsub, a global tech company that provides customizable KYC, KYB, AML and transaction monitoring solutions, has launched a Travel Rule...

New Fortinet releases provide better protection for operational technology environments - SiliconANGLE (SiliconANGLE) Cybersecurity firm Fortinet Inc. today announced enhanced products and services for operational technology environments as an expansion of the its Security Fabric for OT.

WatchGuard’s XDR Solution, ThreatSync, Simplifies Cybersecurity for Incident Responders (WatchGuard Technologies) ThreatSync enables a comprehensive and simple-to-use XDR solution as part of WatchGuard’s Unified Security Platform, accelerating cross-product detections and faster responses to threats from a single pane of glass

InfoTech partners with AU10TIX to securely, rapidly verify bankers' identities (ITWeb) The addition of AU10TIX to InfoTech’s solutions portfolio addresses the need for automated solutions to support fraud prevention, risk management and POPIA compliance.

Dashlane Passkey Support Coming to Android (Dashlane) Google released the first Android 14 developer preview, which contains changes that enable third-party apps to manage passkeys.

People

Conversant Group Hires Slate of Senior Leaders to Scale with Robust Customer Demand (PR Newswire) /PRNewswire/ -- Conversant Group, an innovative provider of "Secure First" infrastructure and cybersecurity services, has hired four senior business leaders to...

Proficio Hires Jen Ferguson as VP of Marketing and Glenn Williamson as VP of Channel Sales (EIN Presswire) Leadership Team Additions Help to Accelerate Company Growth and Strategic Expansion

Cyberstarts Appoints Emily Heath as General Partner (GlobeNewswire News Room) Venture firm adds former DocuSign and United Airlines CISO to investment team to nurture portfolio companies building next generation cybersecurity...

Check Point Hires Distribution Vet Francisco Criado As New Channel Chief (CRN) Cybersecurity firm Check Point announced it has hired Francisco Criado, formerly of TD Synnex, as its new channel chief.

Former CSOs from Microsoft, Boeing join Prescient Advisory Board (EIN News) Prescient has announced that Dave Komendat, former CSO for The Boeing Company, and Mike Howard, former CSO for Microsoft, have joined its advisory board.

Sylvia Go to lead ExtraHop APJ channel (Reseller News) Cyber analytics vendor ExtraHop has appointed Sylvia Go as assistant vice president of channel for Asia Pacific and Japan.

Silverfort introduces five new members of executive team (Silverfort) Silverfort introduces five new senior executive team members as it continues to strengthen and grow multiple departments.

Komal Bazaz Smith Joins GCA as Chief Business Officer (Global Cyber Alliance) Komal Bazaz Smith is joining the Global Cyber Alliance as its Chief Business Officer.

Armis Appoints Efraim Harari as Chief Legal Officer (Armis) Proven leader joins high-growth asset visibility and security company

Baffle Appoints Sushant Rao as Senior Vice President of Marketing (GlobeNewswire News Room) Experienced leader in B2B software and cloud services to expand global presence...

Sentra Expands Executive Team With Appointment of Joseph Hoban as Vice President of Sales (PR Newswire) Sentra, a cloud data security company, has appointed Joseph Hoban to vice president of sales. In his new role, Hoban will draw from more than...

Zerto Appoints Matt Boris as Vice President of Global Go-to-Market (Business Wire) Experienced Leader to Drive Strategic Growth and Expansion of Zerto within HPE

Bugcrowd Hires Four Security Industry Leaders to Drive Go-to-Market Efforts (PR Newswire) Bugcrowd, the leader in crowdsourced cybersecurity, today announced the appointment of three veteran security industry executives to drive...

Auvik Strengthens Leadership Amidst Accelerated Growth as Demand for Enterprise Network Management and Monitoring Surges (Auvik Networks Inc.) Auvik, an award-winning provider of cloud-based network management software, today announced four new appointments to the executive leadership team amidst an accelerated growth phase for the company.

CybSafe Appoints Hylton Southey and Geraint Owen as VPs of Sales and Finance (CybSafe) These new appointments reinforce the CybSafe's commitment to expanding its global reach and accelerating growth in the US market.

ThreatX Welcomes New Chief Revenue Officer Michael Connolly to Executive Bench, Reports Strong 2022 Momentum (Business Wire) The leading API and application protection platform reports record number of new customers, responding to demand for powerful protection that doesn’t burden overworked security teams

Tego Cyber Inc. Announces Changes and Additions to Management Team (Yahoo) Tego Cyber Inc. (OTCQB:TGCB), a cybersecurity software-as-a-service (SaaS) company focused on innovation in threat correlation and threat hunting powered by curated, highly contextual threat intelligence, today announced the appointment of Melissa Knight as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Stephen Semeniw as Vice President of Sales. Former CISO Chris White will remain on the Board of Directors. All appointments are effective immediately.

DomainTools Expands Executive Team, Appoints Chad Bacher as Chief Product Officer (DomainTools) DomainTools, the global leader for Internet Intelligence, today announced the expansion of its C-suite leadership team with the appointment of Chad Bacher as Chief Product Officer (CPO.) As CPO, Bacher is responsible for DomainTools’ product vision, strategy, and execution and oversees the Company’s Product, Engineering, Architecture and Research teams. […]