Security News > 2020 > August > Patrick Harr becomes CEO of SlashNext

SlashNext announced that security and cloud services veteran Patrick Harr has joined the company as CEO. With a proven track record of leading security and cloud startups, as well as Fortune 100 divisions, Harr will drive the company's next phase of growth and accelerate its mission to protect the world's internet users from all forms of phishing across email, mobile, web, SMS, social networking, gaming and collaboration services.

Phishing attacks have skyrocketed, with a 350% increase since January 2020 according to Google and 85% of phishing attacks are happening outside of email on mobile devices according to Verizon.

Phishing attacks have also moved beyond credential stealing to now include social engineering scams, scareware, rogue software, phishing exploits and phishing call backs.

"SlashNext is directly addressing the debilitating rise of phishing attacks and is poised to become the go-to solution for organizations interested in protecting themselves against phishing attacks across mobile, web, and networks before damage occurs," said Promod Haque, Senior Managing Partner at Nor-west.

"I'm excited to join a great team, board and company exclusively focused on protecting users from phishing, the number one security threat in today's distributed workforce and mobile world," said Patrick Harr, CEO of SlashNext.

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