Security News
CloudSphere announced the appointment of Jane Gilson as the company's CEO successor to Patrick McNally. In her role, Gilson will leverage her extensive international experience, her background with Software as a Service models and her understanding of cloud customer needs to help CloudSphere scale to the next level as demand for the platform increases.
IBM announced the appointment of Martin Schroeter as Chief Executive Officer of the independent company that will be created following the separation of IBM's Managed Infrastructure Services business, effective January 15. Mr. Schroeter served as IBM's Senior Vice President, Global Markets, where he was responsible for IBM's global sales, client relationships and satisfaction, and worldwide geographic operations, before leaving IBM in June 2020.
Panaseer announces that it has appointed a new CEO to focus on international growth of the emerging CCM security category, which has fuelled Panaseer's growth of 350% in 2020. Jonathan Gill succeeds Nik Whitfield, founder of Panaseer, who will now take on the role of Chairman and maintain an active role in the company as Chief Seer.
SolarWinds and its Board of Directors have named Sudhakar Ramakrishna as the company's new President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, each to become effective on January 4, 2021. "Following an extensive and thorough search, we are delighted to welcome Sudhakar Ramakrishna as SolarWinds' new CEO as we embark on an exciting new chapter in the company's history," said Bill Bock, Chairman of the Board of SolarWinds.
RSA announced Reed Taussig has joined RSA as CEO of the RSA Anti-Fraud Business Unit. As a privately-owned independent business, RSA is one of the largest pure-play providers of solutions for risk, security and anti-fraud teams and host of the world's largest cybersecurity conference: RSA Conference.
A hacker began selling access to hundreds of stolen executive email accounts last Friday, ZDNet reported. Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at cybersecurity company KnowBe4, called email account access the "Crown jewels" for anyone looking to damage an organization, and the accounts of C-level executives were even more integral to an enterprise.
They really know how to mix a perfectly balanced cocktail of software engineering and human insight when it comes to crafting the perfect spear-phishing attack. If a CEO or other C-level exec is hooked, they have the power to deliver virtually whatever the attackers desire - whether it's authorizing payment transfers, or spilling company secrets, or any number of actions only a chief exec can take, unchecked.
Cyber-attackers give the matter a lot of thought, which is why a well-crafted spear-phishing attack can be so hard to defend against. Why do attackers keep throwing out spear-phishing attacks? Well, they're in business, and you have to assume their ROI ultimately works for them.
Stealthbits Technologies has appointed Jim Barkdoll as CEO. A data security veteran with a long, successful track record, Barkdoll most recently served as CEO of Titus, an industry leader in the data classification and security market. To further strengthen Stealthbits' product, marketing and finance organizations, the company has expanded its leadership team with the addition of Mark Cassetta as General Manager, Karyl Parks as CMO and Sarah Foottit as CFO. These additions will bolster the expertise of Stealthbits' existing team, which has propelled the company's aggressive growth trajectory and customer success during a challenging year.
GitHub's CEO has denied that the site's source code was posted to GitHub. News of the supposed leak and posting came from a site called Resynth that linked to a Wayback Machine snapshot of a GitHub repo that purported to be the work of GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and was labelled "This is GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise."