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Exclusive Networks announced the appointment of Jesper Trolle as CEO with immediate effect. Trolle joins Exclusive from ECS Arrow Electronics, where he is currently President of the Americas, and will be responsible for driving the next phase of growth at the company and upscaling the business.
Gartner defines CPSs as "Systems that are engineered to orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking and analytics to interact with the physical world." The security implications for such systems have been heightened as IT systems, IoT and the operational technology that controls physical systems continue to converge. At the same time, many companies are unaware that they have OT systems connected to enterprise networks; or, they may not be following proper network segmentation or other precautions.
BeyondEdge announced its CEO has been named to the Board of Directors for Building Cyber Security, the leading non-profit organization focused on improving and advancing the physical information and operational technology systems security, safety, and privacy in both the public and private sector. "Leading BeyondEdge for the past ten years, a company with a history of innovation and industry firsts, we selected Amir for his reputation in staying ahead of market needs by focusing on software and automation to deliver highly-available and secure access to technology solutions in the public and private sectors," said Jason Lund, CEO of Building Cyber Security.
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.
"We discovered and stopped a sophisticated attempted ransomware attack," Blackbaud CEO Michael Gianoni has told financial analysts - failing to mention the company simply paid off criminal extortionists to end the attack. As we reported, Blackbaud paid a demanded ransom back in May before quietly notifying the world two months later.
Industrial cybersecurity solutions provider Claroty announced on Monday that Yaniv Vardi has been named the company's chief executive officer. The company appointed him CEO "Based on his proven and repeatable success growing companies significantly in the industrial space from startups to mature, profitable enterprises."
The supervisory board of IDEMIA has appointed Pierre Barrial as the new President & CEO of the Group, replacing Yann Delabrière who resumes his previous role as Chairman of the Board. Pierre Barrial will succeed Yann as the Group's President & CEO. He brings over 25 years' experience with multinational and multicultural tech companies serving both the government and enterprise sectors.
The Brave browser has provoked unhappiness among some of its users after being caught redirecting searches to affiliate links that earned it commission. What this means is that Brave users searching for Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, would have had their query autocompleted so that they ended up on a special version of the Binance homepage that lets the company know that Brave's address bar was the origin of that visit.
Based on a survey of 12,000 consumers across six different countries, the Veritas report found that 40% of consumers would hold CEOs personally responsible for ransomware breaches. How organizations should handle ransomware threats is a matter of some inconsistency among consumers.
Intrusion announced that its Board of Directors has named Jack B. Blount to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are excited to have Jack join Intrusion. He is an experienced executive with a tremendous amount of experience," stated Michael L. Paxton, Vice President and CFO of Intrusion.