Security News

Arctic Wolf announced that Nick Schneider, president and chief revenue officer, has been appointed as chief executive officer, succeeding Brian NeSmith who will serve as executive chairman of the Board of Directors. Schneider has been the driving force behind Arctic Wolf's explosive growth and market leadership, securing remarkable 100% growth in year-over-year ARR for each of the last seven years.

Ed Dubrovsky, an information security expert and management executive who has built and led cyber consulting practices for nearly three decades, joins Qnext this month as Executive Cyber Advisor to the CEO and Board, it was announced by Qnext Corp. president and CEO Anthony DeCristofaro. Mr. Dubrovsky will advise Qnext Corp. - the award-winning developer of FileFlex Enterprise, a Zero Trust Remote Data Access platform - on security operations, cyber risk and cyber intelligence, data loss and protection, breach investigations and forensics, identity and access management, governance and security architecture.

Ionir announced Mike Wall as its new chief executive officer. The lack of a de facto cloud-native data services layer within Kubernetes, coupled with the inability to overcome data gravity, threatens to slow or stall global Kubernetes production rollouts.

Beleaguered IT management software vendor Kaseya has delayed the restoration of its SaaS services until Sunday, July 11. An update to the company's incident guidance report includes a video message from CEO Fred Voccola, who took personal responsibility for the delay.

Pavilion Data Systems announced the appointment of Dario Zamarian as the company's Chief Executive Officer. "Pavilion's current technology is unmatched, and its next generation will create even more innovation that delivers unrivaled customer outcomes," said Dario Zamarian, incoming Pavilion CEO. "As artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven requirements accelerate, Pavilion is best suited to meet the needs of organizations adapting to data-centric decision making. I'm excited to be joining a world class team and accelerating the company forward."

The board of directors of EfficientIP named Norman Girard as its new Chief Executive Officer, effective June 28, 2021. Girard, a customer-focused and energetic business leader, brings more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, networking, driving revenue growth, and scaling organizations at an international level; he aims to continue building EfficientIP as a leader in the secure DDI space.

While 60% of organizations have experienced a cyberattack in the last two years and spend approximately $38 million on security activities, only 7% of security leaders are reporting to the CEO, a LogRhythm report reveals. Based on a global survey of 1,426 chief information, technology and security executives, the report sought to learn about the role and responsibilities of today's cybersecurity leaders and the challenges they face in creating a strong security posture.

TrapX Security announced that Steve Preston has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. An experienced cybersecurity leader who has served as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Growth for the company for the past year, Mr. Preston will succeed Ori Bach and assume day-to-day leadership of TrapX Security.

The boss of Colonial Pipeline has appeared before a Senate Committee to explain the events which led to US East Coast fuel supplies running dry last month and some $5m being handed over in ransom. Last week, Charles Carmakal, senior VP at cybersecurity firm Mandiant, which responded to the incident, revealed in an interview, that crooks accessed Colonial Pipeline's network using an old VPN and password thought to have fallen into the wrong hands via the dark web, although investigations are still ongoing.

A pipeline company CEO on Tuesday defended his decisions to abruptly halt fuel distribution for much of the East Coast and pay millions to a criminal gang in Russia as he faced down one of the most disruptive ransomware attacks in U.S. history. Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount said he had no choice, telling senators uneasy with his actions that he feared far worse consequences given the uncertainty the company was confronting as the attack unfolded last month.