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Verato announced that effective April 30, 2021, Clay Ritchey has been appointed as the Company's Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Mark LaRow who is retiring to the company's Board of Directors after serving as CEO of Verato since January of 2015.
FutureVault announced it has appointed John Shackleton, former OpenText CEO, as the company's Chief Executive Officer. As former President and CEO of OpenText Corporation, he led the company's growth from $60 million to $1.3 billion in revenue, resulting in the company becoming a world-leading independent provider of Enterprise Content Management.
Software developed by data extraction company Cellebrite contains vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution on the device, claims Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the encrypted messaging app Signal. The researcher found that Cellebrite's software had outdated open-source code that had not been updated in almost a decade, despite security updates being available.
ColorTokens announced co-founder Rajesh Khazanchi has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. Rajesh is an experienced leader with a strong track record of developing and delivering innovative products.
The CMMC Accreditation Body Board of Directors announced the appointment of Matthew Travis as the CMMC-AB's first CEO effective April 1, 2021. "We are extremely thrilled to have someone as respected and accomplished as Mr. Travis lead the Accreditation Body.".
CounterFlow AI announced that, effective April 2, Bill Cantrell will succeed Randy Caldejon as the company's Chief Executive Officer. A significant player in the cybersecurity field for more than 20 years, Bill joined CounterFlow AI in 2019 as Chief Product Officer to lead the company's product development.
SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna is making changes at the board level and in daily operations to change the company's security mindset. This project is designed to build security into the design phase of software development and to make security an ongoing instead of an after-the-fact priority.
In a blog post filled with a passionate defense of human rights and internet privacy, Andy Yen, the CEO of secure internet provider ProtonVPN, blasted Apple for blocking its latest update and accused the tech juggernaut of helping the global spread of authoritarianism by "Giving in to tyrants." In the days following a Feb. 1 military coup that seized control of the Myanmar government, signups for ProtonVPN encrypted internet services exploded by 250 times over the previous average daily rate, Yen said.
KPMG's latest survey of global CEOs shows widespread belief that the remote-working trend will linger into 2022 as the world gets to grip with COVID-19. Almost half of bosses surveyed by the accountancy biz said they don't expect a return to "Normal" by next year.
Mission Secure announced the appointment of John Adams as new Chief Executive Officer. Adams joins after recent announcements that Mission Secure closed a Series B financing round and launched a new integrated cybersecurity solution for the maritime sector in cooperation with Ince, an international legal and professional services firm.