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Bishop Fox announced the appointment of accomplished industry executive, Patty Wright, as senior vice president and general manager of consulting. Wright reports to Bill Carroll, Bishop Fox's chief operations officer.
AttackIQ announced that Ross Brewer has been promoted to General Manager and Vice President of Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific Japan regions. Today, more than 9,000 students in 100 countries across EMEA and APJ are continuing their cybersecurity education with AttackIQ Academy.
Cloudflare announced the appointment of Jonathon Dixon as Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, bringing with him more than 20 years of enterprise leadership experience in the IT industry, working for companies including IBM, Cisco and Amazon Web Services. Today, Cloudflare's global network spans more than 200 cities in more than 100 countries, including 44 cities across Asia Pacific.
MITRE named Dana Jackson as senior vice president and general manager, MITRE National Security Sector, where he will serve as a catalyst for accelerating change in how our nation addresses its greatest national security challenges and drive solutions of national impact. He is responsible for the strategic growth and execution of MITRE's national security programs, including support to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community, including leading the National Security Engineering Center.
SmartBear announced Greg Nicastro has joined the company as EVP/GM of Products and Technology. "Greg's proven track record leading product development organizations to innovate and scale will undoubtedly accelerate our product strategy and accomplishments," said Frank Roe, CEO of SmartBear.
GM is working with industry colleagues, company engineers, and middle school students to make cybersecurity a cornerstone of the auto industry, according to GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. Barra spoke at RSA 2020 on Thursday and explained the company's sophisticated strategy to improve cybersecurity now and in the future.
According to Mary T. Barra, CEO of the automaker, GM has invested $100 million into cybersecurity per year, including the hire of nearly 500 men and women. In 2019, GM reached nearly 300,000 students and teachers across the United States, Barra noted, including with a Society of Automotive Engineers-led interactive cybersecurity challenge and curriculum for middle-school students.
The growth of IoT devices has highlighted the difficulties in ensuring firmware security -- especially where the device and software are initially sourced from third parties, or developed under...
The infamous Mirai and Gafgyt Internet of Things (IoT) botnets are targeting vulnerabilities in Apache Struts and the SonicWall Global Management System (GMS), Palo Alto Networks has discovered. read more
Last Friday, General Motors has announced that the owners of some 3.64 million of its vehicles will have to come in for a re-flash of their sensing and diagnostic module (SDM) software....