Security News
The Thread Group announced the appointment of Vividh Siddha as its new President. Siddha will oversee the group's effort to expand the Thread ecosystem with current and new use-cases across home and commercial applications.
Splunk announced the appointment of Teresa Carlson, an executive with more than 25 years of industry experience and expertise in leading complex business transformations for premier SaaS, data management and cloud businesses, to the newly created role of President and Chief Growth Officer, effective April 19, 2021. Reporting to Doug Merritt, President and CEO, Carlson will lead and work closely with Splunk's sales, customer success and marketing leaders to align and drive the Company's ongoing business transformations across Splunk's go-to-market business segments.
Box announced that Sebastien Marotte will be joining the Box Executive team as President of Box Europe, the Middle East and Africa, effective June 7, 2021. "Sebastien is joining at an exciting time for Box, as we're continuing to grow our international presence and amplify the power of the Content Cloud," said Stephanie Carullo, COO of Box.
I checked in with Morgan Wright, chief security advisor for SentinelOne, a cybersecurity provider; Chris Roberts, hacker in residence at Semperis, a cybersecurity provider; and Alexander García-Tobar, CEO and co-founder of Valimail, a secure email provider, to obtain their insights on what the new administration's cybersecurity priorities should be. As a leader in identity-based anti-phishing solutions, Valimail is particularly focused on email security best practices, as well as email security within the U.S. election infrastructure.
The private sector should be legally obliged to disclose any major hacks of their systems, says Microsoft's president and top lawyer Brad Smith. While only Smith was willing to say categorically that it was Russia, FireEye's CEO Kevin Mandia noted that following an intensive investigation by his team, which included looking for clues in reams of decompiled code, they had concluded that the hack was "Not consistent with China, North Korea or Iran, and was most consistent with Russia."
The private sector should be legally obliged to disclose any major hacks of their systems, says Microsoft's president and top lawyer Brad Smith. While only Smith was willing to say categorically that it was Russia, FireEye's CEO Kevin Mandia noted that following an intensive investigation by his team, which included looking for clues in reams of decompiled code, they had concluded that the hack was "Not consistent with China, North Korea or Iran, and was most consistent with Russia."
Ping Identity welcomed Peter Burke as the new Senior Vice President of Research and Development. Burke will drive product strategy and development across all Ping solutions, helping to further accelerate identity security and make access management simple for businesses and the consumers they serve.
Further strengthening its ability to support customers and partners in their digital transformation and migration to cloud, Avaya announced it has appointed Darcey Harrison as Vice President of Cloud Acceleration, North America. Harrison is responsible for continuing expansion of new and existing customer adoption of the Avaya OneCloud communications and collaboration portfolio.
FireEye announced that Bryan Palma has joined the company as Executive Vice President of FireEye Products. In this role, Palma will lead the FireEye product team to further develop the company's industry-leading product portfolio and optimize SaaS security controls offerings to more effectively protect modern enterprise environments.
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