Security News
Infocyte announced that it has expanded its executive leadership team with the appointment of industry veteran Virginia Satrom as Vice President of Marketing. Satrom brings more than a decade of marketing experience in the cybersecurity industry working extensively with top security partners worldwide.
China has accused the US of abusing its national security laws to target Chinese companies after Washington threatened to ban video-sharing app TikTok from its shores last week. On Saturday, the Trump administration vowed to "Close down" the Chinese-owned video-sharing app unless it is bought by a "Very American" company within 45 days.
The US House of Representatives has passed a spending bill which includes a $500m election security provision. Specifically, the half-billion goes to the US Election Assistance Commission and will give states money that will be used to replace electronic voting machines with ones that provide a paper trail of results.
Motorola Solutions announced that Jason Winkler has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1, 2020. Winkler succeeds Gino Bonanotte, who has decided to retire from Motorola Solutions on December 31, 2020.
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.
SentinelOne, the autonomous cybersecurity platform company, announced the appointment of Chuck Fontana as Senior Vice President of Corporate and Business Development. Mr. Fontana will lead SentinelOne's business and corporate development functions, supporting the company on its journey as the world's next great cybersecurity platform.
ImageWare Systems announces the appointment of Sudheer Koganti as Vice President of Engineering effective June 22, 2020. Koganti has led, built and managed a wide variety of successful products across embedded, mobile and cloud.
Nutanix announced that it has appointed Christian Goffi as Vice President, Americas Channel Sales, where he will lead Nutanix's Americas Channel team. "I'm thrilled to be joining Nutanix, a company I've admired for its innovative hyperconverged infrastructure, cloud solutions, and customer-first approach," said Christian Goffi, Vice President of Americas Channel Sales at Nutanix.
Productiv announced the appointment of Apurva Davé as Vice President of Marketing. Productiv has expanded its engineering, product and go-to-market teams, opened a research and development office in Bengaluru, India and been named a Cool Vendor in Gartner's Cool Vendors in the Digital Workplace report.
TrapX Security has announced that industry veteran Steve Preston will be joining the executive team as vice president of marketing. "Steve brings a high level of product and go-to-market expertise to TrapX, and his track record of creating and overseeing successful B2B brand growth will help us to stand out in a crowded security market," said Ori Bach, chief executive officer at TrapX Security.