Cybersecurity Sales Insider
I hope you won this week!
Here’s your weekly update on comings and goings, jobs, networking opportunities and actionable insights:
These are the most recent appointments and promotions of your cybersecurity sales peers. Say “CONGRATS!”🥂 to:
→ Shiva Pillay was appointed as Senior Vice President of Americas for Veeam.
→ Yigal Elstein was appointed as Chief Revenue Officer at Checkmarx.
→ Scott Jones was appointed as Vice President, Sales (North America) at Sectigo.
→ Shawn O'Brien was appointed as Chief Revenue Officer at Phosphorus Cybersecurity.
→ Craig Matusz was appointed as Vice President of Sales at Logically.
→ Matthew McSweeney was appointed as Vice President of Sales, Americas at Cato Networks.
→ Ron Longo was appointed as Chief Revenue Officer at Fortanix.
Appointed? Promoted? Let us know!
Do you have a story to tell? How you succeeded in your career, what makes your company awesome, how cybersecurity sales world is changing, what is working and what is not?
We’d love to host you! Please respond to this email with "interview" in the subject and we will set it up.
Meanwhile, check out a recent interview with Brian De Lemos, CRO, BishopFox:
Our dance card is filling up fast. So, if interested in building up your personal brand and sharing your story, respond today.
When are you available?
These senior cybersecurity sales roles you may want to forward to your friends and colleagues:
→ Palo Alto Networks is looking for a VP Federal Sales in Arlington, VA.
→ Nutanix is looking for a VP of Sales, Northeast in New York, NY (remote).
→ Fortinet is looking for VP of Enterprise Sales, Northeast in New York.
→ Dynatrace is looking for a Regional Sales Director, Federal (Remote, Virginia/D.C.)
→ Okta is looking for an SVP, GTM Strategy & Operations (United States).
Looking for a job? Hiring? Let us know.
Given the level of VC funding flowing into cybersecurity, the rumors of market’s demise appear to be premature:
→ Mithril Security raised €1.2 million to protect data privacy in AI.
→ Hook Security closed a $5 million seed round.
→ Entro secured $6m in seed funding.
→ ThreatFabric, an Amsterdam based cybersecurity firm specializing in fraud detection and prevention solutions, raised $12.5 million.
→ SpiderOak raised $16.4 million Series C.
→ Huntress raised $60M series C round.
→ IBM acquired Polar Security for $60M to automate cloud data management.
→ Eagle Eye Networks and Brivo raised $192M in a joint round to boost cloud security business.
Raised funding? Got acquired? Let us know!
These are virtual and live events for the cyber sales community you may find interesting:
Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit is taking place on Jun 5, 2023 in National Harbor, MD
BlackHat is taking place on August 5, 2023 in Las Vegas, NV
InfoSec World is taking place on September 25-27, 2023 in Lake Buena Vista, FL
Attending or hosting an event? Let us know!
Bad guys have been busy recently 📈 :
Department of Transportation breach may have affected 237K current and former employees.
NetGen Healthcare leaked information on 1 million patients.
Discord suffers data breach through a third party.
Fortra breach targets 130 companies, mostly in healthcare.
Hackers publish data from Lowell breach.
PharMerica notifies 5.8 million people of the data breach.
Utah Health Systems suffers data breach, 100K+ impacted.
But a handful of bad guys were nabbed 👮♀️:
Russian hacker Wazawaka indicted for ransomware.
Hacker who leaked "House of the Dragon" episode arrested.
Hacker marketplace sprung up again after the takedown.
Hackers behind Spain's asylum black market arrested.
Stay safe.
Amy Minnie
Cybersecurity Sales Insider