A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts that the global market for advanced persistent threat protection systems will climb in value from $3.9 billion this year to $8.7 billion in 2020. The company said Oct. 14 the 17-percent compound annual growth rate over the five-year forecast period is due to increased demand for APT protection across several verticals amid a changing threat […] More

Research and Markets has projected the global specialized threat analysis and protection market to reach a compound annual growth rate of 35.93 percent from 2014 through 2019. The market research firm said Friday that its new report gives insights into the global specialized threat analysis and protection market, covering the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the […] More

Michael Sheridan, formerly chief financial officer at FireEye, has joined electronic signature technology provider DocuSign as CFO and will report to the company’s Chairman and CEO Keith Krach. DocuSign said Wednesday Sheridan will succeed former CFO Mike Dinsdale, who will assume the role of chief growth officer. “[Sheridan] has a remarkable track record of building high growth companies in some […] More

A cross-section of U.S. cybersecurity firms has set up a coalition to stop the enactment of a new Commerce Department rule governing the overseas sale of some information technology security products. The Coalition for Responsible Cybersecurity said Tuesday it aims to educate the U.S. government on how the department’s proposed cybersecurity technology export policy could […] More

Lockheed Martin has partnered with Radware to share cybersecurity best practices and collaborate on cyber-related pilot programs and experiments as part of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. The companies said Monday the alliance aims to facilitate the delivery of threat detectors and other cyber measures for customers through partnerships with technology providers. “The addition of Radware could not have come […] More

Research and Markets has forecast the global market for cybersecurity offerings within the banking, financial services and insurance sector to yield a 13.14 percent compound annual growth rate through 2019. The increasing use of cloud security and mobile platforms is projected to drive the BFSI cybersecurity market’s growth over the next four years, the research […] More

The National Security Agency has issued cyber incident response assistance accreditation to seven companies under the National Security Cyber Assistance Program, the Defense Daily Network reported Wednesday. Following an assessment of 21 focus areas, such as incident analysis and network traffic data collection, the NSA accredited Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton, CrowdStrike Services, FireEye, Mandiant, Maddrix and Verizon. NSA’s information assurance directorate also evaluated the […] More

Matt Warren serves as president of Agilex‘s Justice and Homeland Security Sector, where the long-time federal government marketplace leader manages that business and is responsible for its growth. A close-to-six-year Agilex veteran, Warren joined Agilex in 2008 after spending more than 10 years with Oracle, where he helped start the homeland security sales team and […] More

Mandiant has published a new report that analyzes the motives and targets of advanced threat attacks that occurred in 2013 and describes how malicious actors compromise enterprise data. Data from the FireEye subsidiary’s “Beyond the Breach” report indicates that 33 percent of organizations detected information security breaches on their own in 2013, compared with 37 percent a […] More

Mark Jones serves as senior sales director at CA Technologies, where he oversees the public sector healthcare vertical. He has been at the Islandia, NY.-based firm for close to 20 years where he has held a number of leadership roles and has worked with federal customers for 18 years. Jones spoke to ExecutiveBiz about a variety of […] More

Joan Schwartz and Doug Dangremond have joined QinetiQ subsidiary Cyveillance as vice presidents of human resources and sales, respectively. Schwartz formerly served as human resources director at Mandiant until that company was purchased by FireEye and Dangremond previously was a sales director at GTSI, Cyveillance said Monday. “There is an ever-growing need for organizations to employ global threat intelligence to […] More

Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem has joined the board of directors at network security firm ForeScout Technologies. The 25-year technology leadership veteran also serves on the boards of FireEye, Netskope, Atlassian, DocuSign and Biba, ForeScout said Monday. “We are honored to have Enrique join our board as we continue to expand capabilities to support our burgeoning global business,” said […] More