Shayne Higdon, a former executive at software vendor BMC, has joined cybersecurity company Forcepoint as chief operating officer. He will oversee operations, engineering, product management, customer support and service organizations in his new role, Forcepoint said Wednesday....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 3, 2019 ” Sean Berg, senior vice president and general manager of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, believes government agencies should look into how their employees interact with data in order to advance security amid the increasing use of cloud and automation in the sector, ExecutiveBiz repo...
A new McAleese and Associates report says Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) saw its sales climb 7 percent to $6.7B in the first quarter of 2019 with an earnings per share of $2.77. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote in the report the Waltham, Mass.-based defense contractor reported $5....
Tim Solms, former vice president and general manager of U.S. public sector at Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), has been appointed GM of government segment at commercial data and analytics company Dun & Bradstreet. He will use his platform and service management experience in the public sector to facilitate the delivery of services to Dun & Bradstreet&...
Hitachi Vantara has announced the appointment of Jonathan Martin, a nearly two-decade marketing veteran in the technology industry, as chief marketing officer and Kristin Machacek Leary, a more than 25-year human resources leader, as chief HR officer. Leary and Martin will report to Scott Kelly, chief operating officer and chief transformation offic...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 2, 2019 ” Forcepoint will perform work under a potential $23.5M blanket purchase agreement to provide cybersecurity and cross-domain technologies and services to the FBI, ExecutiveBiz reported March 21. The company said March 20 the five-year BPA covers the delivery of behavior-based software and hardware as well as pro...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 12, 2019 ” Eric Trexler, vice president of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, has urged government agencies to ensure increased transparency with contractors as a key approach to establish trust in support of cybersecurity efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported March 3. Trexler wrote in a Nextgov gues...
Sean Foster, former chief revenue officer at Forcepoint, has been appointed to the same position at IronNet Cybersecurity. IronNet said Wednesday Foster aims to drive IronNet’s sales, marketing, business development, customer management efforts intended to help customers adopt network threat detection platforms. He will report t...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2019 ” Sean Berg, senior vice president and general manager of Forcepoint, has said the risk-adaptive approach employed by the Transportation Security Agency’s TSA PreCheck airport screening program exemplifies a way for federal agencies to address growing cyber threats, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 1. Berg w...
A new report by consulting firm McAleese & Associates says Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) saw its 2018 bookings jump 16 percent to $32.2B, which resulted in a book-to-bill ratio of 1.2. Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 winner, wrote in the report that Raytheon posted a total backl...
