ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Damballa, a leader in advanced threat detection and containment, today announced the promotion of Stephen Newman to chief technology officer. Newman succeeds former CTO Brian Foster, who joins Damballa’s Strategic Advisory Board. Newman was previously vice president of products for the company. With the appointment, the company also announced that Joseph Ward has been promoted to vice president of products.
Damballa’s CEO David Scholtz said, “Damballa has never been better positioned to bring our innovations to market. The continuity of leadership from Brian to Stephen allows us to seamlessly continue to drive new capabilities into our solutions. After seven years at Damballa, Stephen’s deep understanding of the company’s technologies, strong vision for the future and experience working with global enterprises to understand their business requirements are invaluable.”
“This is an exciting time at Damballa. As more companies are making cybersecurity a top priority from the boardroom down to every single employee, we are seeing record-breaking demand for our automated threat detection and containment solutions worldwide,” said Newman. “We continually advance our solution with the input of our customers and our scientific approach to understanding and staying ahead of emerging threats.”
Since joining Damballa in 2009, Newman’s team has successfully built upon the company’s 16 patented/patent-pending innovations to create advanced threat detection solutions that harness big data science. Throughout his career, he has designed products and product strategies for leading, innovative companies including Secure Computing, McAfee, Boston Acoustics, MegaPath, and EarthLink. Newman holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Joseph Ward has been with Damballa since 2010, most recently as Senior Director of Product and R&D strategy. In this role, he has led Damballa’s research strategy, creating a pipeline approach for projects from conception to productization, streamlining the detection technology process, and overseeing the deployment of over six new detection technologies into the product. He is the primary inventor on four patent pending technologies presently in Failsafe. Prior to joining the company, he held product management and sales engineering roles at McAfee, Secure Computing and CipherTrust.
About Damballa
As a leader in automated breach defense, Damballa delivers advanced threat protection and containment for active threats that bypass all security prevention layers. Born for breach defense, Damballa rapidly discovers infections with certainty, pinpointing the compromised devices that represent the highest risk to a business, and enabling prioritized response and refocusing of security experts to the areas of greatest risk to an enterprise. Our patented solutions leverage Big Data from one-third of the world’s Internet traffic, combined with machine learning, to automatically discover and terminate criminal activity, stop data theft, minimize business disruption, and reduce the time to response and remediation. Damballa protects any device or OS including PCs, Macs, Unix, iOS, Android, and embedded systems. Damballa protects more than 400 million endpoints globally at enterprises in every major market and for the world's largest ISP and telecommunications providers. For more information, visit www.damballa.com, or follow us on Twitter @DamballaInc.