ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Damballa, the experts in network security monitoring for advanced threats, today announced the appointment of Dale Gonzalez to the company’s executive management team as Chief Product Officer. Gonzalez is responsible for setting, driving and continuing to innovate upon the product and technical vision for the company and aligning around emerging market opportunities.
“We are thrilled to bring someone with Dale’s extensive security domain experience and functional expertise into this critical role,” said David Scholtz, CEO of Damballa. “He will accelerate our mission to help enterprises eliminate loss and reduce the escalating business risk they face from advanced cyber threats. Damballa will continue to invest heavily in its product capabilities and we are confident that under Dale’s leadership, we will bring new innovations to market faster than ever.”
Over the course of his 25-year career in the technology industry, Dale has founded several startups and, most recently, was the CTO of a global, Atlanta-based public company, Concurrent Computer Corporation. A veteran of the security industry, Dale spent seven years with Dell SecureWorks, where he was VP of Engineering, Product Strategist, and Director of Product Strategy. In these roles, Dale led the product innovation process, participated in M&A strategy and the drove the creation and launch of new products.
“I’ve followed Damballa for several years and have always believed the company had infinite potential in the advanced threat market because of their unmatched visibility into global Internet activity and their time-tested scientific approach to developing predictive security analytics,” said Gonzalez. “I intend to leverage these assets to their fullest to bring to market solutions that give enterprises an advantage over cyber criminals who are constantly innovating and adapting their attacks methods.”
About Damballa
Damballa is a network security monitoring system that provides evidence of threat-related activity needed to prevent data theft. We discover criminal operators that have already bypassed perimeter defenses and pose a business risk. Our automated system works in real-time and over time regardless of the attack vector, device type or OS. Attackers may take time to reveal themselves and when they do, Damballa will expose them and initiate mitigation. 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.