Virsec announced the appointment of Jennifer Leggio as Chief Marketing Officer, and Kevin Jones as Vice President of Public Sector and Business Development.
Leggio is an experienced leader and executive with more than 20 years of security marketing, communications, business strategy, and operations experience. She has held leadership roles at Fortinet, Sourcefire, Cisco, Digital Shadows, Flashpoint, and Claroty. A frequent speaker and writer on industry topics, Leggio was also recognized by SC Media in 2019 for her leadership in and advocacy in the industry for truth in marketing, coordinated disclosure, and her commitment to reducing harm.
Kevin Jones joins Virsec as its Vice President of Public Sector and Business Development. Jones is a visionary sales leader with proven expertise and a history of building results-oriented success for early to mid-stage growth companies. Over the course of his career, he has lead public sector and government strategies in increasingly senior positions with CrowdStrike, SkyHigh Networks, Symantec, and Clearwell.
As organizations worldwide face the growing sophistication of cyberattacks, the demand for effective solutions is skyrocketing. Advanced attack techniques that execute at runtime at the memory layer have become mainstream, and companies struggle to combat them. Virsec’s strong growth correlates with increasing board-level concerns about the financial, safety, and intellectual property impacts of evolving threat scenarios and the subsequent need to have deeper visibility into application workloads at runtime.
“2021 is a pivotal year for Virsec. The industry realizes the critical need to protect application workloads at runtime,” said Dave Furneuax, Chief Executive Officer of Virsec. “Its security platform has quickly gained a reputation for being the most resilient and effective solution to protect any application workload and environment. Organizations with some of the world’s largest and most complex operating environments are increasingly turning to Virsec, and it is because the company has the technology to deliver the utmost protection.”