Here are some of the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes that happened in February. If you’d like SDxCentral to report on your company’s movers and shakers, or if you’ve got a tip about layoffs and restructuring, please send the information to Emma Chervek ([email protected]) for inclusion in the monthly headcount column.

Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables has a theory on cloud adoption and how it improves customers’ security posture without requiring any extra effort on their part. He calls it “the concept of the digital immune system,” and says it played a big role in his decision to join Google Cloud as its first chief information security officer a little over a year ago.

“For the first time in history, we’ve got this feedback loop happening,” Venables said.

Google ships hundreds of security updates to customers every month, across all of its products and services, he explained. These may be improvements in default settings, for example enabling encryption by default. Or they may include security updates to patch a vulnerability that one of its bug bounty programs found or that its penetration testing team discovered.

“There’s this huge amount of data that’s coming in to us about what new security features we should be building in,” Venables said. At the same time Google Cloud customers with large security teams provide “a constant source of requests about what new features they want to see,” he added.

Ericsson has almost everything going for it, if only it could get out its own way and shake its corrupt heritage.

The Swedish company, which ranks as the No. 1 or No. 2 radio access network (RAN) vendor globally, depending on who’s doing the counting, admits it found evidence of “corruption-related misconduct” dating back to 2011 and as recently as 2018 in Iraq.

Ericsson reports multiple employees violated multiple business ethics, financial regulations, and compliance rules it implemented as part of a $1.06 billion settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ).

This latest admission of criminal activity also likely puts Ericsson out of compliance with the agreement it made with the DoJ that formally placed it under a three-year period of formal monitoring with an independent compliance monitor.

Arm appointed Rene Haas as CEO.

Versa Networks named Martin Mackay as chief revenue officer.

NinjaOne appointed Mike Arrowsmith as chief trust officer.

Anjuna Security appointed Manoj Apte to the board of directors, Kim del Fierro as CMO, and Greg Dennison as VP of sales.

Codasip appointed Dave Higham as VP of functional safety.

Extreme Networks appointed Scott Peterson as SVP of global channel sales and Mark Dellavalle as SVP of global systems engineering.

Ermetic appointed Eduard Meelhuysen as VP of sales for EMEA.

BreachQuest announced the appointment of Sandy Dunn as CIO and CISO.

RangeForce appointed Aaron Ansari as chief revenue officer.

Noetic Cyber appointed Mike Rogers as chief revenue officer, Karen Higgins as CFO, and Charlie Howe as VP of EMEA.

SonarSource appointed Andrea Malagodi as CTO and Gordon Pothier as CFO.

dbt Labs hired Margaret Francis as chief product officer.

Cerberus Cyber Sentinel Corporation appointed Rory Sanchez as president.

EdgeQ appointed Ajit Pai to its board of advisors.

Automax appointed Corey Bodzin as SVP of product.

Aryaka appointed Dennis Monner as chief commercial officer, Renuka Nadkarni as chief product officer, and DeAndra Jean-Louis as chief customer officer.

CData Software appointed Manish Patel as chief product officer and Steven Close as CISO.

VMware appointed Laura Heisman as chief marketing officer and Sylvain Cazard as GM of Asia Pacific and Japan.

Trellix appointed Michael Alicea as chief human resource officer, Tara Flanagan as general counsel, and Adam Philpott as chief revenue officer.

NinjaOne hired Mike Arrowsmith as chief trust officer.

Rubrik appointed Ghazal Asif as VP of global partners and alliances.

Delinea appointed Spencer Young as VP of EMEA and Wahab Yusoff as VP of APAC.

Deep Instinct announced the appointment of Yariv Fishman as VP of product and Ofir Arkin as VP of research and development.

UncommonX promoted Patrick Hayes to chief strategy officer.

Socure appointed Brendan Peter as VP of government relations.

Hyperledger Foundation appointed Hart Montgomery as CTO.

Pepperdata announced the appointment of Maneesh Dhir as CEO.

Gluware appointed Jaime Wagner as VP of sales, Colin Henry as VP of channel sales, and Julie Keith as senior director of customer support.

Gremlin announced Josh Leslie joined the company as CEO.

Riverbed | Aternity appointed Alex Thurber as SVP of global partners and alliances and Craig McCullough as SVP of public sector.

Cape Privacy hired Alan Wong as head of finance and operations.

Blue Lava appointed Emily Shipman as VP of products.

BlackFog announced the appointment of David Schnurstein as director of threat intelligence.

SecureAuth appointed Paul Trulove as CEO and Mandeep Khera as chief marketing officer.

Checkmarx appointed Mark Osmond as VP of worldwide channels and alliances.

Otter.ai announced the appointment of Greg Holmes to its board of advisors.

Axis Security named Joe Mattioli as chief revenue officer.

Apica Systems appointed Mathias Thomsen as CEO.

DartPoints appointed Jeff Greenberg as VP and chief marketing officer.

HYPR named Michele Docharty to its board of directors.

Redbot Security promoted Andrew Bindner to chief security officer.

ExtraHop named Patrick Dennis as CEO.

Deep Instinct appointed Mike Saletta as VP of Americas channels, Joe Santamorena as VP of global MSSP, and Phanneth Wood as director of global distribution.

TrueFort appointed Matt Hathaway as chief marketing officer.

Bitrise appointed Filip Szymanski as chief product officer.

PKWARE announced the appointment of Marc Punzirudu as field CTO.

Code42 appointed Maria Izurieta as CFO.

Teleport appointed Hector Hernandez as chief revenue officer, Phil Simpson as VP of alliances, and Xin Ding as VP of product.

Sauce Labs welcomed Martha Jensen as chief people officer.

Intel named Christoph Schell as EVP and chief commercial officer.

Cin7 appointed Trevor Leybourne as CTO.

Fortress Information Security named Betsy Soehren-Jones as COO.

NS1 appointed Dawn Glamm as SVP of engineering and operations, Reginald Best as VP of product management and marketing, Bill Lapcevic as SVP of business development, and Mark Coleman as GM of NetBox.

GrammaTech appointed Tom van Gorder as chief revenue officer.

Netskope appointed Marilyn Miller as chief people officer.

Transposit announced the appointment of Tim Lang as VP of sales.

Pliops appointed Sudhanshu Jain as VP of product management and strategic alliances.

Rigetti Computing appointed Michael Harburn as CTO.

ReleaseHub appointed Kelsey DeGeorge as chief revenue officer.

Kong appointed Chirag Shah as CFO.

Equinix appointed Nicole Collins as chief transformation officer.

Verizon Business appointed Maggie Hallbach as SVP for Verizon Public Sector.