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Dave DeWalt Joins Cybereason as Vice Chairman of its Advisory Board

Jan 16, 2020

Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, today announced that Dave DeWalt has joined the company as Vice Chairman of its Advisory Board. In his role, he will be a strategic advisor and help accelerate Cybereason’s go-to-market strategy.

“Dave is a trailblazer in the cybersecurity industry and I am thrilled he is joining our Advisory Board as Vice Chairman at a time when Cybereason is growing rapidly and expanding its market share in the endpoint protection platform market. Dave’s experience in scaling security companies will be instrumental in taking Cybereason to the next level,” said Lior Div, CEO and Co-founder, Cybereason.

Dave is a veteran CEO, advisor, and investor who has led companies, from startups to the Fortune 500, on transformational journeys of success. He’s the former CEO of FireEye and of McAfee with more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity.

Today, he works on boards and advises multiple companies. DeWalt has spoken at the World Economic Forum on the issue of cybersecurity and given keynote speeches at several technology industry conferences.

“Cybereason is driving a massive transformation of how sophisticated cyberthreats are prevented in the EPP market, a multi billion dollar industry and I am thrilled to be joining the company’s Advisory Board as Vice Chairman. I have admired Cybereason from afar and believe that their unique approach to enterprise cyber solutions is the best in the market,” said DeWalt.

“Cybereason proved many times that it has the right people, technology, services, and experience to stop sophisticated attackers, be it criminals or nation state backed adversaries across multiple verticals, industries, and regions. Adding Dave as an advisor to the company enhances our expertise even more to further serve our customers,” added Lior Div.

About Cybereason
Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, gives the advantage back to the defender through a completely new approach to cybersecurity. Cybereason offers endpoint prevention, detection and response and active monitoring. The solution delivers multi-layered endpoint prevention by leveraging signature and signatureless techniques to prevent known and unknown threats in conjunction with behavioral and deception techniques to prevent ransomware and fileless attacks. Cybereason is privately held and is headquartered in Boston, with offices in London, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Asia-Pacific and continental Europe.

Learn more: https://www.cybereason.com/

Media Contact:
Bill Keeler
Senior Director, Global Public Relations
Cybereason
bill.keeler@cybereason.com
(929) 259-3261