Cybersecurity Veteran Gord Boyce Joins RedSeal to Lead Commercial Business Unit
Former ForeScout CEO will Oversee Strategic Growth and Address Increasing Demand from Global 2000 Companies for Digital Resilience
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – August 23, 2017 – Today RedSeal, the leader in network modeling and cyber risk scoring, announced that Gord Boyce joined the company as Senior Vice President of a newly formed business unit to address demand in the commercial market. Boyce will lead a team of global sales, customer engineering and professional service resources, focused on driving adoption of RedSeal’s award-winning digital resilience platform.
“Gord rounds out our leadership bench with deep cyber industry expertise, and a tremendous track-record in sales,” said Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO of RedSeal. “He understands the unique challenges of the high-growth security landscape, and we are thrilled to have his experience delivering enterprise-class platform value to the Global 2000.”
Boyce, a high-tech veteran, brings nearly 25 years of cyber industry experience to RedSeal. As CEO of ForeScout Technologies, he led the company to a global leadership position in the network access control (NAC) market. Prior to ForeScout, Boyce held several senior management positions within Nokia’s Internet Communications and Enterprise Solutions business groups.
“I’ve followed RedSeal’s growth for some time, and am excited to join this visionary company, and help enterprises around the world elevate their cyber security strategy”, said Gord Boyce. “Prevention and detection solutions are necessary, but clearly not sufficient. The RedSeal platform delivers what security and network teams – and their executives– needed yesterday: resilience and continuity.”
RedSeal – one of Red Herring’s Top 100 Global Companies for two consecutive years – posted more than 40 percent year-over-year growth in 2016,and CSO Online recently recognized its digital resilience platform as the top security tool in network security for 2017.
Boyce will be based in the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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About RedSeal
RedSeal’s network modeling and risk scoring platform is the foundation for enabling enterprise networks to be resilient to cyber events and network interruptions in an increasingly digital world. RedSeal helps customers understand their network from the inside, out – and provides rich context, situational awareness and a Digital Resilience Score to help enterprises measure and ultimately build greater resilience into their infrastructure. Government agencies and Global 2000 companies around the world rely on RedSeal to help them improve their overall security posture, accelerate incident response and increase the productivity of their security and network teams. Founded in 2004, RedSeal is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and serves customers globally through a direct and channel partner network.
