CloudPassage Hires Industry Veteran Rand Wacker as Vice President of Product Management

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CloudPassage™ Inc., the leading cloud server security company, today announced that information security expert and industry veteran Rand Wacker has joined the company as vice president of product management. Wacker joins CloudPassage from Cisco Systems security business unit where he led work on products in multiple security markets, including firewall, intrusion prevention, content security, and compliance. He came to Cisco through the acquisition of IronPort Systems.

"Rand was responsible for product strategy and a key driver of IronPort's success. IronPort is one of the great security startup stories – they executed brilliantly," said Carson Sweet, co-founder and CEO of Cloud Passage. "We're excited that Rand chose to bring his experience building product portfolios to CloudPassage. He will help us dominate the IaaS security market."

Wacker will be responsible for product strategy and will play a core leadership role in product and go-to-market execution. His goal at CloudPassage is to enable the industry's adoption of disruptive cloud computing services by solving security and compliance needs.

"Cloud adoption is accelerating through all segments of the IT industry, and security is a top concern of IT departments planning their strategy. CloudPassage is uniquely positioned to solve customers' security and compliance concerns in this transition," said Wacker. "I'm thrilled to join a team with a deep understanding of the security needs of customers, and willing to re-think the approach to solve the problems of this new cloud-based environment."

Prior to Cisco and IronPort, Wacker has held engineering, marketing, and strategy roles at Sendmail, Amazon, and Oracle. Wacker holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, also at Berkeley.

About CloudPassage

CloudPassage is the leading cloud server security provider, and creator of Halo™, the industry's first and only security and compliance platform, purpose-built for elastic cloud environments. Halo supports cloud server bursting, cloning, and migration and operates across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. Industry leading companies like Foursquare, StrongMail and Exois trust Halo to seamlessly manage their server security configuration, host-based firewalls, intrusion detection, and server account auditing from one system.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital. Gartner, Inc. named CloudPassage one of four "Cool Vendors in Cloud Security Services, 2011." For more information, please visit: http://www.CloudPassage.com.

CloudPassage, CloudPassage Halo SVM Server Vulnerability Management and CloudPassage Halo Firewall are registered trademarks of CloudPassage. All other trademarks are registered to their respective companies. Copyright © CloudPassage 2011.

SOURCE CloudPassage

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