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It
seems a day rarely passes
without another company being
victimized by a cyber attack
of one kind or another. Wholesale
data theft, denial of service
attacks and other offenses routinely
generates losses that can run into
the millions of dollars. That
has put the need for ironclad security
front and center, boosting the
fortunes of companies like San
Mateo, California based Farsight
Security that have
developed successful solutions to
the problem.
Farsight,
the
leading provider of the world’s
largest real-time DNS threat
intelligence, caught my eye
after seeing them enlist two
longtime domain industry leaders
over the last four weeks. The first
was Alexa
Raad, the former CEO of
the Public
Interest Registry
(administrator of the .ORG
extension) and Founder/CEO of Architelos.
Farsight named
Alexa their Chief
Operating Officer on July 25.
Then, just this morning, we got word
that veteran executive Ken
Hansen, has also joined
the Farsight team as Senior
Account Executive. Ken has had
key roles at China Springboard,
Neustar and other domain
industry companies.
Ms.
Raad is a tech entrepreneur with a
long track record of growing
revenues, scaling organizations, and
developing new markets in the United
States, Europe, Latin America and
Asia. Farsight CEO Dr.
Paul Vixie said, "Alexa
has two decades of executive and
technology experience in DNS and
Internet governance, and Farsight is
incredibly lucky to get her. We
wanted a transformational leader
for our sales, marketing, business
development, and customer engagement
functions, and, with Alexa Raad, we
could not have chosen a better
executive to lead our team."
Ms.
Raad, who holds an MBA as well as a
MS in Information Systems from George
Washington University,
noted, “I am very excited to
join such a distinguished team.
Farsight’s reputation for
providing the best threat
intelligence services, along with
the depth of its tech talent made it
an incredibly attractive
opportunity. I am looking forward to
what we can achieve together"
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Alexa
Raad
Farsight Security COO
Ken
Hansen
Senior Account Executive
Farsight Security
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Hansen
will use his vast business
development experience in the
Farsight sales organization, helping
them continue to grow revenues. Over
the past year, Farsight Security has
experienced significant demand for
its passive DNS solutions from
leading automotive, healthcare,
financial and government
organizations to gain new threat
intelligence in their fight against
global cyberattacks. Farsight
DNSDB, the company’s
flagship solution, is the world’s
largest historical Passive DNS
database with over 35 billion DNS
resolutions collected since 2010.
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