HERNDON, VA – August 17, 2009 – NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of next generation network monitoring and threat analysis solutions, today announced the appointment of Jaci Vilardo as Vice President of Federal Sales. This appointment strengthens NetWitness’ commitment to its rapidly growing number of federal customers, currently representing the company’s largest customer base.
Ms. Vilardo is an experienced professional with an outstanding sales and sales management track record in the public sector information security market. As VP of Federal Sales, she will lead an aggressive expansion of NetWitness’ federal activities that includes doubling the size of the company’s dedicated U.S. Government sales team and sales engineers by the end of 2009. In her new role, she will also ensure that NetWitness continues to align with the complex security needs of customer communities throughout the federal government.
“We are thrilled to appoint Jaci as our Vice President of Federal Sales. She has a strong track record putting the government’s mission first,” said Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness. “NetWitness has experienced explosive growth in our federal cyber security business. I can think of no better person to support our government partners and assure our joint success than Jaci.”
Ms. Vilardo joined NetWitness in February of 2007 as the Regional Sales Manager of the Federal Civilian Accounts. During her tenure at NetWitness, she has consistently worked with federal customers to apply NetWitness solutions in support of Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) requirements, unique advanced persistent threats faced by many agencies and addressing insider threat and data leakage concerns - driving many success stories across the federal government.
Ms. Vilardo has worked for 13 years supporting the IT security requirements of the public sector, holding key sales and sales management positions at Trident Data Systems, RipTech and Symantec. Prior to joining NetWitness, Ms. Vilardo successfully led a team of sales professionals at Symantec supporting public and commercial sector security service offerings.
About NetWitness NetWitness® Corporation provides patented and award winning, next generation security solutions that help government and private organizations discover, prioritize and remediate complex IT risks. NetWitness solutions concurrently solve a wide variety of information security problems including: advanced persistent threat management; sensitive data discovery and advanced data leakage detection; malware activity discovery; insider threat management; policy and controls verification and e-discovery. Originally developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises around the world with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and host-based risk discovery and prioritization. NetWitness customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, Top US and European Banks, Critical Infrastructure, and Global 1000 organizations. NetWitness has offices in the U.S. and the U.K. and partners throughout North and South America Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
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