Senior Executives Join Company to Help Manage Significant Corporate Growth
HERNDON, VA – February 19, 2008 – NetWitness Corporation, the leading provider of advanced detection and analysis solutions for improving the recognition and rapid mitigation of complex network threats, today announced two new additions to its management team. Dana Walsh joins as Vice President of Finance and is responsible for the financial, accounting and human resources operations for the company. Kurt Lee joins as Area Vice President of Sales for the Western Region and is responsible for managing the growing enterprise end-user demands of the Western U.S. and International regions.
Dana Walsh comes to NetWitness with over ten years of experience supporting early stage companies in the areas of senior finance, accounting, legal, and human resources. Prior to joining NetWitness, Ms. Walsh served as the Treasurer, Controller and Corporate Counsel to Care Fusion Incorporated where she successfully managed the merger and transition of Care Fusion with Cardinal Health (CAH). She earned a Juris Doctorate degree from George Mason University, and a BS in Business Administration, Cum Laude, from the University of New Hampshire.
Kurt Lee brings to NetWitness a wealth of sales and management experience. Mr. Lee has a thorough understanding of developing and managing sales to medium and large enterprise end-users, as well as OEM’s, strategic partners, and resellers. His impressive background has 18 years of security sales, sales management, and executive leadership experience for organizations ranging from “early phase” to Fortune 500. Mr. Lee has served in a variety of sales executive positions, from the Director of Sales at Raptor, Symantec, and Riptech to Vice President of Sales at OpenService, ArcSight, and Q1Labs. He earned a BS degree in Engineering from Brigham Young University.
“With their extensive experience and deep industry knowledge, Dana and Kurt are significant additions to the NetWitness management team,” said Nick Lantuh, President of NetWitness. “Their first-hand knowledge of working with new ventures in their respective roles combined with their industry expertise will add significant value to the continued growth of NetWitness.”
NetWitness is the provider of NextGen, the industry's first security monitoring software that records everything on the network, re-using it multiple times to solve some of the most challenging operational problems facing organizations today: zero-day attacks, insider threats, data leakage, designer malware activity, asset misuse, network anomalies, and compliance. NetWitness NextGen is an essential addition to security operations centers desiring true visibility into today’s complex and multidimensional threats. Unlike current solutions that are based solely upon log files, estimating techniques and statistical guesswork, NextGen is built upon a powerful distributed session analysis and investigative infrastructure that leverages the complete and detailed contextual information obtained through full packet capture.
About NetWitness NetWitness Corporation provides patented next generation network monitoring products that enable organizations to achieve Total Network Knowledge™. Users of NetWitness NextGen can concurrently solve a wide variety of network and security problems, including, insider threat management, data leakage protection, malware activity detection, network performance management, and compliance verification. This infrastructure provides definitive answers to tough security problems and threats through automated network understanding of application layer data and related content. Originally, developed for the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and risk determination. Customers include Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies and Fortune 1000 organizations. To set up a 30-day NetWitness evaluation in your environment, please email sales@netwitness.com. For additional information, please visit www.netwitness.com.