Slack Hacked

eSecurity Planet | Mar 30, 2015

Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist at RedSeal, said by email that the Slack breach clearly demonstrates that organizations need to use automation to improve security. “They must use a system to ensure that all of their security zones are correctly configured, that there are no ways around the security controls, and that all possible paths are monitored for unexpected activity — not just those that are used when everything is operating as expected,” he said.

Secrecy on the Set: Hollywood Embraces Digital Security

The New York Times | Mar 29, 2015

Some Hollywood studios are removing their movie editing software from the Internet so hackers cannot get to it, said Ray Rothrock, the chief executive of RedSeal, a security start-up. For years, oil companies have been doing something similar with their pipelines — a process known as “air-gapping”— so that if hackers breach their internal network, they can’t use that access to blow up a pipeline. Now, Mr. Rothrock said, Hollywood is doing the same to combat theft.

REDSEAL EXPANDS MANAGEMENT TEAM WITH STEVE TIMMERMAN AS VP OF CORPORATE MARKETING AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — March 24, 2015 — RedSeal (redseal.co), the cybersecurity certification company, today announced that it will further strengthen its management team by bringing aboard Steve Timmerman as VP of Corporate Marketing and Business Development. The new appointment highlights RedSeal’s aggressive expansion plans—the company has a rich portfolio of product and service offerings and is moving into new markets around the world.

“In the past few months we’ve expanded our senior management roster with industry leaders and innovators, and Steve fits perfectly into that team,” said Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO at RedSeal. “He has three decades of experience in technology companies, from early-stage startups to public companies. In every case he’s aggressively identified and pursued new opportunities and enhanced revenue streams. We look forward to having him bring those experiences and skill sets to our company.”

Mr. Timmerman was most recently senior VP of Marketing, Broadband Management at software company ASSIA, where he helped triple revenues and build a 90% market share in the U.S. Earlier he was VP of Marketing at unified communications systems vendor Shoretel, where he directed all marketing activities, helped quadruple revenue over 4 years, and served as a core member of the successful 2007 IPO team.

Prior to ShoreTel, Mr. Timmerman served as VP of Marketing for Proxim, where he was responsible for marketing indoor and outdoor wireless networking products and building the company into a market leader. Mr. Timmerman also held several management positions at Octel Communications (the voice mail company) up through the acquisition by Lucent Technologies. Early in his career he worked with McKinsey in San Francisco and Europe. Mr. Timmerman holds a B.S. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

“Cybersecurity has become a Board-level issue,” Mr. Timmerman noted. “Most companies are increasingly challenged with network complexity that far exceeds their ability to effectively understand and manage. RedSeal’s advanced analytics engine helps companies reduce cybersecurity risk and lower maintenance and incident response costs. I’m thrilled to join such an outstanding company as it tackles these critical issues.”

About RedSeal (redseal.co)
RedSeal provides a cybersecurity analytics platform to Global 2000 organizations that helps maximize digital resilience against cyber events. RedSeal’s advanced analytics engine creates functioning network modelstests networks to identify security risks, prioritizes needed actions, and provides critical information to quickly remediate issues. The result: measurable reduced cybersecurity risk and lower incident response and maintenance costs. With operations in North America, Europe, and Asia, RedSeal customers include leaders in finance, retail, technology, utilities, service providers, and government, all served by RedSeal’s channel partner network.

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REDSEAL NAMED TO JMP SECURITIES’ FAST 50 LIST OF HOTTEST PRIVATELY HELD SECURITY AND NETWORKING FIRMS

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — March 23, 2015 — RedSeal (redseal.co), the cybersecurity certification company, has been named to the JMP Securities Fast 50 list of hottest privately held security and networking companies. The list recognizes innovators that have the capability to dominate their respective markets.

“We’re honored to be recognized by JMP Securities for our powerful security analytics technology that is helping organizations certify their evolving networks are secure,” said RedSeal Chairman and CEO Ray Rothrock. “As networks themselves increasingly become targets, we believe that identifying and prioritizing network security issues based on potential risk is the most critical component of any defense strategy. Our customers are able to use their scarce resources to address their most critical issues first and accelerate and improve incident response.”

RedSeal’s platform enhances existing security investments by making sense of the overwhelming number of instructions that define how a particular network operates. It creates a functioning network model and tests it, prioritizing security issues and providing detailed remediation information. In addition to reducing cyber risk, RedSeal’s platform accelerates regulatory compliance initiatives—including PCI, NERC CIP and NIST—by automatically and continuously verifying alignment. The solution is designed to work with thousands of devices on complex networks, and more than 200 organizations worldwide currently rely on it to maintain the highest level of security.

JMP Securities is a full-service investment bank that provides equity research, institutional brokerage and investment banking services to growth companies and their investors.

About RedSeal (redseal.co)
RedSeal provides a cybersecurity analytics platform to Global 2000 organizations that helps maximize digital resilience against cyber events. RedSeal’s advanced analytics engine creates functioning network modelstests networks to identify security risks, prioritizes needed actions, and provides critical information to quickly remediate issues. The result: measurable reduced cybersecurity risk and lower incident response and maintenance costs. With operations in North America, Europe, and Asia, RedSeal customers include leaders in finance, retail, technology, utilities, service providers, and government, all served by RedSeal’s channel partner network.

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Target agrees to $10m breach compensation

ComputerWeekly.com | Mar 19, 2015

Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist at security firm RedSeal, said even a significant investment in proactive security analytics and process improvements would have given a good return on investment for Target.

Upgrade now: Older OpenSSL versions vulnerable to FREAK attack

InfoWorld | Mar 19, 2015

Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist at security analytics firm RedSeal, noted that keeping things under wraps ahead of time served as a way to pre-emptively prevent automated exploitation of these vulnerabilities.

Cheat Sheet: What Bankers Need to Know About the $1B Carbanak Heist

American Banker | Mar 17, 2015

“These thefts are a significant evolution in approach, since the attackers didn’t simply break in, take over accounts, and run with the money,” said Mike Lloyd, the chief technology officer at security analytics company RedSeal. “The time invested by criminals in studying the operations of target banks shows two things: first, that such attacks are lucrative enough for this time commitment to be worthwhile, and second, they would not have bothered if they did not have to.”

REDSEAL TO PRESENT AT THE MONTGOMERY SUMMIT IN SANTA MONICA, CA

Chairman and CEO Ray Rothrock invited to present RedSeal to top executives and senior-level investors on topic of cyber defense

From The Montgomery Summit, Santa Monica, CA…
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — March 9, 2015 — RedSeal (redseal.co), the network security certification company, today announced that Chairman and CEO Ray Rothrock will present at The Montgomery Summit 2015 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows in Santa Monica, CA on March 11, 2015. Mr. Rothrock will address how organizations can more effectively defend against cyberattacks.

“Given the crucial role of the information technology (IT) network in virtually all business operations, cybersecurity has become a vital issue,” Mr. Rothrock stressed. “Every day, we see how government and corporate customers throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, are challenged with network complexity. It goes beyond their ability to see what can happen, or even what is already happening. They need intelligence that lets them know how to prevent and react to the many threats, and to keep them in compliance with regulatory requirements. The best defensive strategy includes knowing every possible attack path to the most valuable network assets, so an enterprise can certify that its network is secure. That’s the approach RedSeal consistently advocates and the reason I’m presenting at this week’s Montgomery Summit.”

Building on the 10-year legacy of The Montgomery Conference, this year’s event, presented by Macquarie Capital, gathers leading executives from growth companies, entrepreneurs, global investment professionals and corporate development executives, to discover the most important innovations in business and technology. RedSeal provides a cybersecurity analytics platform that—unlike any other solution on the market—certifies that your network is secure.

About RedSeal (redseal.co)
RedSeal provides a cybersecurity analytics platform to Global 2000 organizations that helps maximize digital resilience against cyber events. RedSeal’s advanced analytics engine creates functioning network modelstests networks to identify security risks, prioritizes needed actions, and provides critical information to quickly remediate issues. The result: measurable reduced cybersecurity risk and lower incident response and maintenance costs. With operations in North America, Europe, and Asia, RedSeal customers include leaders in finance, retail, technology, utilities, service providers, and government, all served by RedSeal’s channel partner network.

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REDSEAL BROADENS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITIES WITH KEY MANAGEMENT APPOINTMENTS

Industry veteran Sundar Raj named new VP, Product Development; Hom Bahmanyar becomes VP, Engineering

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — March 5, 2015 — RedSeal (redseal.co), the network security certification company, today announced plans to greatly expand the company’s software development capabilities with two major executive appointments. Sundar Raj, who has been a force in the networking industry for more than two decades, has come aboard as the new VP, Product Development. Meanwhile, Hom Bahmanyar, who currently serves as Sr. Director of Engineering, is taking on broadened responsibilities as the new VP, Engineering.

“Our company is now squarely focused on growth and innovation. Over the past year we’ve greatly enhanced our core product and expanded its capabilities while increasing overall quality,” said Ray Rothrock, chairman and CEO at RedSeal. “Sundar and Hom each have a tremendous track record in leading the development of innovative enterprise software, and that’s why they’re both vital to our future. We’re very excited to have them on the team.”

Sundar Raj was most recently Sr. Director, Enterprise Mobility at the global conglomerate CA Technologies, and earlier spent time at Sagemcom USA, where he was Managing Director/VP, Broadband Software. Sundar was a founding member of Network TeleSystems, a pioneer in network protocol stack, applications, IP address management and VPN systems. During his tenure he built several networking products for enterprise and for large carriers deploying broadband (xDSL) technologies, He has several patents in networking area and his expertise includes IP protocols, security, VPN, mobile apps and SaaS implementation.

“At every position I’ve held, and in every kind of company, I’ve understood the critical importance of network security—it’s a strategic concern that should run throughout the enterprise from the boardroom on down, and too often that doesn’t happen,” Mr. Raj noted. “I’m excited to join a company where that is the essential mandate, and I look forward to helping RedSeal develop technologies and specific capabilities that can offer the level of security this threat environment demands.”

Similarly, Hom Bahmanyar has established a strong record as a results-driven engineering leader with proven skills in engineering execution, building highperformance engineering teams, and retaining a strong customer focus. He also brings a blue-chip background to his new position: Before joining RedSeal, he spent a decade at Cisco, most recently as director of engineering. Earlier in his career he was manager of software development at Savvion and senior software engineer at Novell Inc. In his new role, he will be primarily responsible for ensuring integration with products from other enterprise security and network vendors.

“No technology functions in a vacuum—this is a completely multi-platform, multi-vendor environment — and every aspect of security needs to recognize that reality,” Mr. Bahmanyar noted. “I’ve always been drawn to companies that thrive in challenging environments by building on both existing and emerging capabilities, and RedSeal has exactly that philosophy. I’m thrilled to be part of this team of innovators, and look forward to doing my part to harden network infrastructures around the world.”

About RedSeal (redseal.co)
RedSeal provides a cybersecurity analytics platform to Global 2000 organizations that helps maximize digital resilience against cyber events. RedSeal’s advanced analytics engine creates functioning network modelstests networks to identify security risks, prioritizes needed actions, and provides critical information to quickly remediate issues. The result: measurable reduced cybersecurity risk and lower incident response and maintenance costs. With operations in North America, Europe, and Asia, RedSeal customers include leaders in finance, retail, technology, utilities, service providers, and government, all served by RedSeal’s channel partner network.

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Natural Grocers Investigates Data Breach

SecurityWeek | Mar 3, 2015

“The movement of the attackers laterally within the internal network underscores a reality of modern networks: attacks are automated, patient, multi-step, and multi-phase,” said Steve Hultquist, chief evangelist at RedSeal. “Attackers probe for weaknesses, then use each weakness to dig further into the network, uncovering more weaknesses and further value each step.”