CHANTILLY, Va., June 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- NetAbstraction, the
network obfuscation company, today announced that Mike Aiello, Chief Product Officer at HUMAN
Security and a former Google cybersecurity executive as well
as Joel Yonts, Chief Research
Officer for Malicious Streams and ex-Fortune 500 CISO have
joined the company's newly created Board of Advisors. The company
also recently closed a $9M Series A
round of financing led by AllegisCyber Capital and appointed
Gordon Lawson as its new CEO.
"Mike and Joel have decades of cybersecurity experience as both
practitioners and software industry executives," said Gordon Lawson, CEO of NetAbstraction. "Their
industry knowledge, relationships and business expertise will help
us refine and accelerate our go to market strategies. We are
pleased to welcome them as the first members of the NetAbstraction
advisory board."
Mike Aiello is currently Chief
Product Officer at HUMAN security, a bot mitigation firm. He
previously served as CEO of AppGate, a cybersecurity company which
spun out of Cyxtera, and was a Cybersecurity Executive at Google
where he was the Director of Product Management for Google Cloud
Platform Security. Prior to joining Google, Mike was CISO at
Goldman Sachs, where he helped secure Marcus, the company's digital
retail bank and established the company's Consumer Trust and
Technology Risk Committee.
"NetAbstraction is making advanced intelligence community
defensive technology available to organizations for the first
time," said Mike Aiello. "I look
forward to working with the management team to make obfuscation
technology a standard part of the enterprise security toolkit."
Joel Yonts has 20 years of
experience in enterprise security, digital forensics, artificial
intelligence, and robotic & IoT systems. He currently serves as
Chief Research Officer and Strategist for Malicious Streams,a
provider of cybersecurity strategy development, research and
intelligence services. Joel has served as CISO for multiple Fortune
500 companies, and also held senior cybersecurity roles with VF
Corporation and CapitalOne Financial.
"It's become way too easy for bad actors to target and attack an
organization's assets, which is why I'm so impressed with
NetAbstraction's ability to shield customers from being
compromised," said Joel Yonts. "The
company has the opportunity to create a whole new approach to cyber
defense, I'm pleased to be working with the management
team."
About NetAbstraction
NetAbstraction enables organizations to protect the privacy and
security of identities and systems by intelligently selecting and
obscuring global network pathways on the Internet. The
company's founders previously designed, created and implemented
clandestine telecommunication networks for the NSA and CIA.
NetAbstraction is used by Fortune 500 organizations globally to
ensure their cyber operations remain secure, anonymous, and
non-attributable. For more information visit
https://netabstraction.com/, and follow us on LinkedIn and
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