Accomplished IT Sales Executive to Drive Adoption of Company’s
Network Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Solutions

Boston, Massachusetts – Jan 22, 2014 – Pwnie Express, the only technology to assess wired and wireless network security in remote locations on demand, today announced Stephen Pace would join as executive vice president of sales and services. Pace will be responsible for driving Pwnie Express’s sales strategy and global expansion.

Pace is a highly accomplished, results-oriented sales executive with more than 30 years experience in helping early- to mid-stage companies rapidly capture market share.  Steve was responsible for sales, channels, service and support at Core Security, a leading provider of predictive security intelligence solutions.  Earlier, Pace also was a founding member and chief operating officer of Chosen Security, acquired by PGP. He also has served as VP of sales and services at GeoTrust, which was acquired by VeriSign, senior vice president of sales and marketing at NaviSite, which was sold to Time Warner, and SVP of worldwide sales and marketing at Seagate Software, which was acquired by Veritas.

“Pwnie Express has significantly advanced the state-of-the-art for enterprise security intelligence to address today’s threats in both wired and wireless networks,” said Pace. “With the real-time capability using their innovative sensors that make it incredibly easy to see all the things in order to assess risk in remote and distributed networks, customers can rapidly and easily evaluate the hard-to reach areas of their organization, which are providing today’s high-risk attack paths.  I look forward to contributing to the company’s sales and market growth at this pivotal time.”

“Steve has a proven track record of successfully building customer focused sales and services teams and growing revenue for emerging leaders in information security,” said Paul Paget, Pwnie Express CEO. “He is a demonstrated strategic sales leader having directed enterprise security startup companies and will be a great asset to the Pwnie Express team.”

 

by Jon DiPietro

Explosive Demand for Incident Response Management Triples Customer Base;  Attracts Legendary Security Technologist Bruce Schneier to Become CTO

 

Cambridge, Mass. – January 21, 2014– Co3 Systems, a pioneer in Incident Response Management Systems (IRMS), today announced that 2013 was the company’s breakout year. Bookings grew more than 400 percent over 2012, topping 50 percent quarter-to-quarter compound growth, and tripling the customer base.  As the first mover in providing technology for companies of all sizes to prepare for, respond to, and manage security incidents and privacy breaches, the company not only grabbed the attention of customers, but of the market at large. So much so that security luminary Bruce Schneier, who had been a member of the Advisory Board, chose to join full time as the company’s first Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

In a year that began with the accusation of systemic theft of American corporate information by Chinese hackers in theMandiant APT 1 Report, ended with Target and a retail sector under siege, and saw a multitude of breaches in between—the need for preparedness, efficiency and effectiveness in incident response has skyrocketed.  With that as a backdrop, Co3 is poised for massive success, borne out by:

·         Growing the average deal size by 500 percent, including top five Fortune 500 customers in financial services, software, engineering/construction and IT Services. Beyond the Fortune 500, the company is proud to serve small and large organization across multiple sectors, including technology, professional services, healthcare and retail.

·         Significant product effectiveness—One customer, a leading financial aid provider, USA Funds, now manage incidentsin one tenth of the time that it took previously.

·         Expanding the product to provide complete coverage of security incident scenarios and comprehensive support of breach regulations worldwide.  Co3’s privacy breach disclosure coverage now includes the U.S., Canada, theEuropean Union and Asia-Pac regions.

·         The company also enhanced the platform’s capabilities by adding multiple automated threat and malware intelligence feeds (including iSIGHT Partners) and customizable dashboards.

·         Establishing an Advisory Board of security and privacy elites to help shape the Co3 platform.

·         Receiving industry accolades from influential test labs with endorsements such as, “Co3 Systems has done better than a home-run…it has knocked one out of the park” from SC Magazine and an Editor’s Choice award from PC Magazine.

“The last twelve months couldn’t have driven home any more forcefully that no matter who you are, you have to handle security incidents and breaches and most businesses are struggling,” said John Bruce, CEO at Co3 Systems.  “The billion dollar acquisition of Mandiant this month signals a rapid shift in the market; savvy companies are beginning to place as much emphasis on response as they’ve traditionally put on prevention and detection technologies. We are thrilled to be in a position to help organizations successfully navigate this critical transition in their security capability.”

Co3 is making the market for Incident Response Management Systems (IRMS), a critical component of the incident response market that ABI Research expects to grow to $15B by 2017.  Co3 enables organizations of all sizes to efficiently prepare for and rapidly manage the incident response process for security incidents or privacy breaches via a software application composed of two modules. The Co3 Privacy Module provides an easy, automated way to ensure consistency and accountability—across teams, organizations and external stakeholders—in managing incidents that concern personally identifiable information (PII) and the Co3 Security Module allows automated, single-pane incident management for general security incidents including malware infections, DDoS attacks, device or Intellectual Property theft and system intrusions.

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About Co3 Systems:

Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, Co3 Systems is leading the market for Incident Response Management Systems. The company’s offering enables organizations of all sizes to efficiently prepare for and rapidly manage the response process for Security incidents or Privacy breaches. With funding from Fairhaven Capital, the company’s executive team and advisors are comprised of security experts from world-leading security, software and service organizations. On the web atwww.co3sys.com.

 

CrowdTwists’ CEO, Irving Fain, had his first post published in the Wall Street Journal Accelerator Section today!

 

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“Rewards and discounts are good ways to stay top of mind with existing customers and entice new ones to try out your product, but when it comes to establishing and maintaining long-term customer relationships, you need to do more than bait people.”

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Famed security expert Bruce Schneier has left BT and is now the CTO of  Co3 Systems.

 

Read about it here:

 

http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/bruce-schneier-departs-bt-for-startup-co/240165137

 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – January 7, 2014 – Celtra Inc., the industry leader for rich media mobile ad serving and analytics, today announced it has been selected as the preferred rich media mobile advertising partner for GroupM Ireland, the leading global media investment management operation. This strategic partnership empowers GroupM agencies across Ireland to quickly and efficiently deploy rich media mobile campaigns for their brands through the use of AdCreator 3, Celtra’s market-leading rich media ad production, delivery and analytics platform.

GroupM agencies in Ireland including MediaCom, Mindshare, Maxus and MEC can now bolster their mobile proposition, creating native, compelling rich media advertisements that run flawlessly across iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. AdCreator 3’s self- service model provides in-depth reporting and full campaign creative control, allowing GroupM Ireland agencies to build advanced mobile rich media advertisements that deliver enhanced engagement rates and superior insight into how consumers are engaging with brand campaigns.

“We recognize the value in Celtra’s centralized platform for creative and campaign execution and management as we look to build out our agencies’ mobile rich media capabilities,” said Jill Robinson, Head of TV and Digital Investment, GroupM Ireland. “AdCreator 3 not only offers consumers more immersive, personalized brand experiences, but it also allows us to more effectively monitor our campaigns in real-time through the platform’s comprehensive tracking and analytics capabilities.”

Celtra’s AdCreator 3 enables GroupM Ireland to take full advantage of agency creative production offerings and leverage its position as a leader within the mobile advertising space while maintaining access to all aspects of brand campaigns. Through this partnership, Celtra will support GroupM to ensure seamless campaign execution across all its agencies in Ireland.

“Celtra’s designation by GroupM as its preferred rich media mobile advertising provider in Ireland is a testament to Celtra’s reputation as innovative and knowledgeable within the mobile rich media advertising market amongst publishers, networks and creative agencies,” said Jonathan Milne, Celtra General Manager, EMEA. “Our AdCreator 3 platform offers GroupM Ireland agencies a competitive advantage and the opportunity to expand their client offering by providing mobile-specific creative that boosts overall awareness and engagement.”

Celtra’s dedicated certification team ensures limitations on rich media availability are removed amongst GroupM Ireland buying points. AdCreator 3 will provide MediaCom, Mindshare, Maxus and MEC the ability to adjust strategy, targeting and messaging according to immediate consumer feedback, driving higher brand campaign ROI and
allowing agencies to improve upon past campaigns by viewing what advertisements have been most effective through its powerful and easy-to-use dashboard.

 

Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab article -If a tweet worked once, send it again — and other lessons from The New York Times’ social media desk- mentions SocialFlow

 

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Turning the Tables on Attackers with Enterprise-Wide Threat Detection, Context and Enhanced Visibility; Driverless, Non-Signature Approach Leverages Big Data for Limitless Endpoint Intelligence

CounterTack, a pioneer in delivering real-time endpoint threat detection, context and visibility around targeted attacks, today announced the next-generation of its revolutionary endpoint threat detection and response platform, Sentinel, to help global organizations  regain control of their security against targeted, persistent threats.

“Defending against advanced persistent threats and protecting our organization and customers from threats like Dark Seoul are our top priorities,” said Jae Woo Lee, General Manager of the Managed Security Service Team, SK Infosec. “We needed a platform that provides deep behavioral analysis of persistent attacks with an unparalleled level of intelligence, to make better security decisions. Sentinel gives us the visibility and attack context that we need to prioritize our response to known and unknown threats.”

The endpoint has emerged as the epicenter of attacker access and activity – the new battleground between attackers and enterprise organizations. To combat large-scale, persistent threats, organizations need unobscured visibility into attacker behavior across the enterprise with automated intelligence to dramatically improve response time and response tactics. Sentinel combines its real-time stealthware with Big Data analytics to provide organizations with that visibility, context and intelligence necessary to make better, more informed security decisions across the entire enterprise.

“Persistent, motivated attackers have had the advantage over enterprise and government organizations for far too long – it’s time to put these organizations back in control of their security,” said Neal Creighton, CEO, CounterTack. “We leverage attackers’ own technology and methods, delivering enterprise-grade stealthware to customers, that provides automated attack intelligence and enterprise-wide correlation. With Sentinel, CounterTack is turning the tide on attackers by giving teams a platform that’s simple to deploy and operationalize across the entire enterprise.”

Endpoint threat detection and response has emerged as a critical component in defending against sophisticated adversaries,  driving market and technology consolidation evidenced by FireEye’s recent acquisition of Mandiant. CounterTack remains the independent technology leader, with substantial advantages over competitive platforms including:

• No post-exploit search for attack signatures like other endpoint technology. Sentinel’s driverless behavioral analysis capability analyzes application executtion in real-time to identify attacks in-progress.
• Better response to potential attacks because Sentinel identifies what actually happened during an attack while providing forensic-level details of attacks in progress. Security personnel use Sentinel’s attack intelligence to choose the best response based on the type of attack.
• Complete attack analysis. Sentinel’s robust search interface helps teams access any type of endpoint data from artifacts like files and registry keys, to real-time network statistics of which attacks accessed which hosts. This searchable data enables security engineers to understand how one identified attack affects the entire enterprise without the need for individual endpoint querying.
• Endpoint monitoring to scale the entire enterprise. Sentinel is built on Big Data technology which helps it scale to handle hundreds of thousands of endpoints. Simultaneously, Sentinel provides real-time forensic data through an enterprise architecture, giving teams the high availability, load balancing, and search capabilities they demand.
• Sentinel does not install agents to collect data on endpoints. Instead, it uses a lightweight, driverless kernel technology to gather continuous, real-time data from endpoints without a performance impact.

“…In fact, kernel-based tools offer better protection from tampering because the userland agent tool cannot be protected from the attacker with kernel-level access. It is more difficult for the attacker to hide from ETDR data collection than, say, native OS logging,” Gartner, Endpoint Threat Detection and Response Tools and Practices, Anton Chuvakin, September 25, 2013.