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Strong customer growth and recruits continue to increase security Notable security sales executive to scale rapid expansion

businesswire | December 17, 2020

Elevate Security, the first human risk management platform of its kind, today announced the appointment of security sales expert, Carolyn Hieken as Vice President of Sales to join its executive leadership team. Hieken will spearhead Elevate Security’s strategic growth objectives further expanding customer impact to improve the way security teams measure, communicate and reduce employee risk.

“Carolyn is a powerhouse and brings more than 25 years of security and technology sales experience to Elevate Security,” said Robert Fly, CEO, Elevate Security. “Her proven expertise in developing Fortune 1000 enterprise partnerships and growing teams is the exact talent we needed to expedite Elevate Security’s expansion.”

Elevate Security recruits Hieken on the heels of a successful series A1 investment round. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Elevate Security has doubled its customer base since the beginning of the year. As Elevate Security achieves continued customer growth, so does the company’s measurable impact on security resilience - Elevate Security reported influencing more than two million positive security decisions across the installed base resulting in prevented incidents and proven improvement to cyber resilience.

“Elevate Security is solving the security industry's greatest challenge which presents tremendous expansion opportunities. The Elevate Security team has established solid success to-date, and I am excited to further scale and accelerate our impact to help more organizations optimize their security technology spend, reduce employee risk and improve their overall cyber resilience,” said Hieken.

Hieken brings more than 25 years of technology and security expertise to the Elevate Security team with previous leadership roles at McAfee, Imperva and CA Software.

About Elevate Security

Elevate Security, the leader in Human Risk Management software, helps security leaders in enterprises measure, reduce and communicate human risk to keep their companies safe from cyber threats. One of the most challenging aspects of building a cybersecurity program is the human risk component. Elevate Security provides a way to quantify this human risk across the entire organization using security incident data that is already available. Quantifying human risk and analyzing it as part of an overall cyber risk framework provides unique insights to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Armed with this insight, CISO’s are in a much better position to optimize their security technology spend, focus their monitoring and detection capabilities on the high risk groups and strengthen their overall cyber defense strategy. Medium and large enterprises across industries, from financial services, technology, healthcare and more, have benefited from increased cyber resilience by incorporating Elevate Security into their security infrastructure.

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Sevco Security | December 14, 2022

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