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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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Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis on the Global Vulnerability Management Market finds that enterprises are becoming more vulnerable to cyber-attacks as they embrace digital transformation initiatives. This is due to an expanded attack surface resulting from multiple touchpoints through an open network and easy accessibility to databases and applications. An expanded attack surface has triggered the need for greater investments in vulnerability management (VM) solutions. Given this demand, the global VM market is expected to reach $2.51 billion by 2025, expanding at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16.3%. From a regional perspective, North America will continue to dominate the VM market over the forecast period. The recent executive order to improve US cybersecurity is one of the main demand drivers in the region. Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) will be the second-largest VM market as a result of regulations such as General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Finally, the growing significance of cybersecurity among end-users and rapid digital transformation initiatives encourage organizations to embrace VM in APAC and Central and Latin America. The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting work-from-home economy have expanded organizations' attack surface. With organizations adjusting to a new mode of business operations, VM capabilities for emerging platforms and applications will gain traction,In addition, as businesses embrace network-attached endpoints, cloud-based applications, and connected devices, the need for managing vulnerabilities in the extended attack surface will surge. Swetha R Krishnamoorthi, Senior Industry Analyst, Cybersecurity at Frost & Sullivan Swetha added: "Organizations' move toward holistic and focused security will encourage vendors to integrate capabilities from upstream, downstream, and alternative applications. Over the next decade, there will also be a likely emergence of an 'integrated security posture assessment tool' that provides end-to-end risk management for enterprises." Increased threats amid higher numbers of connected devices and regulatory requirements for organizations to perform regular vulnerability scanning and remediation will present lucrative growth prospects for VM vendors, including: Addressing end-to-end vulnerability management workflow through an integrated platform by having an extensive list of integrations that enable an organization to pull in data from different tools and trigger workflows on other platforms from a single pane of glass. Focusing on emerging economies and identifying local distribution partners and value-added resellers to boost expansion initiatives in emerging markets. Leveraging managed security service providers (MSSPs) as a revenue source to expand the customer base by developing a separate pricing model that works well for both MSSPs and customers, ensuring profitability. Expanding asset-type coverage to a non-conventional environment through strategic partnerships or inorganic deals with operational technology security vendors to hasten the acquisition of capabilities and achieve growth. Global Vulnerability Management Market, Forecast to 2025 is the latest addition to Frost & Sullivan's Information & Communication Technology research and analyses available through the Frost & Sullivan Leadership Council, which helps organizations identify a continuous flow of growth opportunities to succeed in an unpredictable future. About Frost & Sullivan For six decades, Frost & Sullivan has been world-renowned for its role in helping investors, corporate leaders and governments navigate economic changes and identify disruptive technologies, Mega Trends, new business models, and companies to action, resulting in a continuous flow of growth opportunities to drive future success.

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