WASHINGTON, May 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- SpiderOak is
pleased to announce and welcome Andrew J.
Friedrich as Vice President of Marketing, working remotely
in both the Boston and DC Metro
Area. In this role, Friedrich will focus on establishing the
SpiderOak and SpiderOak Mission Systems brands across both
public sector and commercial marketspaces.
Prior to joining SpiderOak, Friedrich founded the CyberComm
Communications Corporation in 2017, acting as Managing
Director/Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, Friedrich provided
strategic marketing services to clients focused on selling cyber,
infosec and cloud security software offerings to Federal
markets.
Friedrich spent over a decade at IBM, joining Big Blue in 2005
following the acquisition of the In-Q-tel start-up Systems Research
& Development (SRD) where he was the Director of Product
Marketing. As an IBMer Friedrich held numerous leadership
positions and led the development of the company's highly
successful Threat & Fraud Intelligence solutions practice.
Recruited to IBM's Public Sector IMT in 2010, Friedrich led the
Federal Analytics go-to market strategy for Big Data, Cyber
Analytics and Cloud solution offerings. Prior to IBM he held a
variety of senior leadership roles with Acxiom, Arkidata and XDB
Systems.
"Andrew is a proven marketing leader and we welcome his
strategic expertise to strengthen SpiderOak's industry position and
revenue growth," said Dave
Pearah, CEO at SpiderOak. "His experience will be
invaluable as we strive to make our Distributed Ledger/Blockchain
and No-Knowledge Encryption based solutions the standard for secure
communication and collaboration in insecure and contested
environments."
"SpiderOak's security value proposition could not be more
relevant to the federal marketplace than it is right now,"
Friedrich said. "The pandemic has forced many organizations to
rapidly expand their use of remote telework and collaboration
products beyond their original use case, straining these systems
and exposing vulnerabilities. The results have been obvious;
high profile security incidents and PR damage control with software
providers hurriedly retrofitting existing offerings with the
security capabilities they should have had in the first
place." Friedrich continued, "To meet the
communication and collaboration requirements of the federal mission
space, systems must be secure by design, able to protect data
confidentiality, integrity and availability even in the most
insecure and hostile environments; this is where SpiderOak really
shines!"
Friedrich earned a B.A. in Political Science from UMass Dartmouth, and holds professional
certifications including the ISC2 CISSP (Certified Information
Systems Security Professional) and a Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)
Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK). He is also a member
of the Cybersecurity Advisory Board at the Pace University Seidenberg School of Computer
Science and Information Systems.
"Managing authority and trust around data and processes is a
challenge to all industries but failing to do so in classified
environments can be catastrophic," added Pearah.
"SpiderOak's application of Distributed Ledger/Blockchain
technology eliminates entire categories of cyber-attacks,
drastically limiting the number of things attackers can take
advantage of to breach your defenses. Andrew's experience and
expertise brings us one step closer to fulfilling our
mission."
About SpiderOak, Inc.: SpiderOak, Inc. and its wholly owned
subsidiary SpiderOak Mission Systems offer tools to Commercial and
Government communities which enable the creation of secure virtual
enclaves. Designed to offer strict need-to-know assurances; we
believe you deserve the easy, efficient deployment of SaaS
solutions without compromising the security of the mission,
sensitive information, or team members themselves. Built on
distributed ledger (blockchain) technology. Cryptographically
secure, zero-trust, compartmentalized data protection with
mission-level controls, even over arbitrary networks.
Enterprise controls for distributed systems is the future of
security.
Also, join SpiderOak Mission Systems and CarahSoft on
June 10 for our joint webinar "Secure
Communications in an Insecure and Contested World."
For inquiries, please call Dave
Pearah, (866) 432-9888 ext. 6 or write
pr@spideroak-inc.com
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