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Source: DomainTools

Farsight Security Expands Executive Team to Accelerate Company Growth

SAN MATEO, Calif., April 10, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Following a record-breaking Q1 2017, Farsight Security, Inc., provider of the world’s largest real-time DNS threat intelligence, today announced the company has expanded its technical and business teams to build on this success and accelerate company growth.

Anne Hiller is named Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships. Daniel Schwalbe joins as Director of Engineering, replacing Ben April, who now leads the company’s newly formed Research team as Director of Research, and Tony Patti joins as Director of New Business.

“Anne, Daniel and Tony are proven industry leaders and I am delighted to have them join Farsight. As Director of Engineering, Daniel will execute our product vision as well as provide technical leadership to our highly experienced technical team. On the business side, Anne and Tony will help drive revenue for the company and build new relationships with partners and commercial and government organizations who want to consume our data. Organizations around the world increasingly are using our valuable DNS data to identify and protect against the latest cyberattacks,” said Dr. Paul Vixie, CEO and Cofounder of Farsight Security, Inc.

Ms. Hiller has extensive experience in business development and marketing for Internet security solution providers. Prior to joining Farsight, she served as Vice President of Marketing for 41st Parameter, a provider of person-not-present fraud detection solutions acquired by Experian. Ms. Hiller was also Vice President of Marketing for Identity Engines, provider of NAC/IAM appliances and Best-of-Interop winner.  Earlier in her career, she was Senior Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at WholeSecurity, which was acquired by Symantec and its zero-hour behavioral malware detection solution embedded in Norton products as SONAR. Ms. Hiller earned an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BA from Michigan State University.

“Farsight Security’s partners are leveraging our portfolio of real-time and historical passive DNS data offerings to deliver innovative threat mitigation products and services around the globe,” said Anne Hiller, Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, Farsight Security, Inc. “I have been extremely impressed with the caliber of these firms and the impact their solutions are delivering for customers, and I look forward to working with them as we collaborate to defeat threat actors.”

Daniel Schwalbe is a veteran information security professional with 17 years of experience leading incident response and digital forensics efforts in large enterprise settings. Prior to joining Farsight, Mr. Schwalbe served as Associate Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Washington, where his focus areas were threat intelligence, information sharing and asset based risk management. He is an active contributor and speaker in the information security community, and previously served on the board of directors for the REN-ISAC. A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Schwalbe has a BA in Communications from the University of Washington and CISSP, CISM, CIPP/US, CSFA certifications.

“In my role as a network defender, I learned pretty early on that context is everything. Without it, it can be difficult to distinguish unusual-but-benign traffic from actual malicious activity. Farsight Security is a preeminent purveyor of real-time actionable threat intelligence that provides this context, and I feel honored and privileged to join the team that helps produce it,” said Mr. Schwalbe, Director of Engineering, Farsight Security, Inc.

Mr. Patti has more than 15 years of experience developing and implementing new sales strategies, tactics, and plans to drive revenue and reduce operating costs for technology organizations. Previously, he served as the Senior Director of Sales at Embarcadero Technologies, where he successfully built and led sales teams selling to F100 companies in all verticals, more than doubling revenue during his tenure at the company. Mr. Patti earned a BA from the University of California, Davis.

“I am excited to join a team of industry pioneers and thought leaders at a time when the cybersecurity market – and demand for Farsight’s DNS intelligence -- is in a period of explosive growth. I look forward to expanding our world-class sales organization to help Farsight achieve its growth potential, while helping companies take a more proactive approach to protect against rapidly evolving security risks,” said Tony Patti, Director of New Business, Farsight Security, Inc.

About Farsight Security, Inc.
Farsight Security, Inc. provides the world’s largest real-time threat intelligence on changes to the Internet. Leveraging proprietary technology with over 200,000 observations/second, Farsight provides the Internet’s view of an organization and how it is changing purposely, inadvertently or maliciously. For more information on Farsight Security, Inc., please visit https://farsightsecurity.com.