Industry veterans Ian Browde and Alison Best have been named part of the business development team at Endace, according to a company press release. Browde will focus on cybersecurity. He previously was the director of strategy and business development at Nokia (News - Alert) Infrastructure Services, where he directed the Nokia-Check Point alliance. Best will be focused on the financial services sector, as well as the enterprise monitoring marketplace. Best formerly worked in sales and business development at Smith Barney, Bloomberg (News - Alert) and BT Radianz.
According to a company press release, the pair will recruit third-party app providers into the Endace Application Dock Partner Program. The Endace Application Dock Partner Program lets third-party, custom and open-source network monitoring and security apps leverage Endace’s packet capture platform, the company said. The Endace Application Dock lets as many as six apps exist alongside the Endace Application Suite, the company adds.
In addition, the Application Dock Partner Program lets third partner application vendors test the performance of their apps on the Endace Platform, as well as benefit from Endace’s channel marketing activities, the company said.
Browde and Best will be among the many Endace team members at the RSA Conference 2011. The conference is taking place Feb. 14 to 18 in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Endace is exhibiting in Booth No. 1039.
“As a platform vendor, our Application Dock Partner Program is central to the success of our business model. To expand and grow the breadth and depth of our proposition, we recognize the need … to bring industry experts on board who have the relationships and skills necessary to recruit and onboard top tier application partners that want to leverage what is now proven to be the best monitoring hardware platform on the market,” Kevin Formby, vice president of business development at Endace, said in a company statement.
In other recent news, TMCnet reports that, “Cyber warfare represents one of the greatest threats to Britain's national security,” says Britain’s Mail Online. The site also notes that the government “recently announced plans to invest £650 million to combat these potential threats, and that's got to be mega-bullish news for AIM-listed Endace.”
Ed Silverstein is a TMCnet contributor. To read more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by Jennifer Russell