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Gurucul Expands to Asia Pacific to Meet Growing Demand in RegionGurucul, a market leader in advanced security intelligence and analytics, user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) and identity analytics (IdA) for on-premises and the cloud, today announced it is expanding operations in Asia Pacific to meet increasing demand for its products. The company has appointed Sandeep Puri, former head of sales at Symantec (News - Alert)/Blue Coat, to lead its go to market in the India region. Gurucul has several customer deployments in India and surrounding countries. "Sandeep Puri is a proven security industry sales leader with strong relationships in the enterprise market and among systems integrators throughout India and Southeast Asia," said Saryu Nayyar, CEO of Gurucul. "His leadership and experience in helping customers successfully adopt innovative security products in the fast growing APAC cyber security market will ensure that Gurucul capitalizes on burgeoning demand in the region." Worldwide, compromised identities are the leading cause of data breaches. The recently released 2017 Verizon (News - Alert) Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) found that a whopping 81% of hacking-related breaches use either stolen and/or weak passwords making identity a core issue of modern threats. Gurucul is seeing a significant increase in RFI (News - Alert)/RFPs and proofs of concept in India and Southeast Asia among organizations that want to implement continuous adaptive risk and threat assessment using machine learning and big data. The company has offices in Pune, India and will expand its presence in the region, including additional sales and services staff and infrastructure. "It's an exciting time t join Gurucul, which is the Advanced Security Analytics and UEBA-IdA leader. The company's mature product addresses three of the most challenging aspects of IT and information security -- insider threats, account compromise and privilege abuse," said Sandeep Puri. "Gurucul already has traction in India among enterprise customers and strong relationships with major information technology services companies. I look forward to extending Gurucul's footprint in the region." Sandeep Puri has more than 20 years of experience in business development, channels and sales management in India. Most recently, Sandeep was head of enterprise sales for India and SAARC at Symantec/Blue Coat (News - Alert) Systems. Previously, he was business head of India North and West for X-IO Technologies, a provider of advanced data storage and edge computing systems. Sandeep has also managed storage and networking product lines for IBM (News - Alert) in India.
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