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BlueteamGlobal: Cybersecurity Firm Launches With $125 Million Round, Deep Senior TeamNEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- BlueteamGlobal, a cybersecurity services firm, today announced the launch of operations, the merger into BlueteamGlobal of three cybersecurity technology businesses (BitVoyant, K2G, and K2 Cyber Defense), and new funding for growth of more than $125 million in financing from institutional and individual investors. Co-founded by CEO Jim Rosenthal, former Chief Operating Officer at Morgan Stanley, and Executive Chairman Tom Glocer, former Chief Executive Officer at Thomson Reuters, BlueteamGlobal will provide Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence for large companies and Managed Cyber Security Services for smaller businesses. BlueteamGlobal, which has offices in New York, the Washington, D.C. area, London, Madrid, and Tel Aviv, has assembled a deep team of senior leaders from both the private sector and national security agencies:
"In my role at Morgan Stanley, I spent considerable time focused on cybersecurity issues, working with Tom – as the security lead on Morgan Stanley's board – to build out an elite team to protect the firm against advanced attack techniques – in the same way that the national security agencies take on that role for the U.S. government," Jim Rosenthal said. "BlueteamGlobal will provide the same kind of expertise and intelligence to companies around the world." Tom Glocer added that the corporate need for sophisticated cyber intelligene is high and increasing. "Over the course of my career in IT, cyber threats have evolved from technology-adept amateurs to sophisticated nation states and criminals," he said. "BlueteamGlobal will deliver threat intelligence and defense capabilities to address the current generation of advanced persistent threats." BlueteamGlobal will initially target the North American and European markets, but soon expand to other regions. BlueteamGlobal's board of directors will include Rosenthal, Glocer, Goldstein, as well as Jules Kroll, Chairman and Co-Founder of K2 Intelligence and Nadav Zafrir, CEO of Team8, and former Commander of the IDF's Unit 8200, together with several investors. BlueteamGlobal is also forming an Advisory Board, to be chaired by Admiral Mike Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The company will have a strategic business alliance with K2 Intelligence, a global investigative, compliance and cybersecurity defense services firm, and a Blueteam founding shareholder. Blueteam has also formed a strategic business alliance with Team8, a cybersecurity think tank and company creation platform with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. "At K2 Intelligence, we recognize our clients' need for a full range of cybersecurity, investigative and compliance solutions," K2 Intelligence's Jules Kroll said. "We are delighted to now scale these capabilities by teaming our cyber operations with BlueteamGlobal." Jared Novick, the CEO of BitVoyant added, "We have taken our cyber threat intelligence capabilities to a new level by combining with the talent and funding of BlueteamGlobal." About the Founders Tom Glocer was CEO of Thomson Reuters and its predecessor firm, Reuters, from 2001 through 2011. He chairs the Operations and Technology committee of the Morgan Stanley Board of Directors and will become the Board's lead director in September. Glocer also serves on the Boards of Merck & Co., Publicis Groupe and K2 Intelligence; he is a trustee of the Cleveland Clinic and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Glocer has a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Columbia University. About BitVoyant About K2 Intelligence and K2 Cyber Defense About K2G About BlueteamGlobal Media Contact: View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/blueteamglobal-cybersecurity-firm-launches-with-125-million-round-deep-senior-team-300498899.html SOURCE BlueteamGlobal |