Cloud-computing security startup Threat Stack names new CEO
May 28, 2015
Grazed from BetaBoston. Author: Curt Woodward.
Threat Stack, a growing digital security company based in Cambridge, has hired its third chief executive as it seeks to add more customers in the cloud-computing sector. Brian Ahern, formerly the founder and CEO of Foxborough-based security company Industrial Defender, is Threat Stack’s new boss. He replaces Doug Cahill, who was brought on as CEO last year.
At Industrial Defender, Ahearn built a company that helped owners of oil refineries, electric power plants, and other industrial facilities identify and thwart cyberattacks against the software controlling their complicated systems. The company was acquired by Lockheed Martin last year…
Threat Stack, Ahern said, fills a very similar niche. But instead of electric grids and gas turbines, the startup is helping to protect software running on servers rented from Amazon Web Services — a widespread trend typically known as cloud computing…
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