Secure Passage Promotes Tim Woods to Vice President of Customer Technology Services; New Role to Further Accelerate Customer Acquisition and Retention
| Source: Secure Passage
OVERLAND PARK, KS--(Marketwire - December 16, 2008) - Secure Passage, the leading provider of
Security Analysis and Compliance solutions for network devices including
firewalls, switches and routers, today announced that Tim Woods has been
promoted to Vice President of Customer Technology Services. In his new
role, Woods will be responsible for leading the company's customer
relationship initiatives to engage customers and partners while further
developing global support and services.
"With more than two decades of deep domain information security expertise
and a proven track record of leading sales and support teams to success,
Tim is well positioned to lead Secure Passage's customer technology
services and further improve our long-term competitiveness," said Secure
Passage CEO and Co-Founder Gary Fish. "Tim's engaging leadership style and
strong values have been instrumental in growing our customer base. He will
play a key role in helping Secure Passage achieve its vision to instill
enterprises with absolute confidence in their network security and
compliance."
"I am pleased and excited about this new opportunity as it comes at a time
when the critical need for Secure Passage's Security Analysis and
Compliance solutions has never been greater," Woods said. "I look forward
to engaging with our customers to help them overcome these challenging
times when IT security is tasked with doing more with fewer resources."
More than 200 large enterprises and organizations have deployed Secure
Passage's flagship product FireMon and there are more than 25,000 network
devices that are being monitored by FireMon deployments around the world.
As part of his new duties, Woods will work closely with customers and
partners to further enhance FireMon's features and functionality so that
global enterprises can reduce operational costs, improve network
performance, ensure security and achieve compliance goals.
Before joining Secure Passage, Woods spent three years at Crossbeam Systems
Inc., a company that transforms the way enterprises, service providers and
government agencies architect and deliver security service. There he was
responsible for technical recruitment and developing a top notch sales
engineering team. Previously, Woods was the Security Engineer manager for
Nokia Enterprise Solutions, where he managed the pre-sales technical
resources and led a team of sales engineers supporting security and mobile
enterprise sales. He spent 10 years at Intrusion.com where he managed and
supervised all aspects of technical personnel selection and department
administration.
Woods served eight years in the Naval Intelligence community and attended
the University of Maryland majoring in Information Systems.
About Secure Passage
Secure Passage is the leading provider of Security Analysis and Compliance
solutions that simplify and automate the analysis of Configuration and
Change Management processes to enhance security, optimize performance, and
speed compliance reporting. The company's flagship product, FireMon,
analyzes changes and performs audits in real-time, simplifies policy
management, and enforces configuration governance across firewalls,
switches, routers and other network devices. FireMon is the only solution
on the market that can be customized to meet the unique audit and
compliance reporting requirements for networks of all sizes while enabling
IT organizations to do more with less effort. Enterprise strength
deployments of FireMon around the world support more than 25,000 security
devices from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, and McAfee. For
more information, visit www.securepassage.com.