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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Product operating in the Network Security space. If you think a Product is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Brian Shorland
Senior Director of Product Management of BlueCat
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About BlueCat: BlueCat builds next-generation IPAM, DNS, and DHCP solutions that connect mobile devices, applications, and the cloud.
Gavin Millard
Vice President of Product Marketing of Tenable
Gavin is a trained, ethical hacker who works with medium and large enterprises to address their cybersecurity challenges. With a deep understanding of how attackers plot a breach, he helps bring these companies to a trusted state of IT infrastructure. He previously worked as the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) technical director for Tripwire. He has also spoken frequently on data integrity, hacking and other key security topics. Current Position: As Technical Director, Gavin is involved with the major clients in the EMEA region, helping to manage and reduce their attack surface.
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About Tenable, Tenable: Tenable helps organizations to understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk across the full range of modern computing assets.
Andrew Dickerson
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Responsible for a team of Product Marketeers for Backup, Recovery and Archive Products and Solutions within the Storage Organization.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Adenike Cosgrove
Director, International Product Marketing of Proofpoint
Adenike Cosgrove is a Cybersecurity Strategist at Proofpoint, where she drives International product marketing strategy. She provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management and data privacy. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Ms. Cosgrove was global product marketing lead for Email Fraud Protection at Return Path, a division acquired by Proofpoint in the summer of 2016. Earlier in her career, Ms. Cosgrove worked as a lead EMEA advisor to security and risk professionals for Forrester Research, where she developed a deep understanding of CISO challenges, and helped clients with their cybersecurity strategies.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Richard Davis
Group Product Marketing Manager of Proofpoint
Richard is a seasoned Cybersecurity professional with over 20 years’ experience and passionate about helping organisations protect their people. Richard has been at Proofpoint for the last 10 years and has held various roles including Principal Architect, EMEA Product Manager and is currently part of the Global Cybersecurity Strategy team. As part of this team Richard regularly meets Proofpoint Customers to advise on their cyber security strategy. Richard holds an Engineering degree from the University of Exeter and started his career working as a software engineer for a small security vendor, followed by a number of years working in the IT Security Channel.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Robert Dobson
Vice President, Technology Partners, and Product Marketing of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
Chris Pace
VP, Product & Content Marketing of Immersive Labs
A talented communicator with a strong background in creation and development of compelling content. My background combines journalism, technology, security, and marketing, meaning I’m always discovering cool ways to attract an audience and drive engagement.
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About Coincover, Immersive Labs: Immersive Labs develops a platform that measures and improves cybersecurity skills across businesses.
Richard Beckett
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Sophos
Richard Beckett is responsible for Product Marketing of Sophos public cloud and SaaS email security tech. After getting his break working with tech startups and telecom VARs, he spent the best part of his 20s and 30’s in Product Management and Product Marketing for premium IaaS hosting brands, before joining Sophos in 2016.
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About Sophos: Sophos develops network security and threat management products to protect organizations against malicious acts.
John Stock
Product Manager of Outpost24
Product Manager at Outpost24.
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About Outpost24: Outpost24 is a leading cyber assessment company focused on enabling its customers to improve their security posture with the least effort
Imran Idrees
Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Meraki
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About Meraki: Meraki provides Cisco-based, cloud-controlled Wi-Fi and routing and security products for distributed wired and wireless networks.
Alastair Parr
SVP of Global Products & Delivery of Prevalent Networks
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About 3GRC, Prevalent Networks: Prevalent was founded two goals in mind. First, to work with the leaders in information security
