Virsec is investing in senior executive hires to drive expansion in Australia and New Zealand.
Virsec has appointed IT executives Rob Nobilo and Ben Burt to leadership roles: Nobilo has been hired as regional sales director and Burt as regional technical services director in A/NZ. Both were former employees of Palo Alto Networks.
Virsec international business senior vice president and managing director Bobby Gupta says the focus in A/NZ will be on protecting vulnerable critical infrastructure across the defence, energy, and water sectors, along with large enterprises including banks, financial services, telcos, and retailers.
“Virsec has a very ambitious plan for Australia and New Zealand. We already have a presence in Brisbane and Melbourne and plan to hire more staff in Sydney and Canberra,” says Gupta.
Gupta adds: “In a very short time since launching our product in Australia, we have signed some key strategic partners and we recently went live with a new major customer.”
Virsec says Nobilo brings years of experience as a former sales director at Palo Alto Networks, managing enterprise accounts in BFSI, retail, healthcare, utilities, and mining. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, Nobilo spent five years at Dimension Data (now NTT) in various roles including security practice manager and national business manager of managed security services.
Nobilo comments on his appointment: “Virsec is gearing up for rapid growth in the A/NZ region and I am keen to continue building the team over the coming year. The cybersecurity market in ANZ is worth around $5 billion, and we will keep expanding at an annual rate of 18% till 2026.”
Ben Burt, a former systems engineer, has extensive experience in delivering tailored cybersecurity solutions for SME customers all the way to telcos, government entities, and service providers.
According to Gupta, Virsec has leveraged its expertise in microprocessor architecture, software design, and cybersecurity to develop a highly sophisticated, novel approach to protecting software applications and workloads.
“Virsec provides the first and only application-aware workload protection platform that incorporates System Integrity Assurance, Application Control and Memory Protection into a single solution. We deliver in-depth visibility across the entire workload and detect, and block known and unknown threats that remain undetected by heuristic and endpoint security solutions,” concludes Gupta.
Virsec says its major customers include Global Fortune 500 enterprises, critical infrastructure providers, US federal government, defence contractors, and US government allies.
