New deployment middle opening in Dallas, Texas will velocity up supply instances of Darktrace {hardware} for U.S.-based prospects. Former GoPro govt, Eve Saltman, joins as Chief Authorized Officer and former CRO at Entersekt, Marty Overman, joins as Govt Vice President, Gross sales, Americas.
Darktrace, a worldwide chief in AI for cybersecurity, introduced plans for a brand new 7,555-square-foot deployment middle in Dallas, Texas as a part of an ongoing enlargement effort for the enterprise within the U.S. that features further U.S.-based appointments to Darktrace’s govt group and a collection of recent and upgraded places of work nationwide. The brand new deployment facility, set to be absolutely operational by September 2025, will considerably improve Darktrace’s means to serve its increasing U.S. buyer base. Along with the deployment middle, Darktrace will open a brand new company workplace in Dallas.
Darktrace right now additionally broadcasts the appointments of Eve Saltman as Chief Authorized Officer & Firm Secretary and Marty Overman as Govt Vice President, Gross sales, Americas to the Darktrace Govt Committee. These appointments will assist Darktrace attain and serve much more organizations within the U.S. as they appear to fight escalating cyber threats. In 2024, the common price of a U.S. information breach reached $9.4 million—almost double the worldwide common.[1]
“The U.S. is the world’s largest cybersecurity market and Darktrace is uniquely positioned to assist organizations shield themselves in opposition to novel cyberattacks, so we see monumental alternative for our enterprise to develop its market share within the U.S. and throughout the Americas,” mentioned Jill Popelka, CEO of Darktrace.
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“Along with these new senior hires and expanded services within the U.S., we’re additionally making strategic investments to deepen {our relationships} with the main channel resellers, to reinforce our buyer expertise, to assist Federal prospects with their more and more complicated cybersecurity wants, and to construct our model consciousness on this vital marketplace for cybersecurity.
I’m delighted to welcome Eve and Marty to our Govt group. Eve brings deep expertise main world authorized and industrial groups and serving to to information companies on their scaling journey. Marty has an intensive background main high-performing gross sales groups for among the most fun firms in cybersecurity. We’re lucky to have leaders of this caliber be part of our Govt group at such a vital time for our enterprise.”
“Texas continues to show that whenever you create a business-friendly atmosphere, one of the best and brightest firms will come,” mentioned U.S. Congressman Jake Ellzey for Texas’s sixth Congressional District, the place the brand new Darktrace deployment middle will likely be primarily based. “Darktrace increasing in Farmers Department is one more instance displaying that Texas is open for enterprise and the world is taking discover. In a time when cyberattacks have gotten extra frequent and complex, firms like Darktrace, who’re investing in not simply stopping these assaults but additionally utilizing AI to anticipate them, are extra essential than ever. We’re proud to have them right here in our yard. Welcome to Texas.”
Quicker U.S. deployment for industrial and authorities prospects
Darktrace protects a buyer’s community, cloud, electronic mail or operational know-how environments, primarily based on every buyer’s distinctive necessities. Its trade main AI cybersecurity options might be deployed both by way of cloud or bodily home equipment. As organizations more and more embrace hybrid environments with each on-premises and cloud deployments, demand for bodily home equipment stays excessive. The brand new Dallas deployment middle could have the capability to ship as much as 40,000 home equipment a yr, positioning Darktrace for future progress. The ability can also be anticipated to halve the supply time of Darktrace’s home equipment for U.S. prospects.
Along with serving Darktrace’s non-public sector purchasers, the middle will present devoted deployment and bodily safety capabilities to assist the compliance necessities of Darktrace Federal prospects, the corporate’s Arlington, Virginia-based affiliate serving U.S. Federal authorities businesses. Assembly stringent ISO 27001, NIST, and CMMC requirements, the power additionally considerably will increase storage and manufacturing capability for Commerce Agreements Act-compliant {hardware}, enabling Darktrace Federal to successfully tackle the rising demand from the U.S. Federal authorities amid an more and more complicated menace panorama. The latest attainment of FedRAMP® Excessive authorization additional underscores Darktrace Federal’s ongoing dedication to delivering safe, AI-powered cybersecurity options, whether or not deployed on-premises or within the cloud.
Appointment of recent U.S.-based govt management
Alongside increasing its U.S. footprint, Darktrace can also be welcoming two U.S.-based leaders to its govt group.
Eve Saltman joins Darktrace as Chief Authorized Officer & Firm Secretary from GoPro, Inc., the place she served as Senior Vice President, Company and Enterprise Improvement, Chief Authorized Officer, and Secretary. With deep experience from management roles at outstanding know-how corporations together with Asana and Siebel Programs (acquired by Oracle), Saltman brings deep expertise of constructing authorized, industrial and compliance methods that assist quick rising worldwide companies in complicated industries. Her remit will embody all industrial and company authorized issues, compliance, privateness, danger and governance throughout the enterprise.
Marty Overman will lead Darktrace’s Americas gross sales group, constructing and executing on the corporate’s bold go-to-market plans for the area. She joins from Entersekt, a number one supplier of safe buyer authentication and digital fraud prevention options, the place she has been Chief Income Officer, overseeing the worldwide gross sales group and main the corporate’s go-to-market technique. Overman brings in depth cybersecurity expertise constructed from gross sales management positions at McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, and Imperva.
Commenting on her appointment, Saltman mentioned, “I’m thrilled to affix Darktrace at a pivotal second for the corporate and I look ahead to contributing my expertise to serving to Darktrace scale within the U.S. and globally. As cyber threats develop extra refined, Darktrace’s distinctive strategy is extra important than ever. I’m excited to work with Jill and the complete Darktrace group to proceed rising Darktrace’s place as a frontrunner in AI-driven cybersecurity.”
Commenting on her appointment, Overman mentioned, “Darktrace has an unbelievable product set masking the areas the place organizations are most weak to cyberattack, together with community, electronic mail, cloud and operational know-how. I can see the super alternatives to carry this market-leading know-how to extra organizations throughout the Americas area and am trying ahead to becoming a member of this dynamic group.”
Nationwide workplace improve
Along with the brand new deployment middle, Darktrace additionally plans to open a brand new company workplace in Dallas. This underscores Darktrace’s dedication to increasing its U.S. operations as a part of its long-term progress technique following the 2024 acquisition by Thoma Bravo.
Darktrace operates 12 places of work throughout the U.S., with roughly 800 staff nationwide. Within the final reported full monetary yr (yr ending 30 June 2024), the U.S. enterprise made up 35% of Darktrace’s annual revenues. The Dallas deployment middle and workplace are the most recent investments for Darktrace within the U.S., constructing on workplace upgrades in Austin, Chicago, and the Washington, DC-area in latest months.
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