Byron Rashed

Byron Rashed

Peoria, Arizona, United States
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Byron Rashed has over a decade of industry experience spearheading global marketing and…

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  • DigitSec Graphic

    DigitSec

    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Reston, VA

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    Scottsdale, AZ

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    Lafayette, Indiana

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    Eatontown, NJ

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    West Chester, PA - Manila, Philippines

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    Los Altos, CA - Wellesley, MA - Helsinki, Finland

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    Milpitas, CA

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  • The Importance of Salesforce Application Security for the Financial Sector

    DigitSec

    Financial services rely on digital systems including SaaS applications, online banking, and mobile apps. Many of these organizations rely on Salesforce and Salesforce Financial Services and Experience Cloud. Since Salesforce leverages a Shared Responsibility Model, users are responsible for custom code, compliance requirements, and securing data.

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  • The Healthcare Industry Under Attack

    DigitSec

    Healthcare consists of complex networks and contains highly prized Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that is sold and traded in the underground economy. Healthcare networks contain Internet, Intranet, IoT, SCADA, and other nodes that dramatically increase the attack surface, giving more opportunities for cybercriminals to try and exploit. Budgets are stretched, and staff members may not always have the time to complete cybersecurity training, leaving them even more vulnerable to social…

    Healthcare consists of complex networks and contains highly prized Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that is sold and traded in the underground economy. Healthcare networks contain Internet, Intranet, IoT, SCADA, and other nodes that dramatically increase the attack surface, giving more opportunities for cybercriminals to try and exploit. Budgets are stretched, and staff members may not always have the time to complete cybersecurity training, leaving them even more vulnerable to social engineering tactics and attacks like ransomware and phishing emails.

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  • Do You Trust and Verify Your Salesforce Application Development

    DigitSec

    Cybersecurity and development teams are in a constant struggle with one another. Code security is important in application development and is becoming essential for businesses that rely on SaaS.

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  • Cybersecurity and SaaS Application Development – Can We All Get Along?

    DigitSec

    Cybersecurity teams strive to be proactive, not reactive and have stringent control of the network topography, including application security. The growing need for users to access business-critical assets and applications has exponentially increased the potential for unintentional vulnerabilities in code.

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  • 59K Data Breaches Reported But Only 91 Fines Imposed Since GDPR

    Information Security Buzz

    In response to the new 2018 breach report from cybersecurity watchdogs with DLA Piper that European companies experience 60,000 data breaches in last 8 months...

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  • 8 New Cyber Threats Outlined by Booz Allen Report

    Information Security Buzz

    Booz Allen today released its newest study, the 2019 Cyber Threat Outlook, which outlines eight new areas of cyber threats in 2019.

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  • InfoArmor: Employees Compromise Cybersecurity In Holiday e-Com – How To Stop It (New Adobe Study Says 2017 e-Com to Break Records)

    Information Security Buzz.com

    A new study by Adobe projects Holiday Ecommerce To Hit Record $107B in 2017; Mobile Will Lead In Visits, based on Adobe data capturing an estimated 80% of online transactions from the top 100 US Web retailers.

    Employees who use their corporate email accounts (either to shop or to verify ID for a personal email account) can substantially increase their employer’s risk of cyber breach-enabling compromised credentials. IT security experts from InfoArmor commented below.

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  • Securing Security Against the "Triple Threat" - Utilizing a Layered IT Security Approach to Combat Internal and External Threats

    GIT Security + Management

  • In Search of Mainframe Engineers

    IBM Systems

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  • Who's Watching the Mainframe?

    IBM Systems Magazine

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  • Can't We All Just Get Along - Why Platform Diversity Is Becoming a Bigger Issue for Enterprise Platform Security

    z/Journal

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  • Beyond the First Line of Defense - Addressing the Limitations of Perimeter IT Security

    Network Support Magazine

Honors & Awards

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    Byron Rashed has over 20 years of industry experience spearheading global marketing and public relations programs in various B2B organizations that target IT security solutions to the enterprise, SMB, and OEM markets.

    As Vice President of Marketing at Centripetal, he led all marketing and PR functions and was part of the senior management team. Previously, he was the Vice President of Global Marketing, Advanced Threat Intelligence for InfoArmor (acquired by Allstate), he was directly…

    Byron Rashed has over 20 years of industry experience spearheading global marketing and public relations programs in various B2B organizations that target IT security solutions to the enterprise, SMB, and OEM markets.

    As Vice President of Marketing at Centripetal, he led all marketing and PR functions and was part of the senior management team. Previously, he was the Vice President of Global Marketing, Advanced Threat Intelligence for InfoArmor (acquired by Allstate), he was directly responsible for creating and implementing all global marketing and public relations strategies and tactics to develop brand awareness, product positioning and corporate communications.

    

Prior to joining InfoArmor, Mr. Rashed was the director of global marketing and product management at Emerging Threats (acquired by Proofpoint), and has held senior level global marketing positions at Altior, FirstCarbon Solutions and SSH Communications Security, the original developer of the Secure Shell (secsh) protocol, and senior global marketing manager at VPNet Technologies (acquired by Avaya).

    

Mr. Rashed holds a Bachelor of Science degree in industrial engineering from New York University – Polytechnic, and a graduate certification in marketing and communications from the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, American Marketing Association and Institute of Industrial Engineers.

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  • Italian

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