McAfee Veteran Joins Perimeter E-Security's Compliance and Security Development Team

MILFORD, Conn., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Perimeter E-Security, the trusted market leader of information security services that deliver enterprise-class protection and compliance to companies of all sizes, today announced the appointment of John Viega to the position of EVP of Products and Engineering.  An esteemed author of numerous security books, including the recent "Myths of Security" and the seminal "Building Secure Software," as well as a contributor to several prominent technology standards, John will be responsible for leading Perimeter's product management and product development.  

"John brings a rich security expertise to further enhance the development of Perimeter's technology roadmap," said Tim Harvey, CEO of Perimeter E-Security.  "We look forward to John's product leadership role in driving and refining our market leading suite of services to help address the increasingly complex compliance and security needs of our customers."

Most recently, John was at McAfee, where his jobs included CTO and VP of Engineering for the Software-as-a-Service business unit and where he worked on M+A and also owned McAfee's core technologies, such as anti-virus and the SiteAdvisor product.  

"The combined pressures of compliance and cyber security is creating a need for a new class of tools to address the growing new regulations and threats facing all businesses today," said John Viega.  "Not only is Perimeter's compliance, messaging and security business strong, but there is tremendous growth potential.  Viewpoint is a particularly impressive product. No other company offers an easy to use security management platform that integrates so many security services into one portal.  I look forward to bringing my technology experience to spearhead Perimeter's talented product development team."

Perimeter continues to garner an accolade of technology awards, such as SC Magazine's recent 5-Star award for Perimeter's firewall services.  Launched in 2009, Viewpoint 2.0, the industry's first correlative security engine with built-in compliance profiler, is generating enormous positive responses from customers by helping them to gain an understanding and manage security threats across a company's entire network from one single platform.

John also founded Secure Software, which was later acquired by Fortify, where John is still an advisor.  John is an editor for IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, and his technical work in cryptography has been standardized by NIST, the IEEE and IETF.  He has a MS in Computer Science and a BA from the University of Virginia.

About Perimeter

Perimeter is the trusted market leader of information security services that delivers enterprise-class protection and compliance.  Through its cost-effective and scalable SaaS platform, Perimeter offers the most comprehensive compliance, security and messaging services that include: hosted email, encrypted email, firewall management and monitoring, vulnerability scanning, host intrusion and prevention, email antivirus and spam, remote data backup and email archiving.  For more information about Perimeter visit www.perimeterusa.com.

SOURCE Perimeter E-Security