Yardstik Adds Arctic Wolf CEO Nick Schneider to Board of Directors

The appointment follows Yardstik's $30M Series B and deepens the company's focus on the security risks that surface beyond a candidate's point of hire

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Yardstik, the Human Trust Platform for employers, today announced that Nick Schneider, President and CEO of the cybersecurity and AI company Arctic Wolf, has joined its board of directors. The appointment comes weeks after Yardstik closed $30 million in new funding Series B led by Harbert Growth Partners to build out fraud prevention, continuous monitoring, and credential tracking through the entire worker lifecycle.

Schneider has spent more than 20 years building high-growth technology companies at scale. As President and CEO of Arctic Wolf® since 2021, he has grown Arctic Wolf into one of the largest privately held cybersecurity companies, driven its international expansion, and established the company as an industry leader. Arctic Wolf ranks among Forbes' top 25 Cloud 100 companies and has been named to the Fortune Cyber 60. Under his leadership, Arctic Wolf launched the Aurora® Agentic SOC, the industry's leading agentic security operations center, and was named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Service for Midmarket, cementing its place among the top cybersecurity companies in the industry. Before Arctic Wolf, he ran North American sales at Code42 and held senior sales roles at Compellent Technologies through its IPO and acquisition by Dell.

Yardstik and Arctic Wolf sit on opposite sides of the same problem: keeping bad actors out of a company's systems and workforce. In June 2025, the Department of Justice broke up a network of laptop farms that let North Korean operatives pose as remote IT workers using stolen American identities. They'd landed jobs at more than 100 U.S. companies, several of them Fortune 500 firms. A second case unsealed later that year tied a five-person facilitator ring to fraudulent placements at 136 more companies. Some of those workers went on to steal data from the same employers who'd hired them and tried to extort them for it.

Arctic Wolf watches the network for signs something's gone wrong once someone's already inside. Yardstik monitors the person behind the login: who was actually hired, whether their credentials are still valid, and whether the person clocking in today was the one who passed the background check six months ago. Ponemon's 2026 research puts the average cost of insider risk at $19.5 million a year per organization, and Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report ties roughly three in ten breaches to an insider. A background check run once at hire can't catch any of that. It only proves who someone was on the day they applied.

"Nick has spent his career proving that real security is never a one-time check, it's a continuous journey." said Andrew Johnson, CEO of Yardstik. "You don't scan a network once and call it safe. Every attack surface gets watched continuously except one...the workforce. A candidate clears a background check at the point of hire and nobody bothers to check again. That's the gap we built Yardstik to close, and Nick understood the importance immediately."

"Companies have invested heavily in securing their networks, but people accessing those systems are still an underprotected part of the security equation," said Nick Schneider, President and CEO of Arctic Wolf. "Yardstik is bringing a modern approach to workforce risk by giving businesses greater visibility into who is accessing their organization and how that risk can change over time. I'm excited to help the company establish lifecycle workforce protection as a core part of the enterprise security stack as it enters its next stage of growth."

Schneider's appointment expands Yardstik's board as the company scales past its Series B, adding a director with direct experience turning a security platform into a channel-driven growth engine. A path Yardstik is now pursuing with its own ATS, HR, and marketplace integration partners.

About Yardstik

Yardstik is a Human Trust Platform built to help organizations move beyond one-time background checks toward a continuous and transparent workforce lifecycle. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, Yardstik combines fraud prevention and background verification into a single, cost-efficient platform used by customers including HR Block and Gopuff. Yardstik operates in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), providing full transparency to the individuals it monitors.

About Arctic Wolf

Arctic Wolf is the cybersecurity and AI company that ends cyber risk by transforming it into business resilience. Powered by the Aurora® Superintelligence Platform, Arctic Wolf delivers modern security operations built on proprietary AI and decades of real-world expertise. By combining AI-driven automation with expert-validated precision, Arctic Wolf takes ownership of cyber risk — so organizations can operate with confidence, control, and the freedom to innovate.

To learn more about Arctic Wolf, visit www.arcticwolf.com.

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