Pathlock Adds Rick Howard to Board of Directors

Strategic Addition Adds to Security Focus, Fuels Ongoing Growth

Pathlock, the leading provider of unified access orchestration, today introduces Rick Howard, security expert and Zero Trust evangelist, as a board director. This strategic announcement comes on the heels of the company’s $20 million strategic growth investment from Vertica Capital Partners.

Howard’s industry insights will provide invaluable direction to Pathlock’s strategy as it expands its leadership in protecting critical business applications. Rick serves as the Chief Analyst, Chief Security Officer, and Senior Fellow at The CyberWire, a cybersecurity podcasting network. His CSO Perspectives podcasts are some of the most popular in the cybersecurity leadership community, with an international audience of thousands of industry executives. Rick has amassed a community of loyal followers who follow him for his forward-thinking content covering emerging topics such as Zero Trust, intrusion kill chain prevention, resilience, risk forecasting, and more.

“Zero Trust has emerged as a cybersecurity first principle strategy for all organizations designed to defeat adversary threat groups as they evolve their supply chain attacks, like the SolarWinds campaign, and move laterally within their victim’s networks,” said Howard.

“While organizations have historically focused on network, endpoint, and identity management systems to mature their Zero Trust posture, moving up the stack to layer seven, the application layer, makes complete sense in this new cloud world. Applications are the guideposts to where your material data sets reside. I am extremely excited about Pathlock’s unique approach to securing these applications.”

Howard will also bring valuable practitioner experience from decades of leadership in the cybersecurity industry. His prior roles include the Palo Alto Network’s CSO, the TASC CISO, the iDefense GM (a commercial cyber threat intelligence service at Verisign), the Counterpane Global SOC Director (one of the original MSSPs), and the Commander of the U.S. Army’s Computer Emergency Response Team where he coordinated network defense, network intelligence and network attack operations for the Army’s global network.

“We are honored to have Rick join our board as we chart our expanded strategy as Pathlock,” said Anand Adya, chairman at Pathlock. “Rick is an incredibly respected cybersecurity industry veteran and thought leader who will provide invaluable perspective as we continue to forge our path in Zero Trust. As a product-focused company, it was critical to ensure that we build around technical and industry expertise, from the board level down.”

Rick will be joining Philip Vorobeychik, Managing Director at Vertica Capital Partners, Vitaly Vorobeychik, Managing Director at Vertica Capital Partners, Piyush Pandey, CEO of Pathlock, and Anand Adya of Pathlock, as a board director at Pathlock.

About Pathlock
Pathlock protects digital enterprises from the inside out. Our unified access orchestration solution supports companies on their journey to Zero Trust by surfacing violations and taking action to prevent loss. Enterprises can manage all aspects of access governance in a single platform, including user provisioning and temporary elevation, ongoing User Access Reviews, control testing, transaction monitoring, and audit preparation. Today, many of the world’s most respected, global 2000 companies rely on Pathlock to protect their critical digital assets from financial, operational, regulatory and security threats, ensure corporate compliance and improve performance. Our customers have saved millions in employee productivity, labor costs, audit fees and data loss prevention.