CloudPassage Adds Palo Alto Networks Veteran, Larry Link, to Board of Directors

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - May 12, 2014) - CloudPassage, the leading Software Defined Security (SDSec) company, today announced that Larry Link, angel investor, advisor and former Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Palo Alto Networks, has joined the CloudPassage board of directors. Link brings 25 years of experience as a senior operating executive with an impressive background in the enterprise market to his role as a CloudPassage board member.

"Larry brings with him a very rare track record of enterprise success as both an executive and advisor. He has a deep understanding of scaling revenue trajectories of disruptive technologies. From running worldwide sales for Palo Alto Networks, taking them from their earliest days all the way through IPO, to acting on the board of Mojave Networks, DB Networks and NetCitadel, Larry's counsel is incredibly valuable," said Carson Sweet, CEO of CloudPassage. "We look forward to his expertise not only in the boardroom but also on the ground with our team as an advisor."

Link's operating experience includes leadership roles at successful startups, like Silver Peak Systems, Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks,) and Excite@Home. Earlier in his career, he held sales and sales management positions at Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard.

"CloudPassage is removing the security obstacle standing between enterprises and the promise of the cloud. I'm excited to work with the CloudPassage team and help them drive the solution further into the market," said Larry Link.

Halo®, CloudPassage's security automation platform purpose-built for cloud environments, delivers security and compliance for large-scale, distributed cloud hosting operations. Halo was built to be flexible, lightweight and fast to deploy and scale, regardless of the environment. CloudPassage currently protects more than 400 production application deployments in the cloud, including a number of Fortune 1000 enterprises, and automates security for more than 10,000 new cloud workload instances each month.

About CloudPassage
CloudPassage is the leading Software Defined Security (SDSec) company, addressing the number one inhibitor to cloud infrastructure adoption -- security. The patented CloudPassage Halo platform is the industry's only security and compliance SaaS solution purpose-built to handle the dynamic nature of software defined environments, public, private, hybrid cloud and traditional data centers. Halo operates seamlessly across these environments providing a range of automated security and compliance controls needed to enable cloud adoption. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudpassage.com

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