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SimSpace Expands Leadership Team by Appointing Clint Sand as New Chief Product Officer
BOSTON, Feb. 21, 2024 /CNW/ — SimSpace, the US-based market-leader in high-fidelity cyber ranges, has today announced Clint Sand as its new Chief Product Officer (CPO), effective February 21, 2024. Clint will play an instrumental role in spearheading SimSpace’s product management, content, design, and platform engineering teams as the company adds further AI/ML-based capabilities to their technology. Clint’s strategic appointment strengthens SimSpace’s executive leadership team as the company aims to take its battle-tested platform to the broader enterprise market to help organizations of all sizes and levels of sophistication to optimize security operations for maximum risk management.
With the average cost of a cyber-breach now $4.45 million, regulators and insurers are cracking down on Governance, Risk and Compliance measures to ensure the security of critical private and public sector entities. SimSpace’s platform not only prepares their customers to withstand severe cyber incidents but also enables them to understand where they can improve their security controls and how to better optimize their security spend. Clint will lead the ongoing evolution of the SimSpace Cyber Force platform, enabling customers to regularly stress test themselves and optimize their tools and their spending in safe, high-fidelity replicas of the systems they defend every day.
Clint brings over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity products at companies like Malwarebytes, NortonLifelock, and most recently Corelight, where he led product efforts to serve the needs of sophisticated defenders while also delivering new SaaS offerings and innovations in AI to serve the needs of organizations of all maturity levels.
The announcement supports SimSpace’s recent $45 million equity raise, bringing last year’s total funding to nearly $70 million.
“Clint joins the SimSpace C-suite with a proven track record of supporting the commercial growth initiatives of large companies. Boards are now making cybersecurity a central pillar of their investment strategy, and Clint’s appointment will serve to strengthen the product portfolio of our customers as CISOs and CEOs continue to make critical ROI decisions,” said William Hutchison, CEO and co-founder of SimSpace. “The SimSpace executive team is looking forward to working with an engineer of Clint’s caliber, accelerating our growth trajectory and expanding into new markets.”
Allied governments, militaries, commercial enterprises, and research universities worldwide trust SimSpace as the AI Proving Grounds where human operators and AI agents train and test together in a realistic replica of their production environments to outperform and outsmart any adversary in any terrain. To learn more, visit: http://www.SimSpace.com.