ExecutiveBiz featured Sean Berg, president of global government and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, in its most recent Executive Spotlight interview published Wednesday. He talked about the company’s focus on the federal sector as a driver for long-term growth, its recent acquisitions to complement existing capabilities, and how zero tr...
Sean Berg, president of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, said agencies looking to implement zero trust architectures should tailor their security strategy to individual users and understand users’ behavior. Berg wrote that implementing security policies that consider all users as equally risky could impede the abil...
Forcepoint has agreed to buy U.K.-based Deep Secure for an undisclosed sum to expand its portfolio of cybersecurity offerings for governments, critical infrastructure and enterprises worldwide. Forcepoint said Tuesday it expects the transaction to be completed in August, pending regulatory review and other customary closing conditions. “The ad...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 13, 2021 — Sean Berg, president of Forcepoint‘s global governments and critical infrastructure business, has said combining a zero-trust architecture, continuous monitoring tools and behavioral analytics would allow agencies to authenticate users and prevent unauthorized network access, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursd...
Global investment firm Francisco Partners has announced the appointment of Manny Rivelo, a more than 30-year executive in security and information technology sectors, as the new CEO of Forcepoint in a string of executive appointments after it completed the acquisition of the cybersecurity platforms developer from Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RT...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 24, 2020 — Sean Berg, executive vice president and general manager of Forcepoint's global governments business, said analyzing how people interact with data will help organizations to implement a preemptive cybersecurity risk management approach, ExecutiveBiz reported April 16....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 3, 2019 — Sean Berg, senior vice president and general manager of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, believes government agencies should look into how their employees interact with data in order to advance security amid the increasing use of cloud and automation in the sector, Exec...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 2, 2019 — Forcepoint will perform work under a potential $23.5M blanket purchase agreement to provide cybersecurity and cross-domain technologies and services to the FBI, ExecutiveBiz reported March 21. The company said March 20 the five-year BPA covers the delivery of behavior-based software and hardware a...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 12, 2019 — Sean Berg, senior vice president and general manager of Forcepoint, has said the risk-adaptive approach employed by the Transportation Security Agency’s TSA PreCheck airport screening program exemplifies a way for federal agencies to address growing cyber threats, ExecutiveBiz reported F...
Eric Trexler, formerly executive director for civilian and national security programs at McAfee, has been named vice president of sales for global governments and critical infrastructure business at Raytheon-led (NYSE: RTN) cyber joint venture Forcepoint. Trexler will directly report to Sean Berg, senior VP and general manager of the business unit, ...
