NetWitness(R) Appoints Vice President of Federal Sales

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Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:00am EDT

HERNDON, Va., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- NetWitness Corporation, the leading
provider of next generation network monitoring and threat analysis solutions,
today announced the appointment of Jaci Vilardo as Vice President of Federal
Sales.  This appointment strengthens NetWitness' commitment to its rapidly
growing number of federal customers, currently representing the company's
largest customer base. 

Ms. Vilardo is an experienced professional with an outstanding sales and sales
management track record in the public sector information security market.  As
VP of Federal Sales, she will lead an aggressive expansion of NetWitness'
federal activities that includes doubling the size of the company's dedicated
U.S. Government sales team and sales engineers by the end of 2009.   In her
new role, she will also ensure that NetWitness continues to align with the
complex security needs of customer communities throughout the federal
government. 

"We are thrilled to appoint Jaci as our Vice President of Federal Sales.  She
has a strong track record putting the government's mission first," said Amit
Yoran, CEO of NetWitness. "NetWitness has experienced explosive growth in our
federal cyber security business.  I can think of no better person to support
our government partners and assure our joint success than Jaci."  

Ms. Vilardo joined NetWitness in February of 2007 as the Regional Sales
Manager of the Federal Civilian Accounts.  During her tenure at NetWitness,
she has consistently worked with federal customers to apply NetWitness
solutions in support of Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) requirements, unique
advanced persistent threats faced by many agencies and addressing insider
threat and data leakage concerns - driving many success stories across the
federal government. 

Ms. Vilardo has worked for 13 years supporting the IT security requirements of
the public sector, holding key sales and sales management positions at Trident
Data Systems, RipTech and Symantec.  Prior to joining NetWitness, Ms. Vilardo
successfully led a team of sales professionals at Symantec supporting public
and commercial sector security service offerings.

About NetWitness Corporation
NetWitness(R) Corporation provides patented and award winning, next generation
security solutions that help government and private organizations discover,
prioritize and remediate complex IT risks.  NetWitness solutions concurrently
solve a wide variety of information security problems including: advanced
persistent threat management; sensitive data discovery and advanced data
leakage detection; malware activity discovery; insider threat management;
policy and controls verification and e-discovery.  Originally developed for
the US Intelligence Community, NetWitness has evolved to provide enterprises
around the world with breakthrough methods of network content analysis and
host-based risk discovery and prioritization.  NetWitness customers include
Defense, National Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies, Top US and
European Banks, Critical Infrastructure, and Global 1000 organizations.
NetWitness has offices in the U.S. and the U.K. and partners throughout North
and South America Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.  

To download the freeware version of NetWitness Investigator, visit
http://download.netwitness.com.  For more information about securing your
entire organization with NetWitness NextGen(TM), contact:
sales@netwitness.com. Twitter handle: NetWitness 

SOURCE  NetWitness Corporation

Steve Ward of NetWitness, +1-703-466-0278, pr@netwitness.com
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