WASHINGTON, DC— June 10, 2021 — The Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA) today announced the election of Samantha Madrid, Vice President of Security Business and Strategy at Juniper Networks, to the organization’s board of directors. Juniper Networks joins Charter member Board Directors Gil Shwed, Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd; Matt Watchinski, Cisco; Ken Xie, Fortinet; Lee Klarich, Palo Alto Networks, along with elected Affiliate members John Petrie, NTT Ltd; Corey Thomas, Rapid7; and Joe Levy, Sophos, to drive CTA’s strategic vision to improve the cybersecurity of the global digital ecosystem by enabling cyber threat intelligence sharing among the alliance’s membership community.
“I am pleased to welcome Samantha Madrid to the CTA Board of Directors,” said Michael Daniel, President and CEO of the CTA. “As a long-time cybersecurity practitioner, she will bring a wealth of experience to the Board as well as providing a different perspective on the issues facing CTA. I am certain Samantha will make CTA’s Board even stronger and I am looking forward to working with her.”
“I am honored to be joining the board of the Cyber Threat Alliance. I have always had tremendous respect for the mission of the CTA and the work that they do to advance infrastructure security globally,” said Samantha Madrid, Vice President of Security Business and Strategy at Juniper Networks. “I am looking forward to working closely with the board to further strengthen the security posture of organizations through the CTA activities and their members.”
Samantha has over twenty years of experience in the enterprise business-to-business security market in roles spanning from product management to marketing to sales engineering. She previously served as the Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for E8 Security (acquired by VMware). Prior to that, she held leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, Forcepoint, Inc. (formerly Websense), and Cisco (via IronPort). Samantha studied Political Science at San Jose State University.
About the Cyber Threat Alliance
CTA was founded by Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., Cisco, Fortinet, McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, and Symantec. Membership also includes ADT CAPS Infosec, Alien Labs, Anomali, Avast, Dragos, Ericom Software, Juniper Networks, K7 Computing, Morphisec, NEC Corporation, NETSCOUT, NTT Security, OneFirewall, Panda Security, Radware, Rapid7, ReversingLabs, Saint Security, Scitum, SecureBrain, SecurityScorecard, SonicWall, Sophos, TEHTRIS, Telefónica’s ElevenPaths, Verizon, and VMware. CTA is the industry’s first formally organized group of cybersecurity practitioners that work together in good faith to share threat information and improve global defenses against advanced cyber adversaries. CTA’s mission is to facilitate the sharing of actionable intelligence and situational awareness about sophisticated cyber threats to improve its members’ cyber defenses, more effectively disrupt malicious cyber actors around the world and raise the level of cybersecurity throughout the Internet and cyberspace. The alliance is continuing to grow on a global basis, enriching both the quantity and quality of the information that is being shared across the platform. CTA is actively recruiting additional regional players to enhance information sharing to enable a more secure future for all. For more information about CTA, please visit: https://www.cyberthreatalliance.org/
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