Dean Hickman-Smith

ConSentry Networks Organizations today are grappling with how to regain control over their LANs. The dynamic application landscape, changing user population, proliferation of headless devices, embrace of digital storage of intellectual property - not to mention the scarcity of IT resources to manage it all - have tremendously complicated the task of controlling what users can do on the LAN. IT needs intelligent control to take back their LANs. A true understanding of users and devices, along with full knowledge of applications at Layer 7, is essential to regaining control. ConSentry's intelligent control enables IT to efficiently support NAC, ensure application performance, apply role-based controls to users, accelerate troubleshooting, and achieve compliance. These IT tasks, in turn, enable the business to benefit from increased employee productivity, improved asset protection, and operational efficiency. ConSentry Networks is leading the delivery of intelligent control. Customers around the globe have adopted their intelligent control, enabling them to capitalize on today’s new business practices including using contractors, outsourcing and offshoring, and more rapidly establishing working partnerships. ConSentry Networks, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Milpitas, California. The company has received funding from Accel Partners, DAG Ventures, INVESCO Private Capital, and Translink Capital.

Proofpoint, Inc. engages in provision of security-as-a-service that enables large and mid-sized organizations worldwide to defend, protect, archive and govern their most sensitive data. The firm's security and compliance platform comprises of an integrated suite of threat protection, information protection, and brand protection solutions. Its solutions also includes email protection, advanced threat protection, email authentication, data loss prevention, SaaS application protection, response orchestration and automation, digital risk, web browser isolation, email encryption, archiving, eDiscovery, supervision, secure communication, phishing simulation and security awareness computer-based training. The company was founded by Eric Hahn in May 2002 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

NetScreen Technologies, Inc. develops network security and access solutions for enterprises & carriers. It provides multiple layers of network and application-level protection for firewall, virtual private networks and e-business web sites. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

vArmour, Inc. provides software defined security solutions. Its data center security solution offers distributed sensors and enforcement points in a single logical system that scales horizontally, delivering security with simple operations. The company was founded by Michael Shieh and Jia-Jyi Roger Lian in January 2011 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.