Cybereason Continues Rapid Expansion across EMEA Region

• Published Month : Friday, 08 May 2020 01:00 pm

Cybereason Hires Cybersecurity Industry Leader Rafik Hajem as EMEA Vice President of Strategic Markets

Cybereason, a provider of endpoint protection, announced record growth in the EMEA region with new customers, partners and explosive revenue. Over the past 12 months, the company's revenue has more than doubled in the region, making it the fastest growing cybersecurity company in EMEA. To further grow the company's business in the region, Cybereason also announced the hiring of Rafik Hajem as Vice President of Strategic Markets.

Cybereason offers endpoint prevention, detection and response and active monitoring, which has recently been recognized as the top-ranked current offering in the recently published "The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Detection & Response, Q1 2020." The Cybereason cloud-based endpoint protection (EPP) platform delivers multi-layered endpoint prevention by leveraging signature and signatureless techniques to prevent known and unknown threats in conjunction with behavioral and deception techniques to prevent ransomware and fileless attacks.

The Cybereason platform delivers a ratio of one analyst to 150,000 endpoints, compared with the industry benchmark of one analyst to 20,000 endpoints, making Cybereason the highest-performing EPP offering on the market today.

Rafik Hajem joins Cybereason as a highly respected cybersecurity veteran with more than 25 years of industry experience. In his new role, Hajem is responsible for formulating and executing the company's EMEA go-to-market strategy, including recruiting and mentoring local sales and technical teams, expanding the channel ecosystem in target markets, and building the company's brand awareness. During his career he held senior leadership positions at BitDefender, AccessData, Guidance Software, McAfee, Websense, Tripwire and Trend Micro.

"We are thrilled Rafik joined Cybereason to help drive further expansion of Cybereason in EMEA, one of the fastest growing markets for our award-winning Cyber Defense Platform. Our future-proof technology protects some of EMEA's largest brands from evolving threats. Together with our local partners, we help our customers find and eliminate sophisticated breaches faster than any other platform in the world," said Lior Div, CEO and co-founder, Cybereason.

In addition to its market leadership in the UK, France, Africa and the DACH regions (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), the company has expanded its footprint in other countries including Norway, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark, Spain and Italy.