6 Sep 2012
Geoff will be responsible for accelerating innovation for SecureVue, unified situational awarness solution

eIQnetworks, Inc., the leading provider of simplified security and compliance solutions, recently announced that Geoff Charron has been named as the company’s senior vice president, engineering. Along with expanding the world-class engineering organization at eIQnetworks, Geoff will be responsible for accelerating innovation across eIQ’s unified situational awareness solution, SecureVue®, as well as introducing new innovative products that are easy to deploy and simple to use.

“With the dynamic and advanced nature of today’s cyber threats and increasing compliance regulations, the opportunity and potential for eIQ’s unified situational awareness solutions are enormous,” commented Geoff Charron, SVP, engineering at eIQnetworks. “I have delivered multiple security products over the past 15 years and I have seen what works and what doesn’t work in the IT security industry. eIQ’s straightforward, cost-effective and simplified approach to security and compliance gets the job done for customers better than anyone. I look forward to continuing and increasing the velocity of product innovation.”

Geoff has more than 20 years of enterprise software engineering and management experience at both large and small vendors. As vice president of engineering, he  has managed large global engineering teams and delivered market leading security software products for privileged identity management, fine grained access control and web access management at Gradient Technologies, Netegrity (acquired by Computer Associates), BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle), Computer Associates (CA) and BeyondTrust.

“We are thrilled to have Geoff join our team,” commented Vijay Basani, president and CEO, eIQnetworks. “Geoff’s proven track record of managing global engineering teams and delivering numerous best-in-class security products will be invaluable to us in our quest to help customers address complex cyber security and compliance challenges with simple and easy to deploy solutions.”