Key Products

SOC-AS-A-SERVICE

Standard security controls like firewalls, anti-virus and IAM are essential, but aren’t 100% effective or reliable. Cysiv SOC-as-a-Service complements these, and helps further reduce the risk of a damaging data breach or service disruption, while ensuring compliance.

Cysiv Command is their massively scalable, modern SOC platform. It is a next-gen SIEM that addresses the limitations and frustrations associated with traditional SIEMs and other products typically used in a SOC.

Key Executives

Partha Panda, CEO & Co-Founder

Partha Panda brings more than 20 years of experience in the IT and cybersecurity industry. Over the past decade, he has held a broad range of leadership roles at Trend Micro including partner (Trend Forward Capital), SVP of strategy and corporate development, VP of business development and global alliances, and VP of global channels.

Prior to that, he had leadership roles at Third Brigade (acquired by Trend Micro), Entrust, Encommerce (acquired by Entrust) and CMC Ltd. Partha holds an MBA degree from the Robert Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from Sambalpur University, and the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation.

Justin Foster, CTO & Co-Founder

Justin Foster leads the platform and technology teams at Cysiv, bringing 20 years of experience in information security, including server security, cloud security, security analytics, and encryption. Previously, he had been responsible for leading cloud security sales and marketing for Trend Micro and spearheading product management for the leading hybrid cloud product line, Trend Micro™ Deep Security™.

Prior to that, he was a software architect at Third Brigade (acquired by Trend Micro). Justin is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds an Advanced Executive Certificate in General Management from the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, a Marketing Strategy Certificate from Cornell, and PMC-III and CCSK certifications.

David Roth, Chief Operations Officer

David Roth brings more than 30 years of experience in the IT and cybersecurity industry. Over the past decade, he has held a broad range of leadership roles at Trend Micro where he was vice president in both the sales organization as well as global alliances.

Prior to that, David held leadership roles at AppFirst (now ScienceLogic), Trigence (now VirtaMove), Consera (now HP), Stratis Group (Now Dell/EMC) and PCSI (now Ness). Before his 20 years as a serial entrepreneur David held a range of management positions at IBM/NYNEX in the late 1980’s and Microsoft in the early 1990’s. David holds a Bachelor degree from the University of Southern California.

Kathleen Thomas, CFO

Kathleen Thomas brings more than 15 years of experience developing and managing highly functional and progressive financial organizations in the Semiconductor and Cybersecurity industries. As Cysiv CFO, Kathleen partners with the executive team and investors to increase the business’s overall value, provide financial and accounting leadership and contribute to the strategic direction of the company by providing sound strategic advice and ensuring company-wide financial execution.

Prior to joining Cysiv, she held leadership roles at high growth companies including Zimperium (a leader in mobile threat defense) and DeviceFidelity (acquired by Square Technologies). Kathleen holds an MBA degree from the University of Texas, a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from St. Edward’s University, and is working toward her AWS Solutions Architect Certification. Kathleen’s accomplishments have been recognized by The Software Report, who identified her in their The Top 25 Women Leaders in Cybersecurity of 2021.

Keith Foster, Chief People Officer

Keith Foster is responsible for driving the people strategy and culture at Cysiv, and for ensuring the company continues to attract, engage and develop the best talent as it expands globally. With over 17 years of experience in technology and cybersecurity, Keith is passionate about shaping corporate cultures and strategic initiatives that help people, teams, and companies unlock potential to achieve success. Most recently, Keith was a Partner at Trend Forward Capital, and previously he held a range of senior people and HR roles at Trend Micro supporting regional (Europe) and global (product and field operations) teams. He also held HR roles at Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis Group, and CHEP.

Keith has a Master’s Degree from Rollins College, a Bachelor’s Degree from Hamilton College, and is a graduate of the Queens Executive Program – Smith School of Business..

Toby Ryan, Chief Data Scientist

Toby is a former IR / Intel analyst, and Blue Team leader within industry and the US Government. Toby drives the strategy, vision and implementation of cybersecurity-specific data science and behavioral analytics, and leads the Data Science, Data Engineering, and Detection Engineering teams at Cysiv. His passions are Purple Teaming, Detection Science, Windows logging, pragmatic ML, and context-aware AI.

Previously, Toby was the VP of Analytics Engineering at Forecepoint, and the head of their Behavioral Analytics Center of Excellence. Prior to that, Toby held roles at Trend Micro, Emerson Electric, US Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and was a US Army Officer. Toby holds a BS with Honors in Spatial Information Science & Engineering from the University of Maine.

Customer insights

“Cysiv is an integral extension of our team, providing us with collaborative and highly responsive 24/7 threat monitoring, and security management services.” – Scott Moser, SVP, Chief Information Security Officer, Sabre Corporation

 

“Cysiv gives us, and our Fortune-100 and other enterprise customers, the confidence that our SaaS Email Creation Platform and our business are protected by world-class security. This allows us to focus more resources on further enhancing our platform, providing our customers more value, and growing the company.” – Pat Proulx, CTO, Knak

 

“Cysiv’s proprietary, data science-driven security operations and analytics platform is incredibly robust, and enables enterprises and MSSPs to better monitor and manage cyber risk, at scale, and without relying on a complicated patchwork of tools.” – Alberto Yépez, Co-founder and Managing Director at ForgePoint Capital

 

“This collaboration has significantly improved our detection and incident response capabilities for both cloud and on-premise resources. It has also helped us meet some of the industry-driven requirements from a security point of view and a compliance perspective.” – NAJMA Sultana, CISO of Veem

 

“Cysiv’s approach to delivering modern SOC-as-a-service – combining a data science- and automation-driven nextgen SIEM platform, with a strong collaborative working relationship, and predictable pricing model – is refreshing and unique.” – Dagmar Ostermann-HELD Director Information Security

 

“The work conducted over the past years has resulted in a level of managed risk which is viewed favorably by auditors, compliance teams and meets the fast pace of our ever-growing digital banking needs.” – Dareen Shaheen, Head of Information Security Department Subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo Grou

 

“We needed a strong, experienced and trustworthy SOC implementation partner for this strategic security initiative, and Cysiv delivered.” – Ahmed Barakat, CISO

 

“Cysiv is a great SOC-as-a-service security partner. Their extensive knowledge of our security software has been fantastic. We had a lot of companies approach us who said they were familiar with our security software but left us with hours of walk-through calls that led to nowhere and poor or costly configuration. Cysiv had the knowledge to hit the ground running and get us set up and configured to what we needed.” – Casey Webb, Cyber Security Specialist, Salem Media

 

“Cysiv SOC-as-a-Service has given us greater visibility into our overall security posture and enabled us to better manage cyber risk. The technology and reporting has helped build our ability to see the threats against our business, and see how well we are able to defend against them.” – Mervin Naidoo, Chief Information Officer

 

“Cysiv has proven to be very engaged, highly responsive, and extremely knowledgeable in the most critical of security risks. With Cysiv, I fully trust that our security incidents are being handled with the attention and care required.” – Ben Harvey, Director of IT Security & Privacy, Club Car

 

“Cysiv team members are responsive and consistently deliver on the challenges presented by the changing security landscape.” – Sawan Gogna, Think Research Corporation, VP of IT Operations