New deployment middle opening in Dallas, Texas will pace up supply occasions of Darktrace {hardware} for U.S.-based prospects. Former GoPro govt, Eve Saltman, joins as Chief Authorized Officer and former CRO at Entersekt, Marty Overman, joins as Government Vice President, Gross sales, Americas.
Darktrace, a world chief in AI for cybersecurity, introduced plans for a brand new 7,555-square-foot deployment middle in Dallas, Texas as a part of an ongoing growth effort for the enterprise within the U.S. that features extra U.S.-based appointments to Darktrace’s govt workforce and a sequence of latest and upgraded workplaces nationwide. The brand new deployment facility, set to be totally operational by September 2025, will considerably improve Darktrace’s potential to serve its increasing U.S. buyer base. Along with the deployment middle, Darktrace will open a brand new company workplace in Dallas.
Darktrace right now additionally declares the appointments of Eve Saltman as Chief Authorized Officer & Firm Secretary and Marty Overman as Government Vice President, Gross sales, Americas to the Darktrace Government Committee. These appointments will assist Darktrace attain and serve much more organizations within the U.S. as they appear to fight escalating cyber threats. In 2024, the common price of a U.S. information breach reached $9.4 million—almost double the worldwide common.[1]
“The U.S. is the world’s largest cybersecurity market and Darktrace is uniquely positioned to assist organizations defend themselves in opposition to novel cyberattacks, so we see monumental alternative for our enterprise to develop its market share within the U.S. and throughout the Americas,” mentioned Jill Popelka, CEO of Darktrace.
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“Along with these new senior hires and expanded services within the U.S., we’re additionally making strategic investments to deepen {our relationships} with the main channel resellers, to reinforce our buyer expertise, to help Federal prospects with their more and more advanced cybersecurity wants, and to construct our model consciousness on this vital marketplace for cybersecurity.
I’m delighted to welcome Eve and Marty to our Government workforce. Eve brings deep expertise main world authorized and industrial groups and serving to to information companies on their scaling journey. Marty has an intensive background main high-performing gross sales groups for a few of the most fun firms in cybersecurity. We’re lucky to have leaders of this caliber be part of our Government workforce at such a vital time for our enterprise.”
“Texas continues to show that whenever you create a business-friendly atmosphere, the most effective and brightest firms will come,” mentioned U.S. Congressman Jake Ellzey for Texas’s sixth Congressional District, the place the brand new Darktrace deployment middle shall be primarily based. “Darktrace increasing in Farmers Department is yet one more instance displaying that Texas is open for enterprise and the world is taking discover. In a time when cyberattacks have gotten extra frequent and complicated, firms like Darktrace, who’re investing in not simply stopping these assaults but additionally utilizing AI to anticipate them, are extra essential than ever. We’re proud to have them right here in our yard. Welcome to Texas.”
Sooner U.S. deployment for industrial and authorities prospects
Darktrace protects a buyer’s community, cloud, e-mail or operational know-how environments, primarily based on every buyer’s distinctive necessities. Its trade main AI cybersecurity options could be deployed both by way of cloud or bodily home equipment. As organizations more and more embrace hybrid environments with each on-premises and cloud deployments, demand for bodily home equipment stays excessive. The brand new Dallas deployment middle can have the capability to ship as much as 40,000 home equipment a 12 months, positioning Darktrace for future progress. The ability can be anticipated to halve the supply time of Darktrace’s home equipment for U.S. prospects.
Along with serving Darktrace’s non-public sector shoppers, the middle will present devoted deployment and bodily safety capabilities to help the compliance necessities of Darktrace Federal prospects, the corporate’s Arlington, Virginia-based affiliate serving U.S. Federal authorities businesses. Assembly stringent ISO 27001, NIST, and CMMC requirements, the ability additionally considerably will increase storage and manufacturing capability for Commerce Agreements Act-compliant {hardware}, enabling Darktrace Federal to successfully deal with the rising demand from the U.S. Federal authorities amid an more and more advanced menace panorama. The latest attainment of FedRAMP® Excessive authorization additional underscores Darktrace Federal’s ongoing dedication to delivering safe, AI-powered cybersecurity options, whether or not deployed on-premises or within the cloud.
Appointment of latest U.S.-based govt management
Alongside increasing its U.S. footprint, Darktrace can be welcoming two U.S.-based leaders to its govt workforce.
Eve Saltman joins Darktrace as Chief Authorized Officer & Firm Secretary from GoPro, Inc., the place she served as Senior Vice President, Company and Enterprise Growth, Chief Authorized Officer, and Secretary. With deep experience from management roles at distinguished know-how companies together with Asana and Siebel Programs (acquired by Oracle), Saltman brings deep expertise of constructing authorized, industrial and compliance methods that help quick rising worldwide companies in advanced industries. Her remit will embody all industrial and company authorized issues, compliance, privateness, threat and governance throughout the enterprise.
Marty Overman will lead Darktrace’s Americas gross sales workforce, constructing and executing on the corporate’s bold go-to-market plans for the area. She joins from Entersekt, a number one supplier of safe buyer authentication and digital fraud prevention options, the place she has been Chief Income Officer, overseeing the worldwide gross sales workforce and main the corporate’s go-to-market technique. Overman brings intensive cybersecurity expertise constructed from gross sales management positions at McAfee, Palo Alto Networks, and Imperva.
Commenting on her appointment, Saltman mentioned, “I’m thrilled to hitch Darktrace at a pivotal second for the corporate and I look ahead to contributing my expertise to serving to Darktrace scale within the U.S. and globally. As cyber threats develop extra subtle, Darktrace’s distinctive method is extra important than ever. I’m excited to work with Jill and your complete Darktrace workforce to proceed rising Darktrace’s place as a frontrunner in AI-driven cybersecurity.”
Commenting on her appointment, Overman mentioned, “Darktrace has an unbelievable product set masking the areas the place organizations are most weak to cyberattack, together with community, e-mail, cloud and operational know-how. I can see the super alternatives to carry this market-leading know-how to extra organizations throughout the Americas area and am trying ahead to becoming a member of this dynamic workforce.”
Nationwide workplace improve
Along with the brand new deployment middle, Darktrace additionally plans to open a brand new company workplace in Dallas. This underscores Darktrace’s dedication to increasing its U.S. operations as a part of its long-term progress technique following the 2024 acquisition by Thoma Bravo.
Darktrace operates 12 workplaces throughout the U.S., with roughly 800 workers nationwide. Within the final reported full monetary 12 months (12 months ending 30 June 2024), the U.S. enterprise made up 35% of Darktrace’s annual revenues. The Dallas deployment middle and workplace are the newest investments for Darktrace within the U.S., constructing on workplace upgrades in Austin, Chicago, and the Washington, DC-area in latest months.
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