BeyondTrust Announces European Expansion.Van Hugte Joins as Vice President of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. PORTSMOUTH, NH and AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- BeyondTrust Corporation, the leading provider of Enterprise Least Privilege A basic principle in information security that holds that entities (people, processes, devices) should be assigned the fewest privileges consistent with their assigned duties and functions. Management solutions, today announced European expansion plans and a new addition to its executive team. Leading BeyondTrust's European operations, Paul van Hugte is an experienced leader with a proven track record of successfully expanding European markets for security software companies. "BeyondTrust continues to broaden its leadership team to meet the growing needs of its global enterprise customers and partners," said John Moyer, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BeyondTrust. "Our European expansion is the result of customer and systems integration partner demand and is a sign of the growing adoption of the security best practice of Least Privilege, made possible by BeyondTrust Privilege Manager, the first product to enable Least Privilege in Windows environments (1) (upper case "W") Refers to computers running under a Microsoft Windows operating system. (2) (lower case "w") Also called a "windowing environment," it refers to any software that provides multiple windows on screen such as Windows, Mac, Motif and X Window. . We are thrilled to have someone with van Hugte's talent and experience to help lead this phase of our operations." Van Hugte joins BeyondTrust as vice president of EMEA, with 19 years in the IT business and 15 years of management experience leading start-ups, groups, divisions and geographical regions for companies such as A-Line technologies, World Online, BT Syntegra and Network Associates. Most relevant, is van Hugte's recent position of vice president of McAfee Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, Northern, Southern and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe. . "I am excited to be part of this innovative company and to lead its European efforts," said van Hugte. Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Van Hugte will oversee BeyondTrust's sales to meet the overwhelming demand for BeyondTrust Privilege Manager in Europe, where recent wins include financial and petrochemical concerns in excess of 20,000 seats. Van Hugte is developing the BeyondTrust business with direct sales and a network of system integrators, value added resellers See VAR. (company) value added reseller - (VAR, or "value added retailer") A company which sells something (e.g. computers) made by another company (an OEM) with extra components added (e.g. specialist software). and distributors. About BeyondTrust BeyondTrust Privilege Manager was the first product to allow administrators to assign permissions to applications and tasks, enabling the security best practice of Least Privilege in Windows environments. BeyondTrust Privilege Manager has won many prestigious awards, including "Excellence in Management of Least Privilege - Customer Trust 2006" (Info Security Products Guide), "Best of TechEd teched adj. Variant of tetched. 2006 - Security Finalist" (Windows IT Pro/SQL Server Magazine) and "Best Product of 2005 - Policy Management" (MSD (MicroSoft Diagnostics) A utility that accompanied Windows 3.1 and DOS 6 that reported on the internal configuration of the PC. A variety of information on disks, video, drivers, IRQs and port addresses was provided. 2D People's Choice Security Award). For more information, visit www.beyondtrust.com. |
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