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Intrusic Names James Mobley Chief Executive Officer; Board Member and Former Symantec, @stake and IBM Senior Executive Signs on to Help Intrusic Meet Widespread Demand to Stop Insider Security Threats.


BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Intrusic, Inc., a leading provider of solutions that protect large corporations and government organizations from internal IT security threats, today announced that James Mobley has joined the company as its chief executive officer. Mobley, already an Intrusic board member, brings a 25-year, distinguished career at top companies, including senior executive positions at Symantec, @stake, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Mobley, who will remain on Intrusic's board of directors, replaces Pete Privateer privateer

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, who departs the company for personal reasons.

"The security landscape is shifting dramatically, creating a tremendous opportunity for Intrusic. Its groundbreaking technology is among the best I've seen in 25 years, and will finally help companies easily get to the bottom of the complicated insider threat," said Mobley. "We wish Pete nothing but the best of luck and thank him for positively shaping the company as it ramped up to capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on`   

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 this opportunity."

Most recently, Mobley served as vice president of professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  in the Americas for Symantec Corporation. Prior to Symantec, Mobley was the president and 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 @stake, Inc., a digital security consulting and products company, which was acquired by Symantec in October 2004. Before @stake, Mobley honed his expertise in major technology companies, including IBM and Digital Equipment Corporation (acquired by Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees.

Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994).

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 and now owned by Hewlett Packard). While at IBM, he held key sales and services leadership positions and was nationally recognized as a Business Unit Executive. Mobley also held a number of key executive positions at Digital Equipment Corporation.

"Intrusic is at the forefront of more complicated and dangerous insider threats faced by companies with massively diverse and intertwined technology operations supporting employees, partners and customers," said Jonathan Bingham, chief strategist and co-founder, Intrusic. "James delivered tremendous, instant impact to our operations upon joining the board and offers the best leadership, experience and track record a fast-growing, emerging growth company could ask for in a new CEO."

About Intrusic

Intrusic is focused exclusively on protecting large organizations from internal information security threats. Intrusic's unique technology identifies compromises of enterprise data and the IT infrastructure, and assures regulatory and policy compliance by detecting external hackers who have obtained unauthorized access and trusted insiders who abuse their access privileges. Global 2000 companies who face ever-increasing threats from cyber (1) From "cybernetics," it is a prefix attached to everyday words to add a computer, electronic or online connotation. The term is similar to "virtual," but the latter is used more frequently. See virtual.  criminals and rogue employees rely on Intrusic for the last line of network defense. Established in 2001, Intrusic is led by an experienced team of information security experts and is backed by Northbridge Venture Partners, DFJ DFJ Dysfunkshun Junkshun (Austin, Texas band) , and DFJ New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. . For more information visit us at www.intrusic.com.
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