October 6, 2010 - Tufin Technologies, the
market leading provider of Security Lifecycle Management solutions,
today announced Robert Civil as Regional Director UK and Ireland,
who brings with him over 15 years of IT security leadership and
sales experience. Robert has previously held senior positions at
Check Point, Sygate, Symantec and most recently at SecureWorks and
is adept at driving the growth of company revenues and improving
team performance.
Robert arrives at time when Tufin has seen a huge peak in
interest for their latest range of products, namely for
SecureTrackTM and SecureChangeTM Workflow which help security teams
manage change, minimize risks and dramatically reduce manual,
repetitive tasks through automation of their networks. Tufin
expanded their product range from firewalls to support other
devices such as routers and switches on the network, which resulted
in a bumper year in 2009 when revenues grew by 45%. Driven by
strong regulatory requirements, Tufin has continued to grow
throughout 2010 with great impetus across Europe, with new
partnerships in Germany, France, Italy and Spain and into Eastern
Europe. Tufin has also recently opened a new office in Singapore.
These expansion plans align with its high customer satisfaction
ratings, market leading position and growing stature as the thought
and technology leader of the rapidly emerging Security Lifecycle
Management market.
"Recruiting Robert has been a great coupe for us, with many of
the Tufin team having had a chance to work with him back in the
Check Point days where he shone out and really proved himself in
the security space. He has an exceptional pedigree, with tremendous
experience and contacts and knows how to cultivate successful
relationships," said Ruvi Kitov, CEO of Tufin Technologies. "The UK
is a lucrative market for us, and having a regional expert such as
Robert is essential to our ongoing success and market leadership.
We are expanding our reach in the UK with a stronger, wider partner
program and are delighted to add such a top notch player to our
team who we know will be able to really cement many of the ongoing
relationships that we have already forged."
"Coming to Tufin has been a very easy choice for me, as there is
a real demand for their products," said Civil. "It does what it
says on the tin and meets the real pain points of IT professionals
who are often manually dogged down by having to track rule changes
to firewalls and networks. This product automates and analyses
these changes and is a dream product to demonstrate as people can
immediately see its gains in terms of ease of use, hours of savings
in time and money as well as meeting the requirements of the
dreaded audit and regulatory compliance forced on most businesses
these days."
Apart from building their customer base up to 350 in 2009 to
over 550 customers worldwide in 2010, they have recently increased
their channel partners from 110 to 160. Additionally, the Company
has been shortlisted for numerous awards including the SC Magazine
Award, the Network Computing Awards and have also won the Stevie
Business award for innovation.
