Ben Carr is an established manager in the field of cyber security and risk management
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, has appointed Ben Carr as its new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Ben is responsible for providing cybersecurity strategy and advice to clients, chairing the CIO/CISO Interchange, the non-profit organization formed by Qualys in partnership with the Cloud Security Alliance, while coordinating internal efforts to reduce enterprise risk and security exposure, including ensuring global compliance.
Commenting on his new role, Ben said: "It's a pleasure and honor for me to join the Qualys family, who I've gotten to know on many occasions over the years, both as a customer and competitor, and I can attest to Qualys' unique ability to innovate. I've seen Qualys enhance its vulnerability management solution into a highly scalable cloud platform, enabling businesses of all sizes to gain 360-degree visibility to protect the security of digital transformation projects by implementing a single integrated cloud platform, also available as a private cloud. I look forward to providing Qualys customers with the knowledge acquired in my long journey as a CISO and helping them improve security and compliance, simplifying workflows, prioritizing threats, automating responses and reducing costs, thanks to the revolutionary App. VMDR® (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) by Qualys and the EDR (Endpoint Detection and Incidence Response) solution expected soon. Now that the security industry has finally decided to fully embrace cloud technologies, Qualys is well positioned to grow and succeed and I'm happy to be part of the team.”
"Ben has been one of our customers since 2008, and as a member of the Qualys Customer Advisory Board, he has a proven track record of providing guidance that has significantly contributed to our growth over the years. He is a technology expert with unrivaled knowledge of managing long-term cybersecurity for multinational corporations facing millions of new vulnerabilities. We are pleased to welcome Ben to our team," he said. Philippe Courtot, President and CEO of Qualys. “Ben's extensive knowledge of the IT and security industry, his valuable customer perspective, including his familiarity with Qualys solutions, will be instrumental in continuing to expand the Qualys Cloud Platform and accelerate business growth.”
Ben is an accomplished cybersecurity and risk management leader with over 25 years of experience implementing long-term security strategies. Ben was most recently the CISO at Aristocrat, a leading gaming company, and before that held Executive Leader roles at Cyberbit and Tenable. From 2012 to 2016, he was Senior Director of Global Information Security for Visa, where he developed and led Visa's Attack Surface Management team globally. Before that, he headed all security programs in Nokia's IT department, as Global Head of IT Security.
