eIQnetworks(R), Inc., a security and compliance management company, announced the addition of Mike Rothman to its management team. Rothman joins in the newly created senior vice president of strategy and chief marketing officer role.

Rothman comes to eIQnetworks with almost 20 years of industry experience. Starting his career as a programmer and a networking consultant, Rothman was a vice president at META Group (now Gartner, Inc.) spearheading the firm’s initial foray into information security research. He left META in 1998 to found SHYM Technology, a pioneer in the PKI software market and later held vice president of marketing roles at CipherTrust and TruSecure, providing experience in marketing, business development and channel operations for both product and services companies.

In 2006, Rothman founded independent research firm Security Incite to help customers wade through the morass of noise and confusion that marks a security professional’s existence. He published the Pragmatic CSO book and methodology, the Security Incite blog and Daily Incite newsletter. He provided an unvarnished opinion of what security professionals needed to worry about and presented a program to help security professionals position security within the context of their business.

“At Security Incite, I did a tremendous amount of research into the security and compliance management space. I found customers were not satisfied with the current set of offerings because they were too hard to use and didn’t provide a broad enough perspective on what was happening in their environments.” said Mike Rothman, eIQnetworks’ new senior vice president of strategy and chief marketing officer. “eIQnetworks is redefining what security professionals expect from a security and compliance management platform. Managing security operations and automating compliance efforts are issues every company needs to solve and to be able to work with Jim, Vijay and the rest of the eIQ team is too good an opportunity to pass up.”

Editor's note: In keeping with Tekrati editorial policies, I am archiving Security Incite from the firms, blogs and Analyst Profiles directories. Best wishes Mike! -- Barbara

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