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Illumio, Inc., a Zero Trust Segmentation company, announced the appointment of Pete Wilson as Director of Channel Sales, EMEA. Based in the UK, Wilson will lead and scale Illumio’s channel and alliance operations in EMEA as it seeks to capitalise on the growing demand for Zero Trust and Microsegmentation.  Wilson brings over 20 years of experience in networking and security, gained at top technology companies, including RSA and SailPoint. Before joining Illumio, he was Director of EMEA partnerships at Okta, where he led the growth of the Global Systems Integrators (GSI) community in Europe, doubling revenue Year-over-Year.  Prior to Okta, he worked at Auth0, where he built the EMEA partner channel from the ground up, significantly increasing revenue from hyperscalers alone in just two years.  Illumio’s partner-empowered ecosystem Wilson’s primary focus will be solidifying Illumio’s partner-empowered ecosystem Wilson’s primary focus will be solidifying Illumio’s partner-empowered ecosystem and diversifying its indirect go-to-market strategy across EMEA. He will report to Todd Palmer, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Sales and Alliances at Illumio.  Commenting on Wilson’s appointment, Todd Palmer said: "The channel is instrumental to everything that we do at Illumio and EMEA is one of our most important markets. Pete’s experience, vision, and tenacity make him the ideal leader to steer us through our next phase of growth as we seek to strengthen and refine our partner ecosystem across EMEA."  Zero Trust architecture Illumio provides a powerful solution for channel partners in a market with huge growth potential. Gartner® predicts that by 2026, 60% of enterprises working toward Zero Trust architecture will use more than one deployment form of micro-segmentation, which is up from less than 5% in 2023.  "It’s an exciting time to join Illumio. The micro-segmentation market is poised to explode, and Illumio is a clear pioneer in the field," says Pete Wilson, adding "The ransomware problem is not going away and together with our partners we have a huge opportunity to help organisations reduce risk and build resilience through Zero Trust Segmentation." Illumio’s continued investment Pete Wilson’s appointment follows continued channel success for Illumio. For the third consecutive year, Illumio was recognised by CRN with a prestigious 5-star ranking in its 2023 Partner Program Guide, highlighting Illumio’s continued investment in developing a best-in-class partner program to help organisations reduce risk, build resilience, and stop breaches from spreading. Illumio is hiring globally across all departments.

Attendees and media can register at isceast.com ISC East sponsored by the Security Industry Association (SIA), the largest security event in the Northeast United States, recently opened registration for the Nov. 19-20, 2014, conference. Attendees and media can register at isceast.com. More than 200 exhibitors and brands will attend the show, including a number of new faces — including ADI, as well as ScanSource and Ingram Micro, to name a few. The conference draws thousands of regional attendees including dealers, installers, IT and physical security systems integrators, consultants and specifiers, and end users of physical security. It continues to attract leading security professionals because of its targeted exhibition floor, which showcases the latest equipment and services to help increase business efficiencies and enhance security operations. “ISC East allows our company to send our local security professionals to a very reputable security show,” said Brent Franklin, President of systems integration firm Unlimited Technology, Inc. “It affords us the ability to meet with and see all the latest technological systems and equipment advances as well as meet with our representatives that attend. We bring and invite local customers as well. It is a very worthwhile event and those security professionals in the Northeast should take advantage of this wonderful opportunity.” “Each year, ISC East continues to do a good job promoting exhibits that focus on the latest technologies,” said Sal Conti, President, Global Systems Integrators, a security integrator based in New York. “I’m looking forward to seeing that again this year.” The SIA Education@ISC Program also returns this year and offers new content developed specially for attendees on the most current business trends, technologies and state requirement/codes. The full lineup will be released in September and is offered complimentary to all ISC East attendees. “We are thoroughly invested in making the ISC East experience better and more streamlined for our attendees,” said Ed Several, Senior Vice President, ISC Events. “We’ve designed this year’s conference to allow attendees to spend more time networking, engaging in valuable business discussions and seeing the future of the industry on the exhibit floor. We look forward to welcoming security decision makers from the Northeast region to experience the latest industry innovations and education.”

  Global Systems Integrators recommended Bosch Security Systems browser-based Access Easy Controller Like many businesses in major metropolitan areas, telx - a provider of Meet Me Room and Core Interconnection Facility solutions - leases space in a multi-tenant building that is home to more than 30 technology and enterprise companies.  This arrangement poses a security concern for telx, as it must protect customers' mission-critical Internet and telecommunications systems that reside at its facilities.  The success of its customers' businesses depends upon the safety and security of these systems. telx occupies two suites in one of the largest buildings in Manhattan, which spans 2.8 million square feet and a full square block.  Building management requires that tenant employees and visitors wear identification at all times and obtain proper clearance to enter the building.  Anyone attempting to enter the building beyond the lobby must carry a proprietary access card provided by building management.  While this level of security is sufficient for some building tenants, telx needed an extra layer of protection.  The company turned to Global Systems Integrators for a low-cost, convenient system that would ensure only authorized personnel can access its secure Meet Me Room and Core Interconnection Facility.  John DiMarco, Principal of Global Systems Integrators, recommended Bosch Security Systems' browser-based Access Easy Controller.  This solution allows telx to use the buildings' existing access cards and operate the access control system from any computer throughout the two facilities floors it leases. "Building management did not want to provide us with information about its HID cards.  While this may have presented a challenge for some access control products, the Access Easy Controller read the building's cards as unique data strings, enabling us to program the system to recognize them," said DiMarco.  The employees of telx only have to present one card to gain access to the building and to the secure rooms to which they have authorized right of entry - making the system simple to use for the employees.  "Because the system is browser-based, it is very easy to train the end user.  The time required for training telx was a fraction of what is normally required with other access control systems.  With the intuitive interface, the telx employees were adding users and managing schedules after minimal instruction," said DiMarco. telx can also generate reports showing who has entered or attempted to access its secure Meet Me Room facilities from any web browser.  "We must provide our customers with the greatest assurances that their communications equipment is protected," said Chan Boodram, Facilities Manager for telx's 111 8th Avenue site.  "This system gives us more control over access to our Meet Me Rooms, helping us better demonstrate the security of our facility."  "While this installation only secured one area for telx, we knew the company planned to add access control to another facility on a different floor of the building.  The system that we selected had to be able to handle this future expansion. By using a network-ready product, we'll be able to use telx's existing IP network and eliminate the need for additional wiring between the facilities.  This design will keep costs down for telx and add convenience by giving them one centralized access control interface for all of their facilities," explained DiMarco.