New CEO appointed at NetWitness: Ken Naumann

Ken Naumann has been appointed as the new CEO of NetWitness, an RSA® Group Business and a global provider of cybersecurity technology and incident response services.

 “NetWitness has long prided itself on forging the frontier of extended detection and response capabilities, which is becoming increasingly universal amid an industry renaissance that prioritizes investment in threat detection,” said Rohit Ghai, CEO of RSA Group. “With decades of experience in enterprise tech and cybersecurity, Ken brings the right mix of growth, strategy and diligence to take NetWitness to the next level.”

Naumann joins NetWitness from AccessData, a firm that offers technology for digital forensic investigations, where he oversaw the expansion of the business as CEO. Before it was eventually acquired by Exterro, AccessData was one of the world leaders in data forensics under his direction and leadership. In the course of his 25-year career, Naumann has held the position of CEO for a variety of venture-backed, private-equity, and publicly traded businesses with a primary focus on social media compliance. In the vulnerability assessment and incident response sectors, Naumann has previously held executive leadership positions at rapidly expanding businesses including Guidance Software, which is now a part of OpenText, and BindView, which Symantec later bought. 

“NetWitness has served the global infosec community for decades, reaching large complex enterprises and government agencies. The company’s focus has been to strengthen network, endpoint and log analytics in any computing environment,” said Naumann. “I’m excited to be part of this journey and innovating our solutions to become more intelligent, automated and accessible in the cloud.”

NetWitness started as a government-sponsored research project to examine network packets for cyberthreats and develop tools to detect and respond to them. Since then, technology has evolved and innovated to combat today’s most complex attacks. NetWitness now includes fully integrated network, log, endpoint, and IoT detection and response components. NetWitness XDR integrates directly with the world’s most critical and widely deployed tools, as well as many specialized and industry-specific solutions, thanks to its long history and global footprint.

Naumann’s appointment as CEO comes on the heels of the release of NetWitness Platform XDR 12, the industry’s most comprehensive extended detection and response solution.