NetWitness announces Karim Abillama to oversee International Presales team

NetWitness announced Karim Abillama, a network and security professional, to oversee International Presales team. Mr. Abillama will be in charge of cybersecurity specialists, trusted advisors, and engineers across the EMEA and APJ regions, as well as collaborating with various corporate divisions to drive the NetWitness Platform’s adoption in international markets.

“I’m thrilled that Karim will be leading our international presales team and leveraging his extensive knowledge of the modern cybersecurity landscape to benefit our enterprise customers. Karim’s experience will be invaluable to enterprises in EMEA and APJ as they work to leverage the threat detection and response solutions at their disposal to mitigate threats wherever they are – whether in the cloud or on-premise, across IoT devices, netflow, logs, packets, endpoints or the network,” said Dave Govan, Chief Revenue Officer of NetWitness. “We live in a world where security threats are changing rapidly, and Karim will help ensure our customers are prepared to face those threats.”

Mr. Abillama has worked with RSA for nearly a decade, holding several leadership positions in Sales Engineering across the full RSA portfolio. He’s played a key role in pushing the NetWitness innovation agenda forward in areas including Internet of Things (IoT) security, user adoption, and expressing foreign market demands to the NetWitness product team.

He’s worked in the cybersecurity field for 15 years, assisting businesses with issues such as network and web application security, threat detection and response, and identity and access management. Mr. Abillama graduated from Saint Joseph University in Lebanon with a Master’s degree in Network & Systems Security.

“My team and I will partner with organizations to address their cyber challenges, and extend the value of the NetWitness Platform to arm security teams with a robust solution for combatting threats,” says Mr. Abillama. “Equally, we will listen and strengthen ties with customers and partners, to better address current and future needs together. NetWitness is growing and these are exciting times.”