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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

SentinelOne names ex-BlackBerry A/NZ boss Jason Duerden as new regional director

Jason Duerden (SentinelOne)

Jason Duerden (SentinelOne)

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US-based endpoint cyber security dealer SentinelOne has appointed former BlackBerry Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) managing director Jason Duerden as its new A/NZ regional director. 

"We're excited to welcome Jason Duerden to SentinelOne as the regional director for Australia and New Zealand. Jason brings a decade of leadership, business management and technical acumen to SentinelOne, with area expertise within the cyber arena," the company said in a social media post.  

Duerden comes to the function after close to a 12 months with BlackBerry and basically three years with cyber protection seller Cylance, which BlackBerry bought in early 2019 for US$1.4 billion as a way to bulk up its own cyber standing, with Duerden coming throughout to the BlackBerry manufacturer consequently.  

Duerden turned into A/NZ nation manager for Cylance earlier than the acquisition and A/NZ regional director for the Cylance manufacturer beneath BlackBerry's possession, put up-acquisition, unless he turned into named BlackBerry A/NZ managing director in March 2020. earlier than Cylance, he dealt with enterprise earnings at Aquion for more than two years. 

"i'm absolutely overjoyed to announce that I even have joined SentinelOne," Duerden talked about in a social media put up on three can also. "After finishing my closing gig in December and taking an attractive 4-month destroy, it is apparent to me that the A/NZ market is buzzing again.  

"all the way through my evaluation section, it was outstanding to see the quantity of tremendous cool and innovative beginning-americalaunching into the A/NZ market," he delivered. 

Duerden noted he selected to work with SentinelOne on account of its standing within the endpoint safety and extended detection and response (XDR) protection platform segment. 

"now's SentinelOne's time," Duerden talked about. "The endpoint security market has been in a state of massive exchange for the last 10 years, with stalwart agencies disappearing and start-u.s.disrupting. The guarantees of AI [artificial intelligence] and ML [machine learning], the dependance of humans to power 'smarter' EDR [endpoint detection and response] options – the reality is a self-healing endpoint wasn't realised, in the past. 

"SentinelOne converges the EPP [endpoint protection platform] market into a single experience for our purchasers and companions. Having antivirus and EDR in a single agent and single console doesn't mean convergence, convergence capacity the options ability to prevent, discover, respond, remediate, improve/rollback and examine autonomously with no need to depend upon a human. 

"SentinelOne is a know-how platform that assists people, rather than a technology platform that is pushed through humans," he observed.  

Duerden's appointment follows scorching on the heels of the dealer's appointment of Joe McPhillips, former Asia Pacific channel chief for Symantec and Cylance, as its director of channel income for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ).

Sydney-primarily based McPhillips had spent greater than 25 years within the IT trade, working greater than half of it in the cyber protection field, ahead of the appointment.

except November last yr, McPhillips served as BlackBerry Asia Pacific channel sales director, leaving just over two years after joining cyber protection seller Cylance ahead of BlackBerry's acquisition. 

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