Josh Shaul is the new CEO for anti-phishing solutions provider Allure Security

“Josh’s impressive background in building profitable businesses and his in-depth knowledge of web security will help position Allure for continued excellence in these rapidly changing times.” – Rick Grinnell, Glasswing Ventures

BOSTON (PRWEB)
April 08, 2020

Allure Security, provider of patented anti-phishing technology that protects enterprise customers and helps online businesses build and retain digital trust, today announced the appointment of Josh Shaul as the company’s new chief executive officer (CEO). Shaul will lead Allure through its next major growth and development phase. Jack Hembrough, who had served as interim CEO, will now become the company’s executive chairman of the board. Both will be based out of Allure’s Boston-area headquarters.

As CEO, Shaul’s core objective is to shape and execute Allure Security’s vision and aggressive growth strategy. Shaul brings more than 20 years of information security experience to this role, including senior leadership positions at Akamai, Singtel/Trustwave, Application Security, and SafeNet. He has a proven track record of building teams, creating impactful strategy, and driving growth for security companies of varying sizes. Prior to joining Allure, Shaul was vice president of Web Security at Akamai Technologies, where he spent four years leading its security business team through explosive growth, guiding the business from a base of nearly $300M to nearly $1B in annual revenue. In addition to being a sought-after speaker at security conferences such as RSA, Shaul is also the author of the acclaimed book, Practical Oracle Security: Your Unauthorized Guide To Relational Database Security. 

“Josh’s impressive background in building profitable businesses and his in-depth knowledge of web security will help position Allure for continued excellence in these rapidly changing times,” said Rick Grinnell, founder and managing partner of Glasswing Ventures and member of the Board of Directors at Allure Security. “We are grateful for Jack’s leadership as interim CEO and look forward to working with him and Josh as the company continues its important work in an ever-increasing cyber threat landscape.”

Built on patented beacon technology, Allure’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) alerts companies in real-time when cybercriminals build malicious spoof versions of their customer-facing websites as part of an orchestrated phishing attack. Allure empowers organizations to be more proactive before a phishing scheme has the chance to succeed, protecting the private credentials of customers and keeping the company’s brand reputation intact.

“As we head into a completely new paradigm in which global economic and public health events have forced more transactions to be made online, enterprises and their customers face even more threats from phishing scams,” noted Josh Shaul, CEO of Allure Security. “I am looking forward to leading Allure as we help companies every step of the way in these challenging times. Now more than ever, it’s vital to detect and shut down phishing threats, preserving that important trust relationship between companies and their end-users.”

About Allure Security

Allure Security’s mission is to improve early detection of web spoofing as part of an orchestrated phishing attack, protecting customers from fraud and preserving the enterprise’s brand reputation. Using its patented, award-winning beacon and deception technologies, Allure Security’s SaaS platform empowers enterprise security teams to detect and fight back against web spoofing in real-time. Organizations can proactively protect customer data and preserve brand reputation using a modern, easy-to-deploy solution. Allure Security is a Glasswing Ventures portfolio company. For more information, visit http://www.alluresecurity.com. 

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Allure on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/alluresecurity/

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Paul Conant

I am looking forward to working with business owners and company leaders to learn about their business, help them define their goals, assist them with the creation of a strategic plan to reach those goals, and then keep them accountable for progress along the way. – Paul Conant

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (PRWEB)
April 07, 2020

Paul Conant has been advising business owners and company leaders since he started working with technology in the 1980s, but as he worked his way into business management positions and then built his own marketing company. He found that many business owners had the same challenge: they wanted to focus on marketing, sales and growth when really the business needed organization, structure and systems support first.

Although Conant was always willing to help coach business owners on ways to make improvements, he’s looking forward to being able to offer that support full time as the owner of his new business – The Growth Coach of Scottsdale.

The Growth Coach is the largest provider of affordable group coaching workshops in the nation, but coaches also offer group and one-on-one coaching for sales professionals, managers, management teams, self-employed professionals and more through a wide variety of programs via three industry-leading series – their Foundational Series, Fundamental Series and Fast Forward Series. The Growth Coach’s mission is to help business leaders build more successful businesses and more balanced lives. Conant will be serving clients in Phoenix, Scottsdale, Fountain Hills, Chandler, Tempe and the surrounding areas in Arizona.

“As I was working with businesses on marketing tactics – especially with helping them to be found online – I realized businesses had deeper issues. For example, if you have a website with a phone number, but you don’t have an answering service or anyone to take those calls 24/7, then you are missing a huge number of potential leads. There have to be processes in place to handle whatever kinds of marketing, sales or growth strategies you’re implementing and, in many cases, there are fundamental structure issues that just need to be worked through. As a Growth Coach, I’m better equipped to help business owners and company leaders navigate and overcome those challenges,” Conant said.

Conant started his career in the 1980s when he launched his own electronics repair company and started helping people with digital marketing. He now owns Gizoom Marketing and Smile Esthetics Scottsdale Dental Office and has a background in retail management.

As a Growth Coach, Conant is certified in The Strategic Mindset coaching process, which adheres to the standards, practices and policies that the International Coaching Federation has set forth in their Code of Professional Standards and Ethics. The company’s landmark Strategic Mindset Process is so effective that it comes with a money-back guarantee.

“So many business owners, especially small business owners, are out there playing whack-a-mole. They are working 80 hours a week and they are exhausted from constantly putting out fires – but they aren’t growing their business or finding any great success. They are surviving rather than thriving,” Conant said. “As a Growth Coach, I am looking forward to working with business owners and company leaders to learn about their business, help them define their goals, assist them with the creation of a strategic plan to reach those goals, and then keep them accountable for progress along the way. I’m excited to help people slow down, step back and do more than survive.”

The Growth Coach, founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, sold its first franchise in 2003, but its leaders have a successful 20-year track record of helping business leaders find success and balance. Today the business and sales coaching franchise is in more than 100 markets worldwide. The Growth Coach was included in Bond’s “Top 100 Franchises” and recognized in Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Franchise 500” and “Best of the Best,” in USA Today and has been featured on FOX, CBS and NBC.

For more information about how The Growth Coach of Scottsdale can help you and your business, call (480) 750-7613, email PConant@TheGrowthCoach.com or visit http://www.TheGrowthCoachScottsdale.com.

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The Virtual CISO Podcast

HAMILTON, N.J. (PRWEB)
April 07, 2020

Is a Virtual CIO (vCIO) the right support for your business in these challenging times, and going forward? How is a vCIO different from a traditional MSP or IT consultant? How do you know if you need a vCIO, and what should you expect from one?

To address these increasingly urgent questions, Pivot Point Security CISO and Managing Partner, John Verry, speaks with Darek Hahn, president and CEO at VelocIT and a thought leader in the vCIO space in this latest episode of “The Virtual CISO Podcast”.

Many MSPs offer some flavor of vCIO support—but is it the flavor you need? According to Darek, “… the CIO is a business person, not a technical person. We have too many technical people acting as CIOs.”

This podcast episode delivers fresh insight across a range of topics, including:

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  The role of the CIO versus a CTO or traditional managed services consultant
• How to tell if you need a vCIO
• What qualities to look for (and what to avoid) in a CIO or vCIO

If you’re considering changes in how your firm is handling IT, especially now when the pressure is on and making the right moves quickly is all-important, this podcast is guaranteed to give you a valuable new perspective to guide next steps.

To access this episode and a fast-growing slate of others in Pivot Point Security’s Virtual CISO podcast series anytime, visit this page.

About Pivot Point Security

Since 2001, Pivot Point Security has been helping organizations understand and effectively manage their information security risk. We work as a logical extension of your team to simplify the complexities of security and compliance. We’re where to turn—when InfoSec gets challenging.

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ProCulture® Products for Cell Culture Workflows

Products that can simplify researchers’ cell culture experiments

WAYNE, N.J. (PRWEB)
April 07, 2020

ProCulture®, the new workflow-minded product line for cell culture from Bel-Art and Wilmad-LabGlass brands, covers multiple steps of the cell culture process from isolation to harvesting. Products include an array of Shaker Flasks, Spinner Flasks with a unique impeller that increases aeration and eliminates dead spots, and an Orbital Shaker Platform that converts an existing magnetic stir plate into an orbital shaker at a fraction of the cost of an orbital shaker. A comprehensive catalog is available.

“The ProCulture® line includes products that can simplify researchers’ cell culture experiments,” explained Kathleen Hanek, Portfolio Manager for SP Scienceware. “There are tried and true items such as shaker flasks and storage racks as well as products you can’t find anywhere else.”

Spinner and Shaker Flasks can be viewed online at wilmad-labglass.com. For more information, please call 800-220-5171 or email cs@wilmad-labglass.com. All other ProCulture® products can be found on belart.com. Please call 800-423-5278 or email cservice.belart@spindustries.com for more information. To download catalogs from SP Scienceware brands (Bel-Art, H-B Instrument or Wilmad-LabGlass), visit belart.com/catalogs.

About SP Scienceware:

Research, industrial and healthcare professionals around the world rely on SP Scienceware for their sample handling needs. Bel-Art and H-B Instrument brand laboratory supplies include over 3,500 items from safety wash bottles to fume hoods, thermometers, racks, desiccators, hydrometers, ice buckets, magnetic stirring bars, scoops and spoons. Calibration services and OEM plastic and wire manufacturing are also available. Wilmad-LabGlass brand laboratory glassware complements this vast array with over 7,000 items including NMR and EPR consumables and specialty glassware, as well as custom fabrication for individual glassware, glass repair services and OEM glass parts.

SP Scienceware is a division of Warminster, PA based SP Industries which also include SP Scientific laboratory, thermal management, and pharmaceutical production equipment and SP Ableware aids for daily living.

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The KSO free Summer Concerts at Devou Park

Raffling off rare and hard to find bourbons to support our efforts in the community is a highlight of our annual event — James Cassidy, KSO Music Director

NEWPORT, Ky. (PRWEB)
April 07, 2020

Joining the ranks of orchestras across the country, the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra recently canceled the remainder of its 2019-20 season due to the Covid19 national emergency. However, the KSO will still hold its rare bourbon raffle on April 25 at 9:30 p.m. via Facebook Live. The proceeds of this raffle help the KSO produce free family concerts in Devou Park and education programs for thousands of students from over 250 area schools.

“Raffling off rare and hard to find bourbons to support our efforts in the community is a highlight of our annual event. Though we can’t gather this year to taste, dine and dance, the KSO still must raise funds to offer these community programs slated for the Summer and Fall,” said KSO Music Director, James R. Cassidy.

This year’s featured bottle of rare bourbon is a Double Eagle Very Rare 20-year from Buffalo Trace Distillers. Chances are $50 each for this bottle of extremely rare and stylishly presented bourbon. There will only be up to 300 raffle tickets sold, so your chances are better than most to score this 2019 bottle of Double Eagle Very Rare (MSRP $3,500, with other markets priced from $18-35k)

This very limited 20-year-old bourbon is matured twice as long as Eagle Rare 10-year bourbon and features two beautifully-sculpted crystal glass eagles in the Double Eagle decanter. A true collectors’ item, Double Eagle Very Rare is presented in a luxurious silver box and crystal decanter. Only 299 bottles were produced, with an individually-numbered letter of authenticity included.

The KSO is proud of its long-standing support from our friends and neighbors at The Party Source in Bellevue, KY, who have also provided two hard to find bourbons for an additional Two-Chance Raffle ($20 per ticket). The Two-Chance raffle includes a drawing for a bottle of George T. Stagg (2019) and a second drawing for a bottle of Old Rip Van Winkle 10-year (2019).

Party Source president & CEO Jon Stiles said, “The Party Source has been proud to be a supporter of the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra for the last 27 years. The arts are vital part of any community, and Northern Kentucky has been fortunate to have the KSO’s commitment to providing fine performances and educational experiences for young people since 1992.”

Nearly 15,000 tristate residents gather at the amphitheater in Covington’s Devou Park each summer, and 5,000 students benefit from engaging education programs in the Fall, both of which the KSO provides free of charge via proceeds raised through raffle ticket sales, auctions, donors, sponsors and attendees of the Bourbon Barrel Ball.

Visit the KSO’s website to purchase your chance to showcase your own bottle of Double Eagle Very Rare and for the Stagg and Pappy raffle. Tickets must be purchased before 9:00 p.m. April 25th. Tickets are limited and may sell out prior to that deadline. Raffle tickets can only be purchased those who are 21 years or older.

We hope to call your name on Facebook Live Saturday, April 25th at 9:30 p.m. Due to “stay in place” orders by the governor, winners can not be present, but will be notified and should arrange to pick up prizes at the Symphony’s office in Newport, KY.

About the KSO:

For 28 years the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra has taken the “phony” out of symphony by eliminating traditional barriers and presenting engaging, live, thematic concerts that enrich, educate and entertain the residents of Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati. The KSO performs three series of concerts annually throughout Northern Kentucky.

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