Industry veteran Gun Suk Ling appointed as regional vice president
(ALISO VIEJO, CA) March 6, 2007 — eEye Digital Security®, a leading developer of endpoint security and vulnerability management software solutions, today announced their increased presence in Asia-Pacific with the appointment of Gun Suk Ling as eEye's Vice President, Sales, Asia-Pacific. In her new role, Ms. Gun is responsible for growth and development, as well as delivery of security leader eEye's entire award-winning portfolio of endpoint security and vulnerability management solutions in the Asia-Pacific region. The additional focus in this region marks a rapid escalation in market opportunity and regional interest in eEye's products. Mr. Ross Brown, eEye's CEO, will be on-hand for the company's Asia-Pacific market launch, together with the eEye regional partners of Taiwan and Malaysia.
"We're very happy to have someone with Ms. Gun's expertise and experience on board to address the exploding interest in eEye within this vitally important region," said Ross Brown, CEO of eEye Digital Security. "Her track record of success, as well as her extensive contacts with key channel partners, distributors and end customers in the region, makes her an ideal addition to our management team as we grow our presence in this vast market."
Ms. Gun comes to eEye from Symantec, where she served as country manager for Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei, including creating the local office in Malaysia on her own. Prior to this role, she was Symantec's channel marketing manager for South East Asia. After Symantec, she then set up a joint venture IT distribution company with Patimas Computer Berhad, a publicly listed company in Malaysia. Under her guidance, the business expanded to Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore. Ms. Gun holds a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration majoring in General Marketing with a Minor in Business Information Systems from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
"I am very pleased with eEye's expansion to the Asia-Pacific market, as now is the time for companies in this market to begin seriously implementing vulnerability assessment as one of their key monitoring tools," said Ms. Gun. "Given the sheer volume of vulnerabilities that are being announced on a regular basis, companies need to provide ongoing, regular vulnerability scanning for their networks."
eEye's Asia-Pacific business engagement model will be 100 percent channel-centric. As a result, the company will be working with and recruiting VARs, system integrators and consulting firms to target all business segments from small to large enterprises, service providers and even government.
eEye's integrated family of vulnerability management solutions provides IT and security professionals the tools to safeguard their valuable digital assets. Working in conjunction with popular tools such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems, eEye's product portfolio includes the Blink® family of Unified Client Security products, Retina® Network Security Scanner, REM® Security Management Console, Iris® Network Traffic Analyzer and SecureIIS™ Web Server Protection. Interested parties can find out more by visiting www.eeye.com.
About eEye Digital Security
eEye Digital Security® is pioneering a new class of security products:integrated threat management. This next-generation of security detects vulnerabilities and threats, prevents intrusions, protects all of an enterprise’s key computing resources, from endpoints to network assets to web sites and web applications, all while providing a centralized point of security management and network visibility.eEye’s research team is consistently the first to identify new threats in the wild, and our products leverage that research to deliver on the goal of making network security as easy to use and reliable as networking itself. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Orange County, California, eEye Digital Security protects more than 9,000 corporate and government organizations worldwide, including half of the Fortune 100. For more information, please visit www.eeye.com
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