– USA, WA – Cloudentity, a leading provider of modern application authorization and consent solutions, today announced the appointment of Jason Needham to its Board of Directors as CEO, bringing over 25 years of leadership experience across application networking, IT automation, cloud security, and SaaS solutions to his role at Cloudentity, where he will lead the company during its accelerated growth period.
“We are excited to have Jason take the helm of Cloudentity. Jason’s extensive cloud services, application and security background, combined with his strong leadership experience, will strengthen the company’s go-to-market proficiency as the company enters into its expansive growth phase,” said Sean Cunningham, managing director at ForgePoint Capital, a Cloudentity investor.
About Jason Needham
Most recently, Jason Needham served as senior director of multi-cloud security at VMware, where he oversaw engineering, product, and marketing of emerging cross-cloud security and management services after the company acquired CloudCoreo, a startup he co-founded two years prior. He also founded Union Bay Networks, a software-defined networking startup acquired by Apple in 2014. Additionally, Needham served as vice president of product management and marketing at F5, where he helped define the application delivery controller market and grow revenue from $100M to $1.3B.
“As organizations advance their digital transformation journeys, application modernization and service integration require greater application programming interface visibility and control in order to mitigate access, privacy, and compliance requirements,” said Jason Needham, CEO of Cloudentity. “Companies are sharing more and more data across an increasingly larger array of internal, external, and partner applications. It’s difficult to manage and getting worse. Cloudentity allows our customers to increase the velocity of application development, lower their costs, and better control application authorization and data privacy. We have a significant market opportunity in front of us, and I look forward to joining the team and helping our company scale and serve our customers.”
With the move to cloud and microservices-based architectures, APIs serve as the foundation for digital business as data is shared with customers, partners, and even other internal application components. Gartner predicts that by 2022, API attacks will become the most frequent attack vector, causing data breaches for enterprise web applications.*
About Cloudentity
Cloudentity provides the most flexible and scalable solution for modern application authorization and consent solutions to secure digital business across hybrid, multi-cloud, and microservices infrastructure. Delivered as an external declarative authorization service, the platform empowers developers to centrally manage fine-grained policy as code, orchestrate provisioning, assure privacy consent, and achieve continuous transaction-level enforcement at hyperscale. As a result, enterprises increase development velocity and service agility while mitigating privacy, API security, and compliance risks.
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