– USA, NY – Deep Instinct, the first company to apply end-to-end deep learning to cybersecurity, today announced the appointment of Lane Bess as CEO, effective immediately, replacing co-founder Guy Caspi who succeeds him as Board Chair and is also Chief Product Officer.
About Lane Bess
As an early investor and then Executive Chair of Deep Instinct’s Board, Lane Bess has intimate knowledge of the company’s mission, innovation strategy, and ongoing operations. Under his leadership, Deep Instinct closed $62.5 million in new financing led by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, alongside other existing investors, including Chrysalis Investments, Millennium, and Unbound. The latest investment will accelerate the growth of Deep Instinct as the company further penetrates the market with its disruptive threat-prevention technology.
Lane Bess has over 35 years of experience in cybersecurity and technology and a proven track record of leading rapidly growing cybersecurity companies. He was formerly CEO of Palo Alto Networks for several years before its IPO. After that, he took on the role of COO of Zscaler where he partnered with founder Jay Chaudhry to lead the rapid scaling of the company up until its successful IPO.
About Deep Instinct
Deep Instinct takes a prevention-first approach to stop ransomware and other malware using the world’s first and only purpose-built, deep learning cybersecurity framework. We predict and prevent known, unknown, and zero-day threats in <20 milliseconds, 750X faster than the fastest ransomware can encrypt. Deep Instinct has >99% zero-day accuracy and promises a <0.1% false positive rate. The Deep Instinct Prevention Platform is essential to every security stack—providing complete, multi-layered protection against threats across hybrid environments.
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