Tenable Appoints Marty Edwards as Vice President of Operational Technology Security
Summary
Longest-serving Director of ICS-CERT joins Tenable following its acquisition of industrial security leader Indegy Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced the appointment of Marty Edwards, a globally recognized expert in cybersecurity for industrial control systems and operational technology (OT), as Vice President of OT Security. “OT is part of the modern attack surface and CISOs are being tasked with securing OT systems alongside traditional IT,” said Renaud Deraison, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tenable. Adding Marty Edwards, one of the foremost and most sought-after industrial cybersecurity experts, to our OT bench is another testament to our growing expertise in this space and to our commitment to pioneering new solutions for the next wave of IT/OT convergence.” At Tenable, Edwards will serve as an evangelist for the company’s OT security vision, with a particular focus on furthering government and industry initiatives to improve critical infrastructure security. In this role, he worked closely with government and industry leaders to help strengthen the cyber defenses of critical infrastructure. ) “Tenable uniquely understands the security challenges of dynamic computing environments — from traditional IT to OT to modern assets — and is bringing innovative solutions to market to solve them head-on,” said Edwards.