Securonix Appoints New Chief Executive Officer, Board Member

Nayaki Nayyar takes the helm at the tech startup, which at the same time, announced that founder and former CEO Sachin Nayyar (not related) has transitioned to the role of executive chairman of the board.

Addison-headquartered Securonix Inc. announced Nayaki Nayyar has been appointed chief executive officer and member of its board of directors, effective immediately.

Securonix is a leader in Next-Gen SIEM, UEBA and SOAR, and at the same time, the company announced that founder and former CEO Sachin Nayyar (not related) has transitioned to the role of executive chairman of the board.

“On behalf of the Board of Directors, I am delighted to welcome Nayaki to the Securonix team,” Sachin Nayyar said in a statement. “Securonix is well-positioned for sustained long-term growth with the industry leading solution in the SIEM, UEBA and SOAR markets and strategic GTM partnerships with Snowflake and AWS. Nayaki’s track record of innovative corporate leadership and deep subject matter expertise make her the right leader to guide Securonix through its next phase of growth.”

Nayaki Nayyar brings more than 25 years of deep industry experience in driving transformation, innovation, and growth in large enterprise software companies. Most recently, she was president and chief product officer of Ivanti where she was responsible for cybersecurity, automation, edge and endpoint device management, and service management. She was instrumental in Ivanti’s significant growth through acquisitions, launch of Ivanti’s Neurons Platform, and doubling its total addressable market from $30 billion to $60 billion in the past two years.

Before Ivanti, she held executive positions at BMC Software and SAP.

“I am super proud to join Securonix, an exceptionally innovative pioneer that has redefined the SIEM market, has been named a leader in SIEM by Gartner four years in a row and set the standard for cloud-native security analytics and operations,” Nayaki Nayyar said in a statement. “Securonix has achieved excellence across multiple domains, including product innovation in Next-Gen SIEM, UEBA and SOAR, threat detection/hunting, data science, and operations, and is now poised to scale its operations and reach. I look forward to working with the team at Securonix to achieve our mission to address the cybersecurity challenges faced by organizations globally.”

Securonix said that it is redefining threat detection and response for today’s hybrid cloud, data-driven enterprise. Securonix Next-Gen SIEM, UEBA, and SOAR are powered by the most advanced analytics and built on a scalable, flexible cloud-native architecture.

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