HEROIC.com adds Key Leadership to Help Build Blockchain Powered Cybersecurity

Wyatt Semanek
HEROIC.com
Published in
3 min readFeb 22, 2019

SILICON SLOPES, Utah, Feb. 22, 2019 — HEROIC Cybersecurity, a leading provider of data breach monitoring and blockchain based cybersecurity solutions, announced today the appointment of Joe Hall as Chief Information Security Officer and Spencer Montgomery as Vice President of Business Development.

“Both Spencer and Joe are excellent additions, not only to the HEROIC team, but to the entire cybersecurity community,” said Chad Bennett, HEROIC’s CEO. “We’re building the future of cybersecurity and need proven experts to pioneer the way. We feel that Spencer and Joe will do just that.”

Joe Hall, Chief Information Security Officer

Joe Hall — HEROIC CISO

Hall, a cybersecurity veteran with over 15 years of experience in network security and risk mitigation, joins HEROIC as the company’s principal security strategist. Prior to joining HEROIC, Hall held numerous security engineering positions at Sophos, Symantec, Dell, American Express, Solera and SonicWALL. As a forward-thinking leader at these large companies, Hall’s experience includes supporting the launch of Dell’s SuperMassive Next-Gen Firewall Series and training hundreds of support technicians on various enterprise security product lines. As CISO, Hall will help with the architecture and development of HEROIC’s blockchain-based data platforms along with ensuring the security of our software.

Spencer Montgomery, Vice President of Business Development

Spencer Montgomery

Montgomery, a blockchain thought leader, and previously Microsoft’s Blockchain Evangelist for the Bay Area is most recognized for his role in the launch of Microsoft’s blockchain solutions including Coco framework and Azure Blockchain App Builder. Spencer has been at the forefront of educating businesses about emerging technologies. Prior to Microsoft, Montgomery was a sales executive at Xamarin, a mobile development platform. In his new role with HEROIC, Montgomery will focus on investment and partnerships as well as developing and executing company sales plans.

The HEROIC software ecosystem consists of the following components:

  • HEROIC Arc Reactor™ — A decentralized cyber threat intelligence platform. Arc Reactor enables open access to cyber threat data through a blockchain based marketplace, providing the framework necessary to create fully autonomous, next-generation cybersecurity solutions.
    HEROIC Epic™ — An enterprise-focused data solution that enables proactive protection against Third-party Data Breaches, Account Takeover (ATO), and Credential stuffing attacks.
    HEROIC DarkHive™ — Comprising tens of billions of records, the HEROIC DarkHive is one of the worlds largest repositories of breached, leaked and compromised data.
    HEROIC Guardian™ — A cloud-based, unified threat protection platform that utilizes data from Arc Reactor and the DarkHive, combining it with artificial intelligence, to predict and prevent cyber attacks. Guardian protects both devices and cloud services enabling individuals, families, and businesses to manage all pieces of the cybersecurity puzzle.

ABOUT HEROIC

HEROIC Cybersecurity, based in Provo, Utah, was founded with a mission to protect humanity from the future of advanced cyber threats. Utilizing emerging technologies, HEROIC is laying the framework necessary to protect against AI-based cyber threats and to build the next generation of cybersecurity.

To learn more, visit https://heroic.com

CONTACT

HEROIC Cybersecurity

Wyatt Semanek

pr@heroic.com

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