Apexa Corporation Hires Scott Foote as Virtual Chief Information Security Officer
Medway, MA – March, 2021 – Apexa Corporation has appointed Scott Foote as their new virtual Chief Information Security Officer.
Foote is an experienced cybersecurity executive with more than 30 years of technology leadership experience in cybersecurity and the broader software industry. He is the founder of Phenomenati, which provides a range of cybersecurity advisory and consulting services including virtual CISO services.
As Apexa’s CISO, Scott is already working with the company’s leadership team and board to establish and maintain the enterprise vision, strategy, and program for protecting the company’s corporate networks as well as their SaaS platform.
Lokesh Aggarwal, CTO of Apexa Corporation said, “We’re very excited to have Scott on board. He has built and led growth-dominated products and services teams, organizations, and startups from 10s to 1000s. He has an acute ability to bring order to chaos, understanding and mapping business-driven need for risk mitigation to security models, architectures, solutions, and technologies.”
Foote commented, “I’m excited to be working with a company providing a solution that I see a tremendous need for in my role as a virtual CISO. Apexa IQ delivers extensive Visibility into risk variables in a format I haven’t had in the past, providing a foundation for due diligence which most businesses have never been able to establish.”
Scott is an influential leader that has authored several thought pieces on cybersecurity from the original “Risk Formula”, to “Risk-Based Authentication/Authorization” and the Cyber SA model of “Network, Mission, and Threat”, to the recent “SOC Taxonomy”. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, is a member of several industry consortia, sits on a number of advisory boards and has been a member of the board of directors for many organizations.
Apexa Corporation is a New England based, woman owned Technology firm whose signature product, Apexa IQ, provides organizations with a Unified Hygiene Platform that provides visibility into the health of the entire IT environment on a single dashboard accompanied with a risk rating score and a path to improve that score.
