February 1, 2017 -- Verve Industrial Protection, formerly known as RKNeal, announced the appointment of Eric Byres P.Eng, ISA Fellow, as Senior Advisor. Mr. Byres will work with the leadership of the company on product and strategic matters in the arena of industrial cybersecurity and protection.
Mr. Byres has a tremendous track record as a leader in ICS cybersecurity. As the inventor of the Tofino Security technology, Eric and his partner Joann guided the product through its evolution from academic research project and startup to successful acquisition by Belden Inc.
Eric is also known for his leadership in international standards and research for ICS/SCADA security. As the founder of the BCIT Critical Infrastructure Security Centre, he shaped it into one of North America's leading academic facilities in ICS security, culminating in a SANS Institute Security Leadership Award in 2006. He was the founding chair of the ISA SP-99 Security Technologies Working Group, and the Canadian representative for the IEC TC65/WG10 standards effort.
Mr. Byres will focus helping expand the capabilities of Verve Industrial's flagship product, Verve Security Center (VSC). VSC is a vendor agnostic platform that consolidates antivirus, application whitelisting, change & configuration management, security information & event management (SIEM), patch management, vulnerability assessments, intrusion detection, backup management, and compliance evidence management. VSC unifies threat intelligence into a single console simplifying the complexity of ICS security and compliance.