Trellix Promotes Gareth Maclachlan to Chief Product Officer

Trellix aligns product development and platform strategy under Maclachlan’s leadership to accelerate business growth

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trellix, the company delivering cybersecurity’s broadest AI-powered platform, today announced the promotion of Gareth Maclachlan to Chief Product Officer (CPO). With Maclachlan’s leadership, Trellix will accelerate product engineering and development for the Trellix Security Platform while further operationalizing industry-leading threat intelligence produced by the Trellix Advanced Research Center.

“Gareth is a key product strategist executing the company’s mission to deliver customers best-in-class security products built on our integrated security platform,” said Bryan Palma, CEO, Trellix. “With his proven track record driving innovation and deep experience in cybersecurity, he’s well positioned to help take Trellix into its next chapter of growth.”

As CPO, Maclachlan leads Trellix’s product development, detection engineering, and threat intelligence teams, delivering responsibly architected security designed to build resilience, simplify security operations, and protect data for customers. He brings over 20 years of experience to this role and most recently led the award-winning network, sandbox, and email security product lines at Trellix, as well as the divestiture and integration of both McAfee and FireEye. Before Trellix, he was responsible for Product Management and Go-to-Market for Mandiant Managed Defense, Consulting, and Threat Intelligence, as well as FireEye cloud security products.

“From its inception, Trellix has been committed to building industry-leading scalable solutions to strengthen cyber resilience for organizations worldwide and protect them against advanced cyber threats,” said Gareth Maclachlan, CPO, Trellix. “I look forward to continuing to transform the business, innovating AI and GenAI across our platform, and equipping customers with operational threat intelligence to advance their outcomes.”

The Trellix Security Platform leverages the company’s 30+ year history in cybersecurity with proven security products powered by advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI. With the responsibly architected suite of controls - across endpoint, network, data, email, cloud, and third-party integrations - the Trellix platform brings customers flexible and adaptable solutions to respond to the rapidly changing threat environment.

Learn more about the Trellix Security Platform here.

About Trellix
Trellix is a global company redefining the future of cybersecurity and soulful work. The company’s comprehensive, open and native cybersecurity platform helps organizations confronted by today’s most advanced threats gain confidence in the protection and resilience of their operations. Trellix, along with an extensive partner ecosystem, accelerates technology innovation through artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics to empower over 50,000 business and government customers with responsibly architected security. More at https://trellix.com.

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