Stormshield strengthens its management team

Franck Bourguet has joined the Stormshield Management Committee as Vice President of Engineering. His strategic mission is to organise and structure R&D activities so as to guarantee and continually improve product quality and security, while supporting innovation and the technological choices of the future.

As leader of the engineering team, Franck Bourguet will support Stormshield’s growth by ensuring product development methods are efficient and by improving existing offers to better meet the new cybersecurity needs of companies and organisations.

His priorities will be to develop solutions recognised for their technological excellence and featuring the highest level of security and confidence. He will also meet changing needs related to the digital transformation in terms of optimisation of the marketing cycle, innovation and agility.

His solid professional experience gained in leading structures such as Thales, where he held various technical management positions in France and abroad, will help him carry out his mission. As head of the Engineering department, he supervised a team of more than 150 employees. He is an expert in topics related to infrastructure, networks and security, and therefore has all the assets needed to best support the publisher in its growth.

Franck Bourguet, now 47, holds a degree from Télécom Saint-Étienne engineering school (ISTASE class of ’96).

Pierre-Yves Hentzen, CEO of Stormshield:  “We are proud to welcome Franck Bourguet to our management team. His expertise will allow us to set new objectives and strengthen our competitive advantage by developing breakthrough solutions to actively combat cyber threats.”

Stormshield

A European leader in digital infrastructure security and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Airbus CyberSecurity, we offer smart, connected solutions in order to anticipate attacks and protect digital infrastructures. Our mission: to ensure the cybersecurity and data protection of organizations, their employees, and their customers. Our expertise is available in three complementary product ranges for seamless security: Protection for industrial and IT networks (Stormshield Network Security), protection for servers and workstations (Stormshield Endpoint Security) protection for data (Stormshield Data Security). As per our Multi-Layer Collaborative Security approach, our product ranges interact with one another to raise the security level of IT, OT, and Cloud environments, regardless of the attack point.

These trusted, cutting-edge solutions are certified at the highest level in Europe (EU RESTRICTED, NATO, ANSSI EAL3+/EAL4+). Present in over 40 countries via our network of distributor partners, we ensure the protection of strategic information for companies of all sizes, public administrations, and defense agencies throughout the world.

For further information please visit: www.stormshield.com/