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Secucloud appoints former E-POST managing director Mark Rees as its new COO
October 2016 by Marc Jacob
In the era of the internet of things,
comprehensive protection for all internet-enabled devices is becoming increasingly
challenging. The Hamburg-based IT security company Secucloud is responding to this
situation with an innovative security concept for telcos and mobile operators that
enables them to provide their customers with extensive protection for all their
devices direct from the cloud. Secucloud is growing fast with this approach. On 22
September, Secucloud announced the appointment of the IT specialist Renzo Pecoraro
to lead the development team – and it is now reinforcing the operations management
side of the company as well. The company appointed the seasoned industry expert Mark
Rees, an agile leadership specialist and former managing director of E-POST, at the
beginning of September as chief operations officer (COO).
During the course of his career, Mark Rees has been managing director of E-POST
Development GmbH in Berlin, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post. In that position, he led
a team of over 200 staff in agile DevOps teams and had supervisory duties as well as
complete budget responsibility for the IT security, DevOps, quality assurance,
operations and user experience areas. In his new role as COO, Mark Rees brings to
Secucloud his expertise in agile leadership, as well as his experience managing
cross-functional IT organisations in the media and IT security industries.
Security and cloud-based efficiency
Secucloud specialises in security for the internet of things. The company’s
security mechanisms, which defend users against cybercrime and spying attempts, are
located in the cloud and directly protect all the customer’s connected devices. As
a cloud solution, no software installation or configuration is required and the
solution updates itself automatically. Users benefit from security technologies
that, until now, have only been available to large enterprises with plenty of
financial muscle. Users also benefit from secucloud’s predictable subscription
prices.
