Perimeter E-Security, a provider of information security services, today announced that Andrew Jaquith has joined the company as its new Chief Technology Officer.
Andrew Jaquith will lead Perimeter’s Flagship Security and Messaging Portfolio at the company’s Boston Innovation Center which opened back in August.
Most recently serving as a senior analyst with Forrester Research, Andrew brings more than 20 years of IT and information security experience.
“I am excited about the opportunity to drive Perimeter’s vision forward and look forward to working with the management team to make that vision a reality,” said Andrew Jaquith.
At Forrester Research, Andrew led coverage for data, endpoint and mobile security and wrote 20 popular reports on data leak prevention, encryption, endpoint security, mobile security and vendor M&A.
Prior to Forrester, Jaquith served as program manager in Yankee Group’s enabling technologies enterprise group, with coverage of client security, digital identity, and web application security. Before joining Yankee Group, he co-founded @stake, a security consulting pioneer, which Symantec acquired in 2004. Previously, he held project manager and business analyst positions at Cambridge Technology Partners and FedEx.
Andrew is the co-developer of the Apache JSPWiki open source wiki software package and the author of the 2007 Addison-Wesley Professional book “Security Metrics: Replacing Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.” He holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Yale University.