Trey Ford named Chief Information Security Officer at Deepwatch

Trey Ford joined Deepwatch as Chief Information Security Officer on April 2, 2024. He will lead the company's Security and Information Technology teams. Ford previously served as Deputy CISO at Vista Equity Partners.

According to the release, Ford will also be responsible for keeping the company secure and resilient and for partnering with Deepwatch's customer community.

The company says Ford's more than 25 years of experience have been in program leadership focused on business-first security. According to the release, his work is grounded in incident response and based on learnings from both successful and unsuccessful offensive and defensive measures. The release says the measures behind Ford's work include public cloud, platform, network and application security. The company says that at Vista Equity Partners, Ford worked on cyber risk management and diligence for dozens of companies across exits, growth, integration and acquisition. Ford's earlier posts include Head of Trust and Chief Information Security Officer for Heroku at Salesforce, according to the company. The company says he was also General Manager of Black Hat and has held global consulting and strategic advisory roles.

Ford also said Deepwatch works as an extension of companies committed to detecting and responding to incidents, increasing visibility and speeding their return to business.

According to the company, the Deepwatch Managed Security Platform and its security experts give enterprises automated actions, reduced false positives, high fidelity alerts, rapid detections and 24/7/365 cyber resilience. The company says it operates as an extension of cybersecurity teams, offering response to threats and visibility across the attack surface.