Kevin Paige named Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Product Strategy at Uptycs

Uptycs, provider of a unified cloud security platform, announced the appointment of Kevin Paige as Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Product Strategy. Paige previously served as Vice President and CISO at Flexport and held security leadership roles at Salesforce and MuleSoft. He is also a former director of data center operations and security for the US Army.

The company says Paige will lead corporate security and product innovation, and it describes him as a three-time Uptycs customer. According to the release, the dual role draws on his thirty years of security experience and is meant to protect the employees and customers of Uptycs.

Before working for technology companies in the private sector, Paige served in the U.S. Air Force, according to the release. The release says he co-led a nationwide digital transformation effort to modernize and secure more than 300 applications across several government agencies. Uptycs said that, at the time of the announcement, Paige was a Venture Advisor at YL Ventures and an investor at Silicon Valley CISO Investments. According to Uptycs, Flexport is a freight logistics platform, and Paige, as its CISO, described it as a cloud-based company that runs on AWS.

According to the release, Uptycs is based in Waltham, Mass., and its platform combines CNAPP and XDR. The company says its platform prioritizes responses to compliance mandates, sensitive data exposure, misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and threats across workspaces, servers, containers and clouds. Uptycs says the platform works from one UI and data model and ties together threat activity as it moves across cloud and on-prem boundaries.

Uptycs says Paige offered the example of an artifact repository, which makes builds faster for the engineering team and allows better security and version control.