William Wetherill

DefenseStorm announced a leadership transition naming William Wetherill as its new Chief Information Security Officer, succeeding Robert Thibodeaux, who retired after nine years in the role. Wetherill previously led the company's Cyber Threat Surveillance Operations Team.

According to the release on Business Wire, Wetherill became the new CISO of DefenseStorm effective January 1st, 2023. The release also states that he has prior experience as a CISO and holds the certifications expected for the position. Wetherill says in the release that he intends to apply his expertise in incident response, risk management, strategic planning and cybersecurity program maturation.

DefenseStorm says Wetherill is a Certified Information Security Manager and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional. DefenseStorm says Wetherill has over 27 years of experience in IT, almost a third of it directly in cybersecurity. Before becoming CISO, he served as Director of Cybersecurity Operations at DefenseStorm, the leadership page says. DefenseStorm says Wetherill built and managed the Information Security Program at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, where he was previously the Chief Information Security Officer.

According to the release, the company's GRID ACTIVE data engine is designed to give real-time access to, analysis of and action on critical threat data.

Business Wire reports that DefenseStorm completed a $15M Series C raise, which JAM FINTOP, whose limited partners include over 80 community and mid-size banks, led with $5M. The remaining $10M came from existing investors, bringing the company's total funding to $67M, according to the same release. According to the news page, DefenseStorm recently completed a Series C-1 raise, and existing investor partners including Live Oak Ventures, Curql and Georgian led the round.