Director to oversee country operations and position corporate strategy
TippingPoint, a leader in intrusion prevention, today announced the appointment of Karoon Taychaburapanone as managing director of TippingPoint Thailand. Karoon is responsible for overseeing all country operations, including managing and positioning the corporate strategy across the country.
According to David M. Schmertz, TippingPoint’s vice president of sales and marketing for Asia-Pacific, “We are delighted to have Karoon leading TippingPoint’s business in Thailand. Karoon will continue to foster open and ongoing communication with our local partners and customers to support their needs.”
Before joining TippingPoint, Karoon was the managing director ASEAN/India of F5 Networks. Prior to F5, Karoon was the country director of Avaya Asia Pacific, Zenith Comp’s executive director and a director of sales operations for Lotus Development (Asia Pacific) Pte Ltd., Singapore.
Karoon’s extensive experience and IT knowledge will enable him to focus on the specific needs of the Thailand marketplace. With ultimate responsibility for TippingPoint’s Thailand customer base, Karoon will promote TippingPoint through the delivery of a comprehensive security intelligence solution and service offering.
“I am delighted to take on this challenge during such an exciting time for TippingPoint and for our industry,” said Karoon. “The TippingPoint Thailand team stands ready to partner with our customers to meet their business objectives and address the challenging requirements of networking security with the latest technology required to meet these objectives.”
About TippingPointTippingPoint is a leading global provider of comprehensive network security solutions that address the security and regulatory compliance needs of complex network environments for enterprises, government agencies, service providers and academic institutions. With the TippingPoint IPS-Secured Network, which includes the TippingPoint? Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and Network Access Control (NAC) solution, network infrastructure, applications, and critical data are protected from malicious cyber attacks. TippingPoint’s 360? approach to network security enables enterprises to enforce security policies across all users, devices, traffic flows and content; while preserving existing infrastructure and ensuring business continuity to help lower total cost of ownership. TippingPoint’s security intelligence is powered by DVLabs, TippingPoint’s premier team of expert internal researchers for vulnerability analysis and discovery. DVLabs is supplemented by over 800 external Zero Day Initiative researchers. For more information, please visit www.tippingpoint.com, or the press center at www.tippingpoint.com/press.
About 3Com Corporation
3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) is a leading provider of secure, converged voice and data networking solutions for enterprises of all sizes. 3Com offers a broad line of innovative products backed by world class sales, service and support, which excel at delivering business value for its customers. Through its TippingPoint division, 3Com is a leading provider of network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver in-depth application protection, infrastructure protection, and performance protection. For further information, please visit www.3com.com, or the press site .
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