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Cyber job moves mark internal advances and new company arrivals | week of September 20 - 26. Published 8 hours ago Cybersecurity Staff Editor Mike Viruso - Varonis Mike Viruso returned to enterprise sales as Strategic Account Manager at Varonis in September 2026. Viruso most recently served as Chief Growth Officer at Tier4 AI from November 2025 to September 2026. He previously spent more than three years as Senior Vice President of Sales at SilverSky and nearly two years as Enterprise Sales Director at Arctic Wolf. Viruso also remains Founder & Owner of Lake Norman HarborHippos, a collegiate summer baseball organization he established in 2024. (source) Austin Nicola Ardisaputra - Doppel Austin Nicola Ardisaputra moved to Doppel as Software Engineer - L4 in July 2026. Ardisaputra most recently worked as Software Engineer - L3 at Airtable for one year. He previously spent nearly two years as a Research Assistant at California PATH - ITS Research Center at UC Berkeley and completed a Software Engineer internship at Wealthfront in 2024. Ardisaputra also worked part-time as a Web Developer with the Blum Center for Developing Economies for more than two years. (source) Bright Wang - Doppel Bright Wang took up the position of Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Doppel in August 2026. Wang most recently served as Staff Machine Learning Engineer & Tech Lead - Modeling at Okta, spending more than five years with the company. He previously worked at Bell for more than three years, first as Senior Data Scientist and later as Senior AI Architect (ML Lead). Wang also held positions as Java DevOps at Dawn InfoTek and Big Data Analyst at Scotiabank earlier in his career. (source) David Tang - Doppel David Tang started as Staff Technical Program Manager at Doppel in July 2026. Tang most recently worked as Technical Program Manager at Meta from December 2023 to July 2026. He previously held a Technical Program Manager position at Instagram for a year and a half and spent nearly two years as Program Manager at Microsoft. Tang also worked at Ford Motor Company across software engineering, cybersecurity engineering, and technical program management positions between July 2017 and March 2020. (source) Tom Cheah - Doppel Tom Cheah became a Software Engineer on Doppel's Simulation team in 2026. Cheah most recently served as Senior Software Engineer at Meta after spending nearly four years there as a Production Engineer. He previously completed software engineering internships at Facebook, Amazon, and SAP SuccessFactors, working across production infrastructure, cloud services, and application development. Cheah also spent nearly two years as a Software Engineer at Berkeley Mobile, where he worked on the backend infrastructure for its mobile application. (source) Thomas Nuth - Kai Thomas Nuth was named Vice President of Product Marketing at Kai in September 2026. Nuth most recently served as Head of Product Marketing - Cloud, AI, OT, and Identity at Tenable. He previously spent a year as Head of Product Marketing - Cloud at Wiz and held product marketing leadership positions at Qualys, including Vice President of Product Marketing and Content. Nuth also worked as Vice President Global Marketing at DeNexus Inc. before later serving as an advisor to the company. (source) Craig Poole - Veeam Software Craig Poole assumed the position of Senior Manager Center of Expertise at Veeam Software in September 2026. Poole most recently served as Director, Kyndryl Consult at Kyndryl after holding several leadership positions with the company. He previously spent a decade at IBM as IBM Global Portfolio Leader and also worked as Global Portfolio Leader - DRaaS with IBM Resiliency Services. Poole earlier spent nearly four years as IBM Solutions Architect at Vision Solutions before moving to IBM in 2012. (source)

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Doppel names Hideki Ushigome as Japan Country Manager. Mon, 3rd Aug 2026 (Today) Doppel has appointed Hideki Ushigome as Country Manager for Japan, adding a long-serving cybersecurity executive to its leadership team in the market. He will oversee growth, operations, partnerships and customer strategy as Doppel expands its local presence after entering Japan earlier this year. Ushigome brings more than 25 years of experience across technology and cybersecurity. Most recently, he was Country Manager at Swimlane, where he led the relaunch of the company's Japan operations and worked with government and financial services customers. Before that, he spent more than five years as Japan Country Manager at Recorded Future, where he established the company's Japanese operations and helped grow the country into its second-largest market worldwide. He has also held Country Manager roles at Rapid7 and Websense, as well as senior leadership positions at Check Point and Sophos. The appointment comes as Doppel expands its leadership team and adds staff in Japan across sales, customer success, field marketing and channel partnerships. Those hires will work with customers and partners from evaluation and deployment through ongoing operations. Japan has become a focus for Doppel as it seeks to address social engineering threats targeting local organisations and users. Recent intelligence from a honeypot project in Japan showed phishing activity began immediately after launch, with sensors receiving thousands of unsolicited messages in the first five weeks. Threat patterns Financial services and payments accounted for 67.8% of impersonated brands identified through that research, followed by eCommerce and fintech at 23.3%, according to the company. It also found that 67% of malicious lures arrived on Mondays or Fridays, while 47% arrived at either 9 a.m. or noon Japan time. The findings point to a threat environment shaped by local brands, language and daily routines. Doppel argues this localisation can make attacks harder to detect using approaches developed for other markets. "Doppel has built a differentiated approach to one of the most urgent challenges facing organizations across the globe," said Hideki Ushigome, Country Manager for Japan at Doppel. "I am thrilled to join the company at such an important stage of growth and to help build Doppel's presence in Japan. I look forward to working closely with our customers, partners, and growing local team to bring our industry leading social engineering defense platform to more organizations across the market." His arrival follows Doppel's broader push into Japan and comes amid growing concern in the cybersecurity sector over the use of artificial intelligence to create more convincing phishing and impersonation attempts in local languages. "Japan represents a critical frontier in the fight against global social engineering," said Kevin Tian, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Doppel. "Historically, the complexity of the Japanese language created a 'language firewall' for many global threat actors. AI is rapidly eroding that advantage, making it easier to produce convincing Japanese-language impersonations and launch targeted campaigns at scale. Hideki's experience building trusted cybersecurity businesses in Japan will be essential as we deepen our investment in the market and help organizations adapt to this evolving threat landscape." Doppel's Japanese honeypot project was designed to capture phishing activity targeting local users directly. The data gives the company a closer view of how attackers build campaigns around familiar consumer and business touchpoints. That intelligence is also informing Doppel's local strategy as it builds out its team and customer base. Elsewhere in the business, Ofir Ronen recently joined as Senior Vice President of Customer Success. Josh Bartolomie, who leads threat intelligence at Doppel, linked the research to the company's expansion in Japan. "Japan's phishing ecosystem is highly localized, creating important gaps in how threats are traditionally detected," said Josh Bartolomie. "By observing attacks directly within the target environment, we can help organizations identify and disrupt campaigns earlier. I'm excited to partner with Hideki to bring these vital insights to customers across Japan and help them strengthen their defenses against an evolving threat landscape."