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Cyderes appoints industry veteran Lana Knop as Chief Product Officer. Former SentinelOne and Splunk product leader brings nearly 30 years of global enterprise security experience to managed cybersecurity services organization. January 21, 2026 09:00 ET | Source: Cyderes KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Cyderes, a global managed cybersecurity services partner engineered to defend against today's relentless threat landscape, today announced the appointment of Lana Knop as Chief Product Officer (CPO). In this role, Knop will be responsible for growing and scaling the organization's product and services portfolio following its recent acquisition of Lucidum and developing a comprehensive roadmap that deepens the company's commitment to driving incremental value for its clients and partners. "We are thrilled to welcome Lana to Cyderes, as she is the perfect person to lead our next phase of product development," said Connor Mckenzie, Chief Strategy Officer, Cyderes. "She brings valuable leadership experience at the intersection of products and services and has launched transformational solutions at some of the world's top cybersecurity firms. We are excited for Lana to join our executive leadership team and usher in key innovations that will build upon the unparalleled value we deliver, helping the organizations that rely on us solve their most difficult cybersecurity challenges." Knop brings more than 25 years of security product leadership experience to Cyderes. She most recently served as the Vice President of Product Management at SentinelOne, where she was charged with executing the company's vision across the endpoint portfolio while launching identity and vulnerability management product offerings during a period of sustained hypergrowth. Prior to her time at SentinelOne, Knop spent nearly two years in executive roles leading Product Management at Splunk, Corelight, McAfee, Norton, and Symantec, where Knop spent 14 years and helped the global cybersecurity leader create innovative security products designed to solve the most pervasive problems facing enterprise security analysts at scale. "The business trajectory ahead of Cyderes makes this an incredibly compelling opportunity," said Knop. "Cyderes offers the contextualized visibility security teams need to defend against new and emerging threats, and that is essential to staying ahead of threat actors. I am looking forward to partnering with the leadership team and working closely with clients to ensure our product offerings meet and exceed their expectations moving forward." Knop will also be tasked with leveraging her deep product and service expertise to expand the company's AI strategy, with a focus on practical, secure adoption. By integrating Lucidum's entity fabric, Cyderes provides a high-fidelity data foundation that ensures AI agents operate on complete, accurate, and continuously validated information. This empowers clients and partners to safely deploy agentic AI across security environments, allowing Cyderes to support organizations as they scale AI-driven operations. For more information about Cyderes, please visit https://www.cyderes.com/ About Cyderes Cyderes is a global managed cybersecurity services partner dedicated to defending against today's relentless threatscape. Specialized in delivering Identity and Access Management (IAM), Exposure Management, and risk programs that stop active threats fast with Managed Detection and Response (MDR) that works with existing security tools, augmented by AI and driven by seasoned operators. Cyderes enables enterprises to anticipate threats and respond with speed, precision, and confidence, helping them Be Everyday Ready(TM). Media Contact: Sarah Graham Marketbridge for Cyderes [email protected] Release Summary Cyderes announced the appointment of Lana Knop as Chief Product Officer (CPO). Company Profile Cyderes Cyderes is a global managed cybersecurity services partner dedicated to defending against today's relentless threatscape. Specialized in delivering Identity and Access Management (IAM), Exposure Management, and risk programs that stop active threats fast with Managed Detection and Response (MDR... Location: Kansas City, Mo. Industry: Software & Computer Services

Cyderes acquires Lucidum to strengthen identity-aware security data foundation. Managed cybersecurity services company Cyderes LLC today announced that it has acquired security data fabric and entity intelligence firm Lucidum Inc. for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2020, Lucidum offers a security data fabric platform that is designed to give organizations a comprehensive, real-time view of their digital environment. The company has an aim to eliminate the blind spots that arise when security, information technology operations and cloud teams work with fragmented, siloed data. Lucidum ingests data from hundreds of disparate sources across an enterprise, including cloud services, on-premises systems, identity stores and endpoint telemetry and normalizes it into a unified, continuously updated graph of assets, identities, relationships and configurations. The "data fabric" approach moves beyond simple aggregation by providing the context and linkage needed for security teams to understand how users, devices, applications and permissions interrelate. Under the hood, Lucidum's platform leverages machine learning, large-scale entity resolution and patented inference techniques that automatically reconcile differences in naming, ownership and classification across systems. The result is a high-fidelity representation of what exists in an organization's digital ecosystem, including previously unknown or unmanaged assets, to allow teams to uncover risks that traditional tools might miss. Lucidum also supports integrations with services from Splunk Inc., Elastic N.V., Chronicle LLC, Sentinel, Sumo Logic Inc. and CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. The acquisition provides Cyderes with a unified, identity-aware foundation that will strengthen its existing solutions while also setting the stage for greater output across existing agentic AI offerings. Lucidum's tech will also support the development of advanced AI-driven remediation workflows for Cyderes clients. "Effective defense requires clarity, consistency and context," said Cyderes Chief Executive Chris Schueler. "Lucidum's data fabric gives us the shared foundation necessary to unify that context across every environment we protect." By making Lucidum the entity fabric across its portfolio, Cyderes says, it's now well-positioned to deliver stronger identity and access management programs, enhanced data-driven exposure management, higher fidelity managed detection and response investigations and AI-driven decision support and agentic automation. Lucidum will continue to support its existing customers, who will now have the option to leverage Cyderes' MDR, IAM, exposure management and broader managed security services on top of the Lucidum data fabric. Coming into its acquisition, Lucidum had raised $19 million across two rounds, according to data from Tracxn. Investors in the company included Point72 Ventures, SVCI and GGV Capital Management. Photo: Lucidum. A message from John Furrier, co-founder of SiliconANGLE: Support its mission to keep content open and free by engaging with theCUBE community. Join theCUBE's Alumni Trust Network, where technology leaders connect, share intelligence and create opportunities. * 15M+ viewers of theCUBE videos, powering conversations across AI, cloud, cybersecurity and more * 11.4k+ theCUBE alumni - Connect with more than 11,400 tech and business leaders shaping the future through a unique trusted-based network. SiliconANGLE Media is a recognized leader in digital media innovation, uniting breakthrough technology, strategic insights and real-time audience engagement. As the parent company of SiliconANGLE, theCUBE Network, theCUBE Research, CUBE365, theCUBE AI and theCUBE SuperStudios - with flagship locations in Silicon Valley and the New York Stock Exchange - SiliconANGLE Media operates at the intersection of media, technology and AI. Founded by tech visionaries John Furrier and Dave Vellante, SiliconANGLE Media has built a dynamic ecosystem of industry-leading digital media brands that reach 15+ million elite tech professionals. Its new proprietary theCUBE AI Video Cloud is breaking ground in audience interaction, leveraging theCUBEai.com neural network to help technology companies make data-driven decisions and stay at the forefront of industry conversations.

Cyderes, a global managed cybersecurity services provider, has acquired Lucidum, a security data fabric and entity intelligence company. The acquisition aims to create a unified, identity-aware foundation to strengthen Cyderes' existing solutions and support AI-driven remediation workflows. Lucidum's data fabric technology addresses a critical challenge in cybersecurity: fragmented data across identity systems, assets, cloud environments and endpoint telemetry. According to Cisco's Security Outcomes Report, over half of security teams cite disconnected data as a top challenge, limiting incident investigation and exposure understanding. The acquisition comes as attackers increasingly use automated reconnaissance and AI to exploit security gaps. Lucidum's platform unifies identity, assets, privileges and exposures into a continuously updated view of an organisation's environment, helping defenders match sophisticated threats.