Insight Enterprises appointed Valerie Abend as senior vice president today. She will lead the company’s global Cybersecurity Practice across international markets. Abend assumes direct responsibility for Insight’s overarching security strategy. Furthermore, she unifies organizational capabilities to accelerate corporate revenue growth. Her leadership will enhance client defenses across an increasingly complex risk environment.
“Security is fundamental to how our clients operate, innovate, and build long-term resilience,” said Jack Azagury, president and CEO of Insight. “Val has spent her career solving complex cybersecurity and policy challenges across government, financial services, and enterprise technology. Her track record of building world-class practices will be invaluable as we scale our global cybersecurity business and build on the incredible momentum of Insight Managed Exposure Defense.”
Driving Strategic Expansion Across Modern Security Frameworks
Abend brings three decades of executive experience to this expanded role. She previously served as CEO at the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center. There, she directed global strategies confronting emerging artificial intelligence threats. Additionally, she managed supply chain security while collaborating with top AI research labs.
Earlier in her career, Abend worked over eight years as senior managing director at Accenture. She established and guided their Financial Services Security and Cyber Strategy practice during her tenure. Her public sector background includes senior positions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Moreover, she held key roles at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. In these roles, she shaped national banking policies and directed critical infrastructure crisis response. She currently sits on the Cloud Security Alliance Board of Directors. Furthermore, she has testified before the U.S. Congress on systemic cyber risk.
“Cybersecurity has moved far beyond protecting infrastructure. It is now inseparable from how organizations transform, adopt AI, and build resilience,” said Valerie Abend, senior vice president of Insight’s global cybersecurity practice. “Insight has a unique advantage: an unmatched partner ecosystem, world-class engineering talent, and proven offerings like Insight Managed Exposure Defense. I am thrilled to join the team to accelerate our global expansion and help clients turn cyber complexity into business resilience.”
This new executive appointment further bolsters Insight’s uniquely skilled global Cybersecurity Practice, which helps companies fight off relentless cybersecurity attacks in the cloud around the world. Accordingly, company leaders seek a broad protection program that can safeguard their digital assets. The company’s Cybersecurity Practice offers an outstanding suite of defense programs customized for enterprise clients.
Furthermore, the new Insight Managed Exposure Defense product helps companies meet growing corporate requirements related to threat management. Companies are increasingly moving beyond passive mitigation programs to embrace continuous and automated risk exposure management across their enterprise technology stack.
The new product uses proprietary AI-powered tools and automation technologies. As such, cybersecurity professionals can analyze, correlate, and address digital threats at machine speed. In addition, it increases the speed of third-party platform integration in the environment of customers. Under Abend’s leadership, Insight’s global Cybersecurity Practice will enhance these capabilities further. Thus, enterprises can achieve sustained cyber resilience in the modern environment.
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Source: Businesswire
