Obsidian Security has appointed Tom Tokic as its Asia Pacific Regional Executive and Andrew Latham as its Asia Pacific Senior Sales Engineer to drive the company’s growth in the region.
Obsidian Security is expanding its regional presence to accelerate SaaS security deployments for local businesses. This expansion will also enhance support for many of the region’s leading enterprises that already use Obsidian to protect their critical cloud-based applications, including some of Australia’s largest healthcare, financial, and telecommunication providers.
Tokic is based in Canberra, and Latham in Sydney. They will lead Obsidian’s expansion across the Asia Pacific region, with Australia serving as the strategic hub for this growth.
Obsidian tackles the blind spot of SaaS security. The company shields SaaS applications from identity threats, third and fourth-party integrations and data movement risks, and automates SaaS security posture management and compliance.
Obsidian’s latest investment in Australia will help accelerate SaaS security adoption for regional businesses while deepening the company’s strong ties to the local market, established by its Australian co-founder and former Telstra CISO, Glenn Chisholm.
“Australian businesses are often at the forefront of cyber security due to their strong focus on protecting users and data,” said Chisholm, Chief Product Officer at Obsidian Security. “With more business-critical information migrating to SaaS every day, these applications have become the new frontline for cyber threats.”
“However, the implicit trust many organisations have in their SaaS providers to configure the applications for them often leaves sensitive data unknowingly exposed,” he added. “Unawareness of the shared responsibility model can leave SaaS applications unsecured, posing a huge risk to business as well as individual data.”
Tokic and Latham brought over 20 years of cybersecurity experience to Obsidian. Most recently, they built the LogScale business at CrowdStrike in APJ. Since starting at Obsidian, they have actively invested in the Australian market, launching a local partner program with the foundation partners CyberCX, Baidam, and The Missing Link.
