CYREN (NASDAQ: CYRN) today announced that Hesham Eassa has joined the company as vice president of global cloud operations.

Eassa brings over 25 years of experience to CYREN, having most recently served as vice president of global cloud operations at Zscaler for the past three years. Prior to Zscaler, he served more than 12 years in senior management roles for other SaaS-related companies, including Callidus Software, Qualys, Macrovision (now Rovi) and WebEx Communications (now Cisco WebEx). Eassa is responsible for the infrastructure and operation of CYREN's global security cloud.

"I am very pleased to welcome Hesh, as I believe his proven expertise in building globally distributed real-time cloud services will allow us to rapidly scale and expand our business," said Lior Samuelson, CEO and Chairman of the Board at CYREN.

"Having worked with a number of leading SaaS companies over the years, I understand what it takes to build and run a globally-distributed security cloud," Eassa said. "CYREN's vision of delivering a broad set of security services via the cloud is game changing, and I am excited to help deliver on this vision."

Eassa is based in CYREN's Sunnyvale, California office.

About CYREN

CYREN (NASDAQ and TASE: CYRN) protects more than 600 million users against cyber attacks and data breaches through its cloud-based web, email, mobile and endpoint security solutions. Relied upon by many of the world's largest technology companies such as Dell, Google, McAfee and Microsoft, CYREN offers enterprise-focused security as a service (SecaaS) solutions as well as embedded solutions for software and security providers. CYREN's global cloud security platform processes more than 17 billion daily transactions and uses innovative zero-day protection technology to proactively block over 130 million threats each day. Learn more at www.cyren.com.