Varonis Appoints Maheswaran Shamugasundaram as Country Manager for India

Varonis Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNS), a pioneer in data security and analytics, announced the appointment of Maheswaran Shamugasundaram as its first Country Manager for India. This new role will be responsible for developing Varonis' business, overseeing operations, and delivering the company's advanced data-first solutions to organizations throughout India.

Maheswaran brings more than two decades of business development and sales leadership experience to this new position. Before Varonis, he was the Regional Director at HelpSystems. Earlier, Maheswaran was the Regional Director at Titus. He spent more than a decade at Forcepoint, where he led a team of consultants driving business growth for the company's technology solutions across the Asia-Pacific region.

"We are extremely pleased to welcome Maheswaran to lead our business development initiatives in India," said Scott Leach, Vice President of APAC, Varonis. "Maheswaran's vast experience and deep industry knowledge of the security landscape will be invaluable assets as we look to expand our partner and customer network throughout the country."

"Cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated and elusive — and that makes securing data at its roots critical," said Maheswaran Shamugasundaram, Country Manager, India. "I look forward to building Varonis' presence throughout India as a data-first brand that companies remember and trust when they think of safeguarding their critical data from today's advanced cyber threats."

Varonis is a pioneer in data security and analytics, fighting a different battle than conventional cybersecurity companies. Varonis focuses on protecting enterprise data: sensitive files and emails; confidential customer, patient, and employee data; financial records; strategic and product plans; and other intellectual property. The Varonis Data Security Platform detects cyber threats from both internal and external actors by analyzing data, account activity, and user behavior; prevents and limits disaster by locking down sensitive and stale data; and efficiently sustains a secure state with automation. Varonis products address additional important use cases including data protection, data governance, Zero Trust, compliance, data privacy, classification, and threat detection and response. Varonis started operations in 2005 and has customers spanning leading firms in the financial services, public, healthcare, industrial, insurance, energy and utilities, technology, consumer and retail, media and entertainment, and education sectors.