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Binary Defense Announces New Leadership Appointments to Accelerate Growth and Strategic Initiatives in 2025

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The analyst-recognized MDR leader announced an expanded leadership team, critical security innovations, advanced research and new industry alliances in 2024.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Binary Defense, the trusted Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and enterprise defense provider, is positioned for exceptional growth in 2025, fueled by strategic leadership appointments and the enhanced capabilities of its innovative product offerings. Despite industry challenges in 2024, the company’s strong executive team, customer commitment and award-winning threat detection capabilities delivered record achievements in sales, strategic alliances, and research and development.

Binary Defense delivers robust protection through early detection and remediation of advanced threats. Poised for significant growth in 2025, the company is set to unveil major updates to its MDR platform in the coming months.

Demand for Binary Defense’s core services — including MDR, threat hunting, phishing response and digital risk protection — has surged as corporate security teams face escalating threats from ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) campaigns, AI-driven social engineering, supply chain attacks and geopolitically motivated actors.

As part of the continued success and growth at Binary Defense, significant investments continue to be made in the areas of executive leadership, threat research and threat hunting teams, and new security technologies for early detection and remediation.

“Binary Defense has achieved remarkable success over the last year, driven by our cutting-edge capabilities and unwavering commitment to customer success,” said David Kennedy, Co-Founder and Chief Hacking Officer of Binary Defense. “During this time, the company launched several critical security innovations, including AI-powered threat detection and managed deception. With the momentum we’ve built in 2024, we are prepared to tackle this dynamic cyber threat ecosystem head-on and empower our clients with even stronger defenses in 2025.”

Expanded Leadership Team

A top-notch leadership team has been key to Binary Defense’s strong momentum. Over the past year, the company boosted its executive ranks with several strategic appointments, including:

Kris Wayman, Field CTO: For over a decade, Kris has led critical efforts in threat hunting, attack prevention and tackling complex security challenges, along with key roles at managed and cloud service providers. At Binary Defense, he leverages his expertise to understand customers’ unique security needs and deliver tailored solutions to protect their critical assets.

Moe Askar, Senior Vice President of Channel and Alliances: With extensive expertise in cybersecurity and strategic partnerships from his time as Vice President at Sophos, Moe is focused on positioning Binary Defense as the go-to partner for tackling complex cybersecurity challenges.

Nick Sorenson, Vice President of Marketing: A seasoned cybersecurity marketing leader with 15 years of industry experience, Nick has guided the go-to-market strategies and brand building for multiple pure-play MDR providers. In his new role, he is driving efforts to amplify Binary Defense’s market presence and influence.

This strategic expansion underscores Binary Defense’s commitment to strengthening its leadership and market presence. OJ Cherry, Chief Sales Officer, emphasized the significance of these additions: “I’m seriously pumped to welcome this incredible crew to Binary Defense! This is a huge moment for us, and these leaders are exactly who we need to share the Binary Defense story. All three have amazing experience and talent but most importantly they are truly good people who care. They care about the message, the Channel and our customers. Big moves ahead, and this is just the beginning!”

Product & Research Milestones

Binary Defense introduced a suite of innovative product updates and advanced capabilities, specifically engineered to counter the latest and most pressing cyber threats targeting business networks.

“Binary Defense has always been known for having strong technical capabilities and success stopping adversaries. Now customers also have the benefit of seamless integration with Binary Defense Platform as part of the service, with the added protection of the BDVision Agent that stops attacks where other technologies fall short,” said Jason Vest, Chief Technology Officer. The company enhanced BDVision, its cutting-edge MDR Agent, with AI-driven threat detection, managed deception and EDR bypass detection. BD also launched MDR Plus, featuring patent-pending malware disruption and seamless telemetry configurability for real-time threat intelligence updates, along with the Binary Defense Platform, a centralized interface that improves visibility, simplifies customer consumption of MDR services integrating seamlessly with third-party tools including EDR and SIEM.

It also launched ARC Labs, an advanced research group focused on identifying emerging threats and providing actionable intelligence. Within months, ARC Labs uncovered a China-Nexus Threat Actor exploiting AIX servers in a shadow IT exploitation campaign targeting the U.S. aerospace supply chain.

Industry Recognition

As a leading MDR service provider, the company received several analyst recognitions, including: A Notable Provider in Forrester’s Managed Detection and Response Services Landscape, Q3 2024, and Representative Vendor in Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response for the sixth consecutive year. It was also a finalist in the Trust Award category for Best Threat Detection Technology at the 2024 SC Awards and featured in the MES Midmarket 100 list for its cutting-edge MDR solution.

For the fifth year running, Binary Defense ranked on the Inc. 5000 list, securing No. 54 in Security and No. 66 in Ohio among America’s fastest-growing private companies. Additional honors include Top Workplaces 2024 recognition from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, along with multiple 2024 Culture Excellence Awards from Energage.

Partnerships and Alliances

Binary Defense secured key partnerships with Aon as its exclusive MDR provider for SMEs and Fortress SRM to deliver enhanced cybersecurity services to mid-market and small enterprises.

It also reinforced its commitment to better cybersecurity in professional sports through its ongoing partnership with the Cleveland Browns (featured on CNBC) and a new sponsorship of PGA TOUR golfer Michael Kim as its official Brand Ambassador for 2024–2025.

Looking Ahead to 2025

With an attacker-focused strategy, powered by expert SOC analysts, threat hunters and counterintelligence teams, Binary Defense delivers robust protection through early detection and remediation of advanced threats. Poised for significant growth in 2025, the company is set to unveil major updates to its MDR platform in the coming months.

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ABOUT BINARY DEFENSE

Binary Defense is a trusted leader in security operations, supporting companies of all sizes to proactively monitor, detect and respond to cyberattacks. Recognized by top analyst firms, the company offers a personalized Open XDR approach to Managed Detection and Response, advanced Threat Hunting, Digital Risk Protection, Phishing Response, and Incident Response services, helping customers mature their security program efficiently and effectively based on their unique risks and business needs.

With a world-class 24/7 SOC, deep domain expertise in cyber, and award-winning technology, hundreds of companies across every industry have entrusted Binary Defense to protect their business operations. Binary Defense gives companies actionable insights within minutes not hours, the confidence in their program to be resilient to ever-changing threats, and the time back that matters most to their business. Binary Defense is also the Trusted Cybersecurity Partner of the Cleveland Browns and partners with PGA TOUR players. For more information, visit our website, check out our blog, or follow us on LinkedIn.

Media Contact

Ryan Platten, Binary Defense, 1 800-246-2792, ryan.platten@binarydefense.com, https://www.binarydefense.com/

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Ant Digital Technologies CTO: The Agent Economy’s Four Fault Lines Demand a Ground-Up Infrastructure Redesign

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HONG KONG, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On April 20, Ant Digital Technologies introduced its architectural vision for the agent economy at Hong Kong Web3 Festival — the “4R Full-Stack Architecture,” comprising four layers: Agentic Runtime, Payment Rails, Agent Registry, and Root Infrastructure — aimed at providing AI agents with foundational technical infrastructure covering identity, payments, risk control, and regulatory compliance.

In her keynote, Dr. Yan Ying, CTO of Ant Digital Technologies identified four fundamental fault lines in the current foundations of the agent economy: execution failures arising from prompt logic vulnerabilities, an accountability vacuum caused by AI’s lack of verifiable identity, transactional barriers stemming from payment gateways designed around human principals, and collaboration risks that emerge when unfamiliar agents cannot establish mutual trust. “This cannot be resolved by patching software,” she stated. “It requires a ground-up redesign at the infrastructure layer.”

The core product of the Agentic Runtime layer is DT Claw, which embeds the CARLI safety model to enforce behavioral constraints on agents at the execution level, supports multi-model compatibility and financial-grade compliance standards, and is designed to ensure that every AI operation is controllable, auditable, and recoverable.

The Payment Rails layer establishes a native on-chain payment channel that integrates agent-driven intelligent decision-making with verifiable credential chain technology, enabling precise identification of payment intent and end-to-end security while delivering full transaction transparency and immutability. For high-frequency micropayment scenarios, the platform builds a native instant settlement network supporting cross-chain, multi-asset seamless transfer and intelligent routing, significantly improving capital turnover efficiency. Additionally, by providing a standardized developer toolchain and a frictionless wallet integration experience, the solution substantially lowers both development barriers and end-user adoption costs — forming a payment closed-loop that balances financial-grade security with best-in-class usability.

The Agent Registry layer issues on-chain identities to each agent based on the DID (Decentralized Identifier) standard and ERC-8004, ensuring every instance of inter-agent collaboration is traceable and verifiable. The Root Infrastructure layer serves as the architectural foundation, leveraging Jovay Layer2 to achieve sub-120-millisecond transaction confirmation in support of AI micropayments, and combining ZKVM technology to enable off-chain computation with on-chain verification — resolving the computational trust problem inherent in the AI economy. As Yan Ying put it, “Root Infrastructure uses blockchain and privacy-preserving computation to provide agents with a tamper-proof contract execution environment. Even two agents with no prior relationship can establish trust through code and transact with confidence.”

AI is currently progressing from the Chat phase through the Action phase and into the era of the agent economy. Yan Ying argued that the defining transformation of this third phase lies not in AI becoming more intelligent, but in AI beginning to hold assets and exercise transactional authority. She noted that over the past decade-plus, Ant Digital Technologies has accumulated deep engineering expertise across financial-grade security, privacy computing, blockchain, and compliance systems — and that the 4R Architecture represents a ground-up research and development effort built upon that foundation.

 

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Candid Appoints Andrew Shaw as Chief Product & Technology Officer to Accelerate Platform Growth

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Seasoned product leader joins from OLX to scale Candid’s Live Marketing™ AI infrastructure across the UK and beyond

LONDON and AMSTERDAM, April 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Candid, the platform-based advertising, marketing and communications group operating across the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, has today appointed Andrew Shaw as Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO), effective immediately.

Working at group level, Shaw assumes responsibility for Candid’s product strategy, technology infrastructure and the scaling of its agency brands and capabilities. His appointment comes at a pivotal moment for the group, with strong and growing market demand for Candid’s proprietary Live Marketing™ platform — an integrated, AI-powered infrastructure spanning strategy, campaigns, media and creative. Shaw’s immediate mandate is to accelerate its development and bring it to enterprise scale.

Shaw joins with a strong international pedigree in product leadership and technology innovation. He was most recently Director of Product at OLX in Amsterdam, and prior to that held a comparable senior product role at adidas in Germany. Originally from South Africa, Shaw spent over five years in Germany before relocating to the Netherlands four years ago, where he has built deep expertise working within complex, international technology organisations.

In his new role, Shaw will work across Candid’s group of agencies and brands — building the product and technology foundations that underpin the group’s client proposition and ensuring the Candid platform maintains its competitive edge in a fast-evolving market.

Andrew Shaw, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Candid:

“My remit is clear: to take Candid’s Live Marketing™ infrastructure from proven technology to a truly differentiated, enterprise-grade and scalable platform — one that holds its competitive advantage in a market that is moving fast.”

Gerard Ghazarian, Founder & President, Candid:

“Andrew brings exactly the depth of product and technology leadership that this moment calls for. He will be instrumental in shaping our product strategy and in building the technology organisation we need to realise our ambitions — in the UK, the Netherlands, and beyond.”

Shaw’s appointment represents a significant step in Candid’s continued investment in its technology capabilities and leadership team. As the group scales across its agency brands and geographies, this appointment signals an unambiguous commitment to building a robust, future-proof platform that delivers tangible, measurable value for clients and brand partners across the portfolio.

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NX Group to Acquire All Shares in Metro Supply Chain Group of Canada, Turning It into Subsidiary

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TOKYO, April 21, 2026 /CNW/ — NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC. (hereafter “NX Group”) has reached an agreement to acquire all shares in Metro Supply Chain Group Inc. (“Metro Supply Chain Group”) based in Montreal, Canada, and entered into a share purchase agreement, dated April 17, 2026.

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The transaction values Metro Supply Chain Group at CAD1.8 billion (approximately 207.0 billion yen) on an enterprise value basis, representing the largest acquisition in NX Group’s history. In addition, an earnout of up to CAD400 million (approximately 46.0 billion yen) may be payable to the sellers, contingent on the company meeting certain financial targets as defined in the share purchase agreement.

Metro Supply Chain Group has a strong operational footprint across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, providing third-party logistics (3PL) services to a broad range of industries, including consumer goods, automotive, manufacturing and healthcare. Through this acquisition, NX Group expects to significantly expand its presence in the North American market and enhance its end-to-end logistics capabilities. The transaction represents a pivotal step toward accelerating NX Group’s long-term vision — set out in its management plan “NX Group Management Plan 2028 Dynamic Growth 2.0” — of becoming “a logistics company with a strong presence in global markets.”

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NX Group official website: https://www.nipponexpress.com/ 

NX Group’s official LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nippon-express-group/ 

 

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