Trellix appoints Joseph Tal to lead its advanced research centre

Cybersecurity firm Trellix announced on Monday the appointment of cybersecurity veteran Joseph “Yossi” Tal to the role of Senior Vice President for the Trellix Advanced Research Center and General Manager for Trellix Israel. The new research unit was set up in September last year to help customers detect, respond and remediate real-time cybersecurity threats.

The security vendor that was formed in 2021 by merging McAfee Enterprise and FireEye XDR (Extended detection and response) business, said that Tal will report to Trellix chief product officer Aparna Rayasam and lead Trellix’s global team of security analysts, developers and researchers across product research, advanced adversarial resilience, threat intelligence, research engineering, and data science.

“Cyber threats, supply chain, and ransomware attacks are growing in severity and intensity during board meetings. Organisations need holistic global threat intelligence and innovative security solutions to inform the governance and tools organisations they invest in for cyber risk reduction,” said Tal.

“Since its launch last year, Trellix and its Advanced Research Center set a goal to become a leading threat intelligence organisation. They’ve since delivered remarkable threat intelligence and research insights to the global cybersecurity community. I’m excited to join this team of experienced researchers, to shape the trajectory of the Trellix Advanced Research Center to provide even more value for our customers,” he added.

Prior to Trellix, Tal led Citigroup’s Global Cyber Security Innovation Labs practices with research teams in cloud, infrastructure defense, identity and access management, encryption, DLT and crypto networks monitoring, application security, mobile security, original research, and more. 

Earlier in his career, Tal spent 13 years at IBM in the infrastructure security, threat intelligence, and data security business, where he led the worldwide infrastructure security,  X-Force Threat Intelligence and GDPR products offerings. He was also part of the Institute for National Security Studies, Cyber Program and worked with Tel-Aviv University in the Cyber Warfare and IT Security programs. 

Tal holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the College of Management Academic Studies and has participated in multiple executive programs in Boston University, Columbia University, Harvard, and Wharton. 

In September last year, the California-based company appointed Kim Anstett as its new chief information officer (CIO) to head the overall execution of technology strategy to drive efficiency, flexibility and innovation across the business.

In November 2022, Trellix has appointed Sam Henderson as managing director of channels and alliances business for its Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) market. The company said that Henderson, based in Singapore, will play an integral part in overseeing the region following the news of a new unified partner program, Trellix Xtend, to be rolled out in 2023.