Holly Whalen
Global Vice President of GTM, Cylance
Holly Whalen is the Global Vice President of GTM (Go-to-Market) at Cylance, Inc. Holly is responsible for defining worldwide selling strategies, operations and customer relationships. Her security leadership keeps organizations abreast of the most secure and resilient products and services to thwart advanced cyber attackers. Holly is a Certified Management Accountant, who transitioned her experience as an audit & compliance consultant to deploying enterprise software solutions. Over the past eighteen years, Holly has held leadership roles within the vendor community with ERP, CRM and Security. Holly’s operationally focused education and audit experience provides a concrete understanding of the importance in applying automation to critical and yet challenging manual processes and controls. Her experience indicates that only when solutions are able to automate, is one able to derive a quantifiable Return-on-Investment and a lower Total Cost of Ownership. This has become a challenging area for security leaders, deriving and delivering on quantifiable and measurable value. This challenge became one of the major reasons behind her decision to join the Cylance executive team, the ability to detect (make visible) and mitigate the execution of unknown malware across the infrastructure without relying on traditional methods (Signatures, Heuristics, Reputation) in getting there, providing the opportunity to displace traditional solutions while mitigating operational overhead. Holly has become a trusted advisor to the C-level due to her deep operational understanding and the value that she places in recognizing that acquiring technology is 10% of the process, companies require the value derived from the opportunity to mitigate legacy solutions while automating processes and controls is where the other 90% of the equation lies.
Holly Whalen is the Global Vice President of GTM (Go-to-Market) at Cylance, Inc. Holly is responsible for defining worldwide selling strategies, operations and customer relationships. Her security leadership keeps organizations abreast of the most secure and resilient products and services to thwart advanced cyber attackers. Holly is a Certified Management Accountant, who transitioned her experience as an audit & compliance consultant to deploying enterprise software solutions. Over the past eighteen years, Holly has held leadership roles within the vendor community with ERP, CRM and Security. Holly’s operationally focused education and audit experience provides a concrete understanding of the importance in applying automation to critical and yet challenging manual processes and controls. Her experience indicates that only when solutions are able to automate, is one able to derive a quantifiable Return-on-Investment and a lower Total Cost of Ownership. This has become a challenging area for security leaders, deriving and delivering on quantifiable and measurable value. This challenge became one of the major reasons behind her decision to join the Cylance executive team, the ability to detect (make visible) and mitigate the execution of unknown malware across the infrastructure without relying on traditional methods (Signatures, Heuristics, Reputation) in getting there, providing the opportunity to displace traditional solutions while mitigating operational overhead. Holly has become a trusted advisor to the C-level due to her deep operational understanding and the value that she places in recognizing that acquiring technology is 10% of the process, companies require the value derived from the opportunity to mitigate legacy solutions while automating processes and controls is where the other 90% of the equation lies.
