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eadquartered in Milpitas,
California, SonicWall is a Silicon
Valley firewall and cybersecurity
solutions company originally
founded in 1991. Acquired by
Dell in 2012 and later sold as a subsidiary to
Francisco Partners and Elliott Management
in 2016, the company’s history is one
punctuated by award-winning innovation,
deft stakeholder management and prescient
industry development. At a time when the
rules for enterprise cybersecurity are being
rewritten at an unprecedented rate by
remote working and an ever-increasingly
digital workplace, these qualities have
proven to be invaluable. Fundamentally,
SonicWall is a company that believes in
embracing change and doesn’t shy away
from investing time, money and energy
into making it happen.
It was this attitude that first enticed Terry
Greer-King, Vice President of SonicWall
EMEA, to join. Beginning his career in the
semiconductors industry during the late ‘70s,
moving through the ‘PC boom’ of the ‘80s,
and then finding himself in the cybersecurity
arena, Greer-King emphasises that the
power of technology to empower, enable
and drive change in society is what motivates
him. “Cybersecurity has been a growing
phenomenon,” he says. “Nowadays, the
threats are much more diverse. If you want
to establish a security infrastructure and not
touch it for five years, you’re going to exposeTerry Greer-King, VP of SonicWall EMEA,
explains the importance of implementing
variable security and risk management
solutions at an architectural level
WRITTEN BY:
WILL GIRLING
PRODUCED BY:
BEN MALTBY
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