Scott Alridge, CLO and corporate secretary of IronNet. Courtesy photo.IronNet Cybersecurity Taps Tech Vet Scott Alridge as Chief Legal Officer
Alridge has served executive and in-house roles with Bronto Software, NetSuite Inc., Oracle Corp., ChannelAdvisor and IBM.
July 31, 2019 at 03:40 PM
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Veteran in-house tech lawyer Scott Alridge has joined IronNet Cybersecurity as chief legal officer and corporate secretary.
Alridge reports to company co-CEOs Bill Welch and Keith Alexander, a retired four-star U.S. Army general, former director of the U.S. National Security Agency and founding commander of the Defense Department's U.S. Cyber Command, according to an announcement Wednesday.
Alexander founded IronNet in 2014 in Fulton, Maryland. The firm offers a network traffic analysis platform, dubbed “IronDefense,” to detect cyber threats and a collective cyber defense product, “IronDome,” that is based on behavioral intelligence.
During the past five years, Alridge has filled executive and in-house leadership roles with Bronto Software, NetSuite Inc. and, most recently, Oracle Corp.
As vice president and general counsel of Bronto, he helped grow the firm's legal department until NetSuite acquired the company. He stayed on as NetSuite's GC of Bronto and VP for the Durham, North Carolina, area until Oracle acquired NetSuite in 2016. Alridge helped Oracle establish a legal hub in Durham while serving as the company's senior managing counsel.
Now, as CLO and corporate secretary for IronNet, Alridge will oversee the company's global legal affairs and serve as a member of its executive committee.
“Considering the evolving cyber threats that companies face, those in the cybersecurity world must continue to evolve in tandem. At IronNet, we are helping our customers defend themselves through our cutting-edge collective defense system,” he said on Wednesday.
“As CLO of IronNet, staying up on the innovation and the interplay with an evolving legal and regulatory landscape and delivering such service with ethical integrity is of utmost importance to me and to the company,” he added.
A graduate of the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, Alridge began his career as a contracts and negotiations specialist for IBM Corp. He later served as general counsel, secretary and VP of new and emerging markets for ChannelAdvisor Corp., an e-commerce company, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Alridge's new boss, Alexander, described him as an “experienced leader” with “global perspective and experience.”
He added Alridge's “unique experience in many legal, international, and corporate development arenas makes him the right executive to help IronNet continue our aggressive growth.”
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