SAN DIEGO, CA—(Oct 16, 2012) – Threatstop, Inc. today announced the hire of Christopher Lee as Vice President of Sales, effective immediately.

Lee comes to ThreatSTOP from Virtual Armor, where he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing. He brings more than 10 years of experience as a technology executive and sales leader with a proven track record of progressive impact and results.

In his role at ThreatSTOP, Lee will bring his extensive sales experience to ThreatSTOP’s product and sales teams to help continue its leadership in protecting networks against the most serious information security problem today - malware and botnets.

“I'm excited to have Chris join our team,” says CEO Tom Byrnes. “Chris strengthens our team by bringing seasoned, serially successful, sales leadership. Chris is a true entrepreneurial sales leader who has successfully built multiple sales teams that have taken companies from startup to multi-million $/year sales. We look forward to having him build on the success we have achieved so far, and take ThreatSTOP to the next level.”

“I'm excited to join the ThreatSTOP team," says Lee. "ThreatSTOP is uniquely positioned in the marketplace to solve real problems faced by all companies today. There are few alternatives that offer the flexibility like ThreatSTOP."

About ThreatSTOP

ThreatSTOP is the developer of ThreatSTOP Botnet Defense Cloud, an IP reputation-based cloud service that enables firewalls to block botnet and malware traffic to and from networks. The service prevents data theft, increases network “goodput”, reduces network load and attack surface. It is deployed on customers’ existing equipment and can be activated within an hour without the expense, complexity and time delay of hardware upgrades, network reconfigurations, retraining or manual updates. Founded in 2009, ThreatSTOP is based in San Diego, CA. For more information, visit http://www.threatstop.com.