Prevalent adds engineering, threat intel experts to senior team

Warren-based Prevalent Inc., a third-party risk management and vendor threat intelligence company, announced it has appointed Jared Feinberg as senior director of threat intelligence and Brian Harvell to vice president of engineering.Warren-based Prevalent Inc., a third-party risk management and vendor threat intelligence company, announced it has appointed Jared Feinberg as senior director of threat intelligence and Brian Harvell to vice president of engineering.

“The proliferation of third-party data breaches puts organizations of all sizes under intense threat. Prevalent is the trusted partner of a substantial and rapidly-increasing percentage of Fortune 100, Fortune 1000 and SMB enterprises determined to curtail their organizations’ risk exposure,” said Norman Menz, Prevalent co-founder and chief technology offier. “Brian and Jared bring exceptional expertise that will help us to further scale and enrich our platform, and elevate the industry’s state-of-the-art in continuous threat intelligence and analysis.”

Harvell was most recently chief information officer and development lead of CMC Inc. Before that he was vice president of product engineering for SevOne and executive director of infrastructure management for Comcast.

Feinberg was most recently with Booz Allen Hamilton leading its open-source intelligence team. Before that, he was with the Office of the Secretary of Defense as a foreign affairs specialist and presidential management fellow.

“I came to know Prevalent when assessing supply risk, and I ultimately selected them as a strategic partner. Prevalent has a completeness of vision and mission around the challenges of supply side risk,” Feinberg said. “This insight, together with its platform, allows us to leverage critical data together to deliver new levels of intelligence, insight and immediacy in continuous threat intelligence.”

“Prevalent is unique in its commitment to and success in advanced, automated third and fourth party risk management across the entire ecosystem of enterprises, vendors and partners. This is a unique opportunity to further advance the industry’s only end-to-end active threat monitoring solution, and help evolve a cohesive threat management community. Clearly, the need has never been greater,” Vice President of Engineering Brian Harvell said.