About Us

Portnox is a pure-play network access control vendor. Everyday, hundreds of companies around the world rely on Portnox for network visibility, access control, risk monitoring and more.

Who We Are

The connected world is evolving, creating more complexity and challenges for today’s organizations to accommodate an ever-changing landscape of users, devices and locations. As the variety and complexity grows, the challenge to secure the corporate network while maintaining policy and compliance amplifies. Portnox delivers complete network access control, visibility, management and policy compliance to ensure today’s complex networks run smoothly and securely.

What We Do

Portnox’s NAC solutions deliver best of breed network access control capabilities to organizations of all shapes and sizes. Our software speaks directly and natively with all existing switches, wireless access controllers, routers and firewalls to get complete visibility of all devices the minute they connect to the network. – no matter if they’re managed or unmanaged devices. Portnox’s NAC solutions can be deployed rapidly across any network environment, regardless of size and scale.

2022

Portnox closes $22 million Series A with Elsewhere Partners.

2021

Portnox wins award for “Cutting Edge NAC” in 9th Annual Global InfoSec Awards at RSAC 2021.

2020

Portnox achieves a Microsoft Gold “Cloud Platform” competency.

2019

Portnox wins MSPWorld Conference award for “Top Vendor.”

2018

Portnox wins the CyberSecurity Excellence, CDM, lnfoSecurity Product Guide & lnterop ID awards.

2017

Portnox CLEAR hits the market as the first cloud-native NAC.

2015

Co-founder Ofer Amitai named CEO. Portnox selected by Network World’s “Clear Choice Test” as the top NAC vendor.

2014

North American headquarters opens in New York, NY.

2013

Portnox named one of the top 10 fastest-growing tech companies in Deloitte’s “Technology Fast 50” report.

2011

Portnox CORE extends support to VPN & receives NISASecure certification.

2010

Portnox CORE introduces endpoint risk posture assessment & remediation capabilities.

2009

Portnox extends support across wired & wireless networks.

2008

Amdocs becomes first customer to deploy Portnox CORE.

2007

Portnox officially founded by Ofer Amitai, ldan Kuperman, Nir Aran, Ben Kapuler. First patent granted.

Leadership

CEO

Denny LeCompte

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As CEO, Denny is responsible for Portnox's day-to-day operations, including setting the strategic direction of the company. Denny has over 20 years experience in infrastructure and cyber security software. Prior to joining Portnox, Denny held executive leadership roles at leading IT management and security firms, including SolarWinds and AlienVault. Denny holds a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Rice University.

CTO & Co-Founder

Ofer Amitai

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COO & Co-Founder

Idan Kuperman

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Idan has over 15 years of experience in professional services, DevOps, customer support and sales engineering. Among other responsibilities, Idan ensures that customers and OEM partners receive the resources, services and support they need. His efforts are centered on maximizing the value our customers gain from the relationship with Portnox. Mr. Kuperman holds an M.B.A in Marketing and B.A in Computer Science and Accounting from Tel Aviv University, Israel.

VP Products

Tomer Shemer-Buchbut

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Tomer leads Portnox product portfolio. Tomer has 17 years of experience in designing and launching large scale enterprise products. Prior to joining Portnox, Tomer led the product team in Verint’s cyber security group, responsible for protecting large organizations from advanced persistent threats using a unified detection & response platform. / Before that Tomer led the system design group in Motorola Solutions delivering solutions to large scale enterprise organization worldwide. Tomer holds a BA in Computer Science and Psychology from Israel Open University.

VP Sales, North America

Martin Ryan

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Martin is responsible for managing all of the sales activities in the Americas. With over 20 years of executive sales and marketing experience in network security, Martin brings a proven track record of building successful sales and channel teams for start-up to late stage growth companies. Martin’s experience includes building a global sales and channel team at eDMZ Security and leading CyberGuard Firewall as head of world-wide sales & marketing. Mr. Ryan holds an MBA from Nova Southeastern University and BS in Computer Science from University Nevada, Las Vegas.

VP R&D

Yaniv Levy

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Yaniv leads Portnox’s research & development activities. Yaniv has over 20 years of experience in various R&D and management positions. Prior to joining Portnox, Yaniv led the R&D team of Cisco SON business unit, responsible for all engineering activities. Yaniv has vast experience in managing multinational development teams and many years in the networking world. Mr. Levy holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Network systems from BGU.

VP HR

Maya Zilberberg

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As the VP of Human Resources at Portnox, Maya leads people strategy - from recruiting and employee engagement to human resources procedures. Maya has more the twelve years of experience in human resources, including as a leadership and management consultant for a leading consulting group, where she coached managers in improving leadership skills and supported management teams throughout various change processes. Prior to Portnox, Maya also served as part of Marvell Semiconductors human resources and leadership and development teams.

Director of MArketing

Michael Marvin

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Mike leads global cross-channel marketing efforts at Portnox. Over the last ten years, Mike has led marketing and communications teams across a variety of areas in B2B tech, including AdTech and FinTech. Prior to joining Portnox, Mike served as Director of Marketing at Finario, an enterprise financial planning software start-up based in New York. Before that, Mike oversaw content marketing strategy at Viant Technology, a subsidiary of the Meredith Corporation. He holds a B.A. in English and American Studies from Hobart College.

Director of Finance

Vered Netzer

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With more than 20 years of industry experience in finance and business, Vered leads Portnox’s financial operation and reporting. Prior to joining Portnox, Vered served in various financial management positions in technology companies, including at iPoint-Media as a CFO, and at Neustar (former Followap) as Director of Finance. During her time at Neustar, she led the finance department and was part of the acquisition of Followap to Neustar Inc. Vered holds a BA in Accounting and Economics from the Tel-Aviv University.

Awards & Recognitions

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