eEye Digital Security has shaken up its top management, firing chief executive officer Ross Brown less than six months after promoting him to the top slot.
Kamal Arafeh, who previously managed eEye's sales operations, will be the new CEO. The rest of the management team — CTO Marc Maiffret and CFO John Gardiner — remains intact.
Brown joined eEye in 2005 as COO after a stint at Citrix Systems (vice president of Worldwide Channels and Operations) and moved up to the CEO slot in October 2006. Brown, who is an outspoken blogger, could not be reached for comment.
eEye, a brand-name security research firm that regularly discovers software vulnerabilities, rakes in about $12 million a year from sales of the Retina and Blink line of intrusion prevention products.
Brown's ouster comes less than 24 hours after the release of eEye's Blink Personal Internet Security 3.0, with an added twist of anti-virus technology and a touch of the freebies.
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