CA has appointed Bilhar (Bill) Mann as senior vice president and general manager of CAs Security Management business unit.

Mann is responsible for continuing to build out CAs portfolio of security management solutions and ensuring they are integrated with CAs other Enterprise IT Management solutions. Specific focus areas are identity and access management (IAM), threat management and security information management (SIM).

Mann has 15 years of experience in security management. He joined CA in 2003 to advance its security management strategy and was instrumental in CAs 2004 acquisition of Netegrity, Inc. a leading provider of IAM software. Later, he was named senior vice president of product development for CAs SIM and threat management product families.

Prior to CA, Mann was director of product management at Volera, a majority-owned subsidiary of Novell. As director of business development at Novells Net Content business unit, he defined a co-hosted content distribution service and established strategic partnerships with key data center hosting companies. Mann joined Novell upon its acquisition of JustOn, Inc., an application service provider (ASP) startup that he co-founded.

Earlier, as director of product management for email and web security firm Worldtalk (now Tumbleweed), Mann launched one of the first integrated web security products for anti-spam, anti-virus, malicious code and content inspection.

Before moving to the United States in 1996, Mann ran a London-based IT consulting firm where he held security-related consulting and engineering positions for major European clients.

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