MALAYSIA, February 9, 2022 ─ Fortinet®, a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced that Dickson Woo has been appointed as Country Manager for Fortinet Malaysia.
Woo brings three decades of extensive experience in large computing technologies and the services industry. Woo will take responsibility for business operations across Malaysia and will help customers with the development of their cybersecurity strategies to protect against advanced threats and maintain business continuity.
“We are excited to have Dickson Woo join the management team for Malaysia,” said Peerapong Jongvibool, Fortinet’s Regional Vice President for Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, “As the threat landscape continues to expand, organizations are increasingly consolidating to a platform approach that converges security and networking for the best protection at networking speeds. Fortinet calls this convergence, Security-driven networking. Dickson will work with our customers to ensure that they adopt the best security strategies to enable their digital business.”
“In today’s digital economy, sophisticated threats and the move to remote-working have created an extremely complex environment. It is critical that security is not an afterthought as organizations accelerate their digital initiatives. I look forward to working closely with enterprises to protect their businesses and data with Fortinet’s security MESH platform approach while growing Fortinet’s market share in the process,” said Dickson Woo, Country Manager for Malaysia, Fortinet.
Woo is based in Kuala Lumpur, and held senior roles in NTT, Microsoft, Dell, Oracle and IBM.
