7. Wendy Thomas, Secureworks

Secureworks has confirmed layoffs impacting 9% of its workforce — more than 200 employees. The company is shifting to a “smaller, more focused team.” CEO Wendy Thomas made waves when she said that this year marks a turning point in the company’s business, and not only because of layoffs.

“We reached the end-of-life of Counter Threat Platform (CTP) for most of our customers, and we begin fiscal 2024 with our core business on [cloud-native enterprise security platform] Taegis together with strategic consulting to create better security outcomes for our customers,” Thomas said. “Since we began this journey over five years ago, we’ve evolved how we work and organize our teams to ensure our customers’ success globally. Now, we are making additional changes to position our business for long-term success.”

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