Looking Ahead: A Conversation with LevelBlue Leaders on What's Next for the Company
One year into our journey, we’re not just celebrating where we’ve been, but where we’re going. LevelBlue was built to deliver a new kind of security service that’s flexible, scalable, and meets all our customers’ evolving needs.
As we look to the future, our sights are set on accelerating innovation, expanding the power of our partnerships, and positioning cybersecurity as a strategic enabler, not just a technical solution.
To mark this moment, hear from members of LevelBlue to learn what’s next for the company, what excites them about the road ahead, and how their teams are shaping the future of cybersecurity.
Theresa Lanowitz, Chief Evangelist
Theresa Lanowitz is a global influencer and respected leader known for her deep and diverse experience in cybersecurity. With a distinguished career in the technology industry, she has held influential roles at companies including Gartner, Borland, Taligent, and Sun Microsystems, significantly influencing application security and emerging technologies. She’s also a frequent speaker at major industry conferences and a go-to source for forward-looking insights on high-tech trends and technologies and the evolving threat landscape.
As the driving force behind LevelBlue’s thought leadership research initiatives, Theresa leads the development of research that helps leaders anticipate and adapt. Most recently, she introduced the 2025 LevelBlue Futures Report: Cyber Resilience and Business Impact, which provides new research into enterprise cyber resilient strategies, AI-readiness, and software supply chain visibility.
You can watch her discuss key takeaways from the Futures Report, including the five characteristics of a cyber resilient organization and trends in the cybersecurity market, in this video.
Rakesh Shah, Vice President of Product Management
Rakesh Shah is a seasoned product leader with deep expertise in cybersecurity, network architecture, and enterprise software. Rakesh brings a wealth of experience, including leadership positions at Forcepoint and Arbor Networks. As Vice President of Product Management at LevelBlue, he oversees our threat, endpoint, and DDoS portfolios. He plays a key role in shaping LevelBlue’s product roadmap, growing the service portfolio, and driving go-to-market strategy. With a strong focus on marketplace innovation, Rakesh ensures that customers have access to scalable, effective solutions that address today’s most pressing security challenges.
In the following video, Rakesh outlines key areas of product innovation coming in the year ahead—from simplifying managed service offerings to modernizing delivery through LevelBlue’s software platform. This includes a streamlined good, better, best service tiering model to make offerings easier to understand, more consistent, and scalable for our customers.
Tawnya Lancaster, Director of Product Marketing and Market Research
Tawnya Lancaster is a strategic marketing leader with deep expertise in cybersecurity services and global market dynamics. As Head of Product Marketing, Research, and Customer Insights at LevelBlue, she leads go-to-market strategy across the company’s cybersecurity portfolio, including consulting, managed services, and our USM Anywhere platform. Tawnya works closely with LevelBlue’s top technology suppliers to launch co-operative initiatives that address the most pressing challenges in both the public and private sectors. She brings a unique ability to translate industry trends, including where organizations face their biggest challenges, and how the security market is evolving to support security professionals and align strategy with company goals.
Tawnya recently shared how her team turns market trends and customer insights into impactful go-to-market strategies. She highlights the launch of three new service tiers across our managed detection and response, vulnerability management, and network/cloud security portfolio, designed to give our customers flexibility and greater value.
With leaders like Theresa, Rakesh, and Tawnya at the helm, LevelBlue is positioned not only to grow but to lead. Their expertise, vision, and dedication are driving our next chapter as we help organizations strengthen their cyber resilience, modernize their security operations, and prepare for what’s next. We’re excited for what lies ahead and remain deeply committed to empowering our customers and partners at every step. What comes next will be defined by bold thinking and the leaders guiding us forward.