CYREN Ltd. announced that Lior Kohavi, who has served as Cyren's Chief Technical Officer since joining the company in 2013, has been promoted to the newly created position of Chief Strategy Officer & EVP Advanced Solutions. In this role, Kohavi will drive product strategy and new product innovation. In a related move, the company also announced that Dr. Richard Ford has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Ford joins Cyren from Forcepoint, a well-established vendor in the security industry that was formed in 2016 after the acquisition of Websense by Raytheon. Ford served as Forcepoint's Chief Scientist, and also spent over 20 years as a researcher of anti-malware and advanced threat detection technologies for various companies including IBM Research.