Rick Leclerc to Join WCA

We are excited to announce that Rick will be joining the WCA team and will be focused on growing our Managed Service - NAC Service as well as additional “as a service” security products.

Whalley Computers is uniquely positioned to be the first Fortinet Reseller / Security Partner to offer a managed FortiNAC service. As Rick states “with experience selling a managed firewall service, with an existing customer base in EDU and Healthcare, with extensive ERate experience, and with relationships with OSHEAN and Thrive, I’m expecting to help WCA build and grow a large set of customers that pay for NACaaS through subscription-based FortiNAC licenses. The flexibility within the FortiNAC platform allows the product to reside in the public cloud or onsite at the customer, and it can run in a virtual environment or on dedicated FortiNAC hardware. Fortinet is excited and committed to work with WCA to make this happen.”

Since the acquisition of Bradford Networks by Fortinet in 2018, Rick Leclerc led the FortiNAC Solution Architect team at Fortinet. Rick focused on FortiNAC’s ability to extend the Fortinet Security Fabric to address the most challenging cyber security issues across any third-party wired or wireless network.? With extensive experience working with resellers, technology partners, and multi-national customers, Rick was responsible for developing innovative FortiNAC security solutions across IoT, Healthcare, Retail, and OT networks.

Prior to joining Fortinet in 2018, Rick co-founded Bradford Networks and served as the Chief Solutions Architect and SE Manager for 19+ years, where he was responsible for strategic technology partnerships and strategic technical account management for the Network Sentry Network Access Control solution.? While at Bradford Networks, he also led the NAC Security as a Service initiative – working with MSP partners to deliver a managed security service for network access control hosted in the public cloud.?

Before founding Bradford networks, Rick worked for Aprisma Management Technologies / Cabletron where he managed the custom engineering development group for over 10 years.? This group was responsible for developing and delivering multi-vendor network management solutions that scaled to manage environments of up to 10 million users / devices. He has more than 30 years of network management and cyber security experience – working with international customers, large enterprise and large educational institutions to translate business requirements into fully deployed security solutions.

Rick holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire, and an MS in Computer Science from the Northeastern University.

Specialties: ?Cybersecurity, Network Access Control, Zero Trust Networking, and Managed Services