Infosec firm Proofpoint has won $14m from a former vice president and his new employer after a jury found they had unlawfully used its trade secrets when he moved to the other company. Both his new firm, infosec company Vade, and Olivier Lemarié misappropriated trade secrets relating to Proofpoint subsidiary Cloudmark’s Trident spear-phishing detection platform, a federal jury in the US state of California ruled late last week.

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