Judy Safety appoints Christopher Leach as CISO
Small and medium enterprise cybersecurity companies supplier Judy Safety has appointed 30-year cybersecurity veteran Christopher Leach as CISO. Leach was previously CISO for Financial institution One, which was later acquired by JPMorgan Chase the place he continued within the position. He has additionally held senior positions at Hewlett Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the place he collaborated with CISOs, CTOs, and CIOs on safety methods and rising threats.
Vanta appoints Jadee Hanson as CISO
Belief administration platform Vanta introduced it has appointed Jadee Hanson as its CISO. Hanson will oversee the corporate’s safety, enterprise engineering, privateness and governance, and threat and compliance initiatives. She has beforehand served as CISO and CIO at Code42 and held senior management roles within the safety division of Goal Corp. and as a safety guide at Deloitte. She can also be the founder and CEO of the non-profit group Constructing With out Borders, which serves these in poverty-stricken areas all through the world by way of housing companies.
Former SAP CSO Tim McKnight appointed as working associate by SYN Ventures
CISO-founded enterprise capital agency SYN Ventures has appointed former SAP international chief safety officer Tim McKnight as an working associate. McKnight is the third former Fortune 500 CISO to be named a associate by SYN Ventures. He’ll deal with the agency’s $75-million cybersecurity seed fund, which invests in transformational and disruptive options the place there is a chance to cut back expertise threat, tackle the expertise hole and assist automate and improve safety applications. Earlier than becoming a member of SAP, McKnight served as CISO for Thomson Reuters and as CISO for Common Electrical.
