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Identity verification and fraud prevention firm Socure has named Matt Thompson as President and Chief Commercial Officer. A decorated combat veteran, Thompson served as Socure’s CRO and as its first public sector leader.

US cybersecurity agency CISA this week announced that Andrew McCarthy has been named Chief of Staff. In his new role, McCarthy will lead the agency’s daily operations and strategic direction, mainly focusing on policy goals and organizational priorities. He has extensive experience in the intelligence community, previously serving within DHS, the National Intelligence Council, and the National Reconnaissance Office.

Bug bounty platform HackerOne has announced the appointment of Stephanie Furfaro as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Stacy Leidwinger as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Furfaro, who will supervise all global revenue-generating functions, previously served at Rapid7, DigitalOcean, Allaire, Macromedia, and Adobe. Leidwinger, who will lead global marketing functions, previously held leading positions at Secureworks and IBM.

Threat intelligence firm Intel 471 has promoted Amy Minyard-Bishop as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Steve Micallef as Chief Technical Officer (CTO). Minyard-Bishop, who previously served as the company’s Chief Customer Officer (CCO), has over two decades of experience in sales, customer success, and intelligence operations. Micallef, who will lead Intel 471’s R&D team, previously served at UBS, Google, and SpiderFoot (which was acquired by Intel 471).

Mike Price has joined exploit and vulnerability intelligence provider VulnCheck as Vice President of Product & Engineering. He most recently served as Chief Technology Officer at ZeroFox.

Access governance and identity security company Opal Security announced the appointment of Howard Ting as Chief Executive Officer. Ting joins Opal Security following his tenure as CEO of Cyberhaven and brings more than two decades of experience scaling cybersecurity and enterprise software companies like Redis, Nutanix, and Palo Alto Networks.

Vectra AI has appointed Derek Phillips as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Phillips joins the company from Claroty, where he also served as CRO.

Microsoft’s Global CISO Igor Tsyganskiy announced several leadership updates across the security organization on December 9th. Geoff Belknap and Michael Srihari have been promoted to Operating CISOs reporting directly to Tsyganskiy. Sherrod DeGrippo has been promoted to Deputy CISO, Customer Security Management Office.

Kelly Shortridge has been named Chief Product Officer at Fastly. She joined the company in 2021 and previously served as VP of Security Products.