Cyber risk management and threat intelligence firm Outpost24 announced the appointment of Omri Kletter as its new Chief Product Officer (CPO). Kletter most recently served as the General Manager of the Risk and Fraud Product Line at Bottomline Technologies, and previously he was the Head of Fraud Solutions at NICE Actimize.

Application detection and response firm Oligo Security has appointed Brandon Conley as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Alberto Rodrigues as Chief Customer Officer (CCO). Conley previously served as CRO of AppOmni, and VP of Worldwide Cloud Security Sales at Palo Alto Networks. Rodrigues has been promoted from EVP of Customer Success to CCO. Prior to Oligo, he was CCO at Armis, and held leadership positions at Skycure (acquired by Symantec) and Trusteer (acquired by IBM).

Nightwing, the cybersecurity and intelligence company that last year spun out of defense giant RTX (formerly Raytheon), has announced the appointment of Bob Coleman as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Coleman, who succeeds John DeSimone at Nightwing, previously served as President and CEO of Six3 Systems, and President and Chief Operating Officer at ManTech International.

Cloud solutions provider CoreWeave has appointed Jim Higgins as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Higgins was most recently CISO for social media firm Snap, and previously was CISO at payments firm Block.

Following its recent Initial Public Offering, SailPoint has appointed Chandra Gnanasambandam as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Product. Chandra joins SailPoint from McKinsey & Company, where he most recently co-led the firm’s global high-tech practice.

Karen Evans has been named Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Up until her appointment as Executive Assistant Director, Evans served as Senior Advisor at CISA. Prior to CISA, she served as the first assistant secretary for cybersecurity, energy security and emergency response at the Energy Department, CIO for the Department of Homeland Security, and Managing Director of the Cyber Readiness Institute.

Harley Geiger has joined Adobe as Director of Cybersecurity Public Policy. Prior to Adobe, Geiger served as Council in the Cybersecurity Services division of law firm Venable. He also held leadership roles at Rapid7 and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT).

Secure networking solutions provider Dispersive Stealth Networking has appointed Greg Akers as Advisor and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Prior to Dispersive, he worked at Cisco for nine years, serving as Senior Vice President & CTO of Advanced Security Research & Government. Prior to Cisco, Akers was at Procter & Gamble and Fechheimer Brothers.

Kash Patel was sworn in as the Director of the FBI. President Donald Trump nominated Patel for the position to replace former Director Christopher Wray.

Browser security firm SquareX appointed John Carse as Field Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). He previously served as CISO at Dyson.

Katie Arrington has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Department of Defense. Arrington previously served as CISO at the DoD between 2019 and 2022. Most recently she held leadership roles at supply chain and risk management company Exiger.

Wayne Maw has joined hardware cybersecurity company X-PHY as its US General Manager. Prior to X-PHY, Maw held leadership roles at SUSE and Cisco.

Barracuda Networks has announced the appointment of Peter Alexander as its Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Alexander previously served as CMO at Fastly, Check Point, and Harmonic. He was also vice president of worldwide field marketing at Cisco.

auDA, the administrator of Australia’s .au domain, has appointed Robert Turney as its first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Turney previously held cybersecurity roles at iSelect and Australia Post.

The US-based arm of networking solutions giant TP-Link, TP-Link Systems Inc., has announced the appointment of Adam Robertson as Director of Information and Security, along with other efforts to “demonstrate TP-Link’s ongoing commitment to delivering secure, reliable, and innovative products while prioritizing user privacy and transparency”. The announcement comes just as the US government is considering banning Chinese-made TP-Link routers due to potential risks to national security. Prior to TP-Link, Robertson held leadership roles at Reliance and Incipio Group.

Supply chain risk management firm Eclypsium has named Raj Dodhiawala as its Chief Product Officer (CPO). Prior to joining Eclypsium, Dodhiawala held leadership roles at Remediant, GoSecure (CounterTack), ManTech Cyber Solutions International, and Vantos.