McAfee has named Craig Boundy as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective August 21, 2024. Boundy, who has over 25 years of leadership experience, joins McAfee from Experian where he served as the global Chief Operating Officer, and previously as CEO for North America. Prior to Experian, Boundy held leadership roles at Logica and Cable & Wireless.

Forcepoint has promoted Ryan Windham, Chief Customer and Strategy Officer, to Chief Executive Officer (CEO), succeeding Manny Rivelo, who is retiring from his position as CEO. Before joining Forcepoint in 2023, Windham was the CEO of AppViewX and Cedexis, and he also held leadership positions at Imperva, F5 and Websense.

TXOne Networks, a provider of cybersecurity solutions for industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) environments, has appointed Stephen Driggers as its new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In his new role, Driggers will oversee the development and execution of revenue strategies to drive sustainable growth. Previously, he held CRO and VP positions at Nozomi Networks, Thales Cloud Security, HP Enterprise Security, and other companies.

Identity orchestration provider Strata Identity has appointed Aldo Pietropaolo as its Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO). In his new role, Pietropaolo will provide guidance on implementing Strata’s Maverics platform and will work with customers to understand their cloud identity management requirements and challenges. Previously, Pietropaolo held various executive and advisory positions, including director of solutions engineering at SGNL.

Cyviation, a provider of cybersecurity solutions for the aviation industry, has appointed Eliran Almog as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Eliran Almog, who succeeds Avi Tenenbaum as CEO, brings deep knowledge of the market and an extensive experience in high-tech and regulation-heavy industries.

Outpost24, a provider of cyber risk management and threat intelligence solutions, announced the appointment of Ido Erlichman as its new Chief Executive Officer. He previously served as CEO at Kape Technologies, which was sold for $1.75 billion in 2023.

Managed security platform provider Deepwatch has named John DiLullo as CEO, succeeding Charlie Thomas, who will serve as chairman of the board of directors, effective immediately. DiLullo previously served as CEO of LiveVox and Lastline, and also held leadership positions at Forcepoint, F5, Cisco, HP/Aruba Networks and Sonicwall.

Tools for Humanity (TFH), a technology company developing tools for the crypto project Worldcoin, has hired Damien Kieran as Chief Privacy Officer and Adrian Ludwig as Chief Information Security Officer. Kieran, who served as Chief Privacy Officer/Data Protection Officer at X (formerly Twitter), will seek to shape new industry standards for compliance and privacy protections. Ludwig, who previously served at Google as director of Android security and at Atlassian as Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Trust Officer, will oversee data security internally and externally.

AI driven extended detection and response (XDR) provider Vectra AI has appointed Sailesh Munagala as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Munagala will lead financial operations across Vectra AI and will be responsible for financial, legal, IT, and business operations functions. Previously, Munagala held executive positions at Relativity, Google Cloud, Cortex, and Palo Alto Networks.

American Financial Group (NYSE: AFG) has promoted JD Rogers to Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Rogers joined the Company in 2008 and has served as the leader of the company’s Enterprise Information Security Group since its inception in 2013.

Chris DeRusha has joined Google Cloud as Director of Global Public Sector Compliance. DeRusha, who previously served as federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) within the Office of Management and Budget, will directly report to Jeanette Manfra, Global Director of Security and Compliance at Google Cloud. In 2020, the Biden campaign hired DeRusha as its first CISO.

Kevin Mandia is now General Partner at cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm Ballistic Ventures. Mandia is one of the company’s founders and until now he served as Strategic Partner. The cybersecurity veteran founded Mandiant and has served as its CEO for a large part of the past two decades. Following the company’s acquisition by Google Cloud, he recently transitioned to an advisory role within Google Cloud and sits on the Google Public Sector board. Mandia also serves as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee.

Zimperium has announced the appointment of Michael Williams as its new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Williams joins Zimperium from KnowBe4, where he also served as CMO. He was also CMO at Symantec, and he previously held leadership positions at Blue Coat Systems and McAfee.

Mark Sutton, Managing Director and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Bain Capital has joined the Board of Directors at AI security firm Harmonic Security.

Log analytics platform Sumo Logic has named John Visneski as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and Lyndsey Filantres as Senior Vice President of Growth. Visneski previously held cybersecurity leadership positions at The Pokémon Company International, Accolade, MGM Studios, and most recently at Amazon after it acquired MGM. He also served in the US Air Force. Filantres previously held key positions at Accolade, GitHub, New Relic, Avalara and SAP Concur.

Gabriel Agboruche has been named Executive Director of OT and Cybersecurity at consulting, technical, engineering, and project delivery services firm Jacobs Solutions. Prior to joining Jacobs, Agboruche held OT security consulting roles at Accenture and Mandiant.