Application risk management company Veracode has appointed Brian Roche as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Roche previously served as the company’s Chief Product Officer. The company says his ascension to CEO completes a succession plan through which Sam King will step down after 17 years at Veracode.

Norm Laudermilch has joined space technology company Maxar Technologies as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Laudermilch has been tasked with monitoring and securing the Maxar’s attack surface and ensuring that on-orbit and mission systems are secure. He previously held leadership positions at BigBear.ai, LookingGlass, ControlCase, Sophos and Invincea.

The National Motor Freight Traffic Association (NMFTA) announced the appointment of Cara Walls as Director of Cybersecurity. Walls is a former cybersecurity professor and mentor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and has held security leadership roles at Coyote Logistics and UMB Bank.

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has appointed Hemant Baidwan as its new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Baidwan, who replaces Ken Bible following his retirement, has until now served as the Deputy CISO at the DHS. In that role, Baidwan led the Hack DHS bug bounty program.

Kylie McRoberts has been named Head of Safety at Elon Musk’s X Corp. McRoberts has been with Twitter/X for years and has led initiatives to increase transparency in the social platform’s moderation practices through labels, improve security with passkeys and building out a new Safety Center of Excellence in Austin. She will oversee the global Safety team at X, which is responsible for developing new products, tools, and features to protect the platform and community, maintaining Safety policies, and enhancing X’s enforcement methodology and operations.

F5 has appointed Lyra Schramm as Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer (CPO) and Kunal Anand as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Prior to joining F5, Anand was CTO and CISO at Imperva. Anand also co-founded application security firm Prevoty.

Veteran cybersecurity executive Trey Ford has joined Deepwatch at Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) where he will oversee Information Security and Information Technology for managed security platform. Ford most recently served as Deputy CISO at Vista Equity Partners. Before that, he was Head of Trust for Heroku at Salesforce and General Manager of Black Hat.

Shane Callahan has been named chief information officer (CIO) at Vanderbilt University. He had been Vanderbilt’s first chief information security officer since January 2022. His new role started on April 1, 2024, and he will continue his work to enhance the university’s cybersecurity posture, modernize the data warehouse, and support the university’s AI efforts.

Data loss and insider threat protection firm Code42 has named Dennis Dayman as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Dayman will be responsible for leading global risk and compliance, security operations, incident response, and external and internal threat management and investigations. He also serves on the DHS’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee as chair of the Policy Subcommittee. Dayman previously held security leadership roles at Proofpoint, Maropost, Return Path, and Eloqua.

Cyber risk management solutions provider Inversion6 has appointed Tom Siu as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Siu joins Inversion6’s CISO practice and he will work directly with clients to develop and manage their cybersecurity programs. Siu previously served as CISO at the Michigan State and Case Western Reserve universities, and was a virtual CISO at a managed security services provider.

Email security company Abnormal Security has appointed Smita Sanadhya as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Jeff True as Chief Legal Officer (CLO). Sanadhya previously led worldwide finance planning and analysis at Okta. She also held leadership roles at Microsoft and HP. True comes to Abnormal from Zoom Video Communications. He also spent nine years at Palo Alto Networks as General Counsel and was the firm’s first in-house attorney.

Bot management firm Arkose Labs has named Patrick Kehoe as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Prior to joining Arkose Labs, Kehoe was CMO at Coalfire, a global risk management and compliance firm, and Axan, now Digital.AI.

Security data movement startup Tarsal has appointed Barrett Lyon as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Lyon, who will oversee the development and expansion of Tarsal’s extract, transform and load (ETL) platform, is the founder of several security and technology companies, including Netography, BitGravity, Defense.Net, the Opte Project, and Prolexic Technologies, where he served as CEO and in other executive roles. Tarsal announced Lyon’s addition to its leadership as part of its $6 million seed funding announcement.

Industrial cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks announced that Kevin Isaac has been appointed Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) for the company. Isaac previously held roles including Chief Revenue Officer of Forcepoint, Senior Vice President at Symantec and Senior Vice President at Sophos. He joins the firm following last weeks’ $100 million Series E funding announcement.

KYC company Encompass Corporation has appointed Neil Acworth as its new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) as part of its focus on delivering gold-standard information security processes to global banks. Acworth previously held CTO and CIO roles at several companies in the tech industry.

Industrial cybersecurity professional services provider Armexa has appointed Van Wilson as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Wilson brings more than 30 years of experience in business operations and leadership, particularly in the professional services sector. He previously held leadership roles at Audubon Companies, Accenture, and Cimation.