Business social networking giant LinkedIn has appointed former Twitter security chief Lea Kissner as its new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
Kissner, who departed Twitter after the Elon Musk acquisition, will be tasked with leading LinkedIn’s security and privacy strategy, ensuring the protection of LinkedIn’s member and customer data.
Kissner replaces Geoff Belknap, who recently moved into a separate leadership role at Microsoft, which owns LinkedIn.
Based in San Francisco, Kissner has been a prominent cybersecurity practitioner at several well known tech firms. Kissner was at Google for 12 years and left as global lead of privacy technology. After that came a move through some of the biggest firms in technology: HUMU (chief privacy officer), Zoom (security and privacy consultant), Apple (director of engineering), Twitter (starting as head of privacy engineering and becoming CISO and VP of Engineering), and then as CISO at Lacework.
Kissner shared the news on LinkedIn Wednesday. “Speaking as a heavy LinkedIn user I know that what we do here matters and I take that responsibility seriously,” Kissner posted. “ I’m an engineer (and cryptographer) by training and I believe that great security not only protects us but makes our systems work better and more robustly.”
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