LinkedIn has a brand new chief info safety officer, Lea Kissner. Announcing the appointment in a LinkedIn submit (fittingly), Kissner mentioned they’re “excited” to tackle the brand new position.
Kissner most not too long ago served as CISO at cloud safety startup Lacework. Prior to that, Kissner was Twitter’s CISO till their departure in November 2022, weeks after Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of the social media big, now often known as X. Kissner additionally beforehand served in senior cybersecurity and privateness positions at Google and Apple.
Kissner replaces Geoff Belknap, who served as LinkedIn CISO till June. In a separate submit, Belknap congratulated Kissner, saying LinkedIn is in “great hands.”
