By Jay Rossiter, SVP, Product & Engineering, Science & Technology
I’m so pleased to welcome Bob Lord as Yahoo’s new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Bob brings more than twenty years of significant experience in the information security space, most recently as CISO-in-Residence at Rapid 7. Before that, Bob was Twitter’s first security hire, heading up their information security program. In this role he established Twitter’s efforts in compliance, application security, product security, and information security. Previously he held positions in product and information security at companies like Red Hat, AOL, and Netscape.
Security has never been a more important priority for our company and the subject of global debate than right now. At Yahoo, we’re committed to protecting our users’ security and maintaining their trust. We offer users encrypted products, provide an end-to-end encryption plugin on GitHub for Yahoo Mail, offer two-factor authentication, and have taken an important step toward a password-free future through Yahoo Account Key, which allows users a fast and secure way to access their Yahoo accounts.
Bob will lead our security team – known as the Paranoids – in offensive and defensive protection of our more than one billion users around the world and for our employees globally. He’ll work closely across our teams and collaboratively across the industry to ensure that we’re providing the highest level of security possible to our users, and continue to provide our users with the latest security innovations.
Stay tuned for updates from Bob around our continued efforts to protect our users’ security and maintain their trust.
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