Jason Lord named Chief Information Security Officer at AutoRABIT

AutoRABIT added Jason Lord as Chief Information Security Officer. Lord most recently served as CISO Partner at Fortium Partners, and earlier was CISO and Director of Threat Intelligence at the White House under President Obama. He joins the Salesforce DevSecOps company to lead its data security strategy.

According to the release, Lord's role will support efforts to guide future decisions, refine existing products and keep up with emerging data security threats. According to the release, Lord will provide guidance at AutoRABIT to spark internal discussions and move data security conversations forward. Externally, according to the release, he will share security insights and strategies through event presentations, ebooks and webinars.

According to the release, Lord has worked in cybersecurity for 25 years. The Fortium Partners profile lists his roles at Bridgewater Associates as Principal Security Technologist and Chief Information Security Officer. The Fortium Partners profile says he also served as Technical Director at Symantec Corporation and as Senior Director, Cybersecurity Services at AccessData. The release says his experience covers managing enterprise security risks and building programs in cloud security, cyber intelligence and cybersecurity operations. Fortium Partners says that as a CISO he led teams on control frameworks, risk assessments and cloud services and managed business continuity, vulnerability management and incident response.

Fortium Partners says Lord served in the U.S. Marine Corps and helped redesign networks and facilities at all 54 U.S. National Guard sites. According to Fortium Partners, Lord was appointed to the Amazon AWS CISO Council.

According to the release, AutoRABIT was founded in 2015 to help organizations in regulated industries increase deployment velocity and master development cycles. The release says AutoRABIT offers a suite of Salesforce DevSecOps tools focused on productivity and data security.