Victor Chang named Chief Information Security Officer at Backstory

Backstory appointed Victor Chang as Chief Information Security Officer, framing the role around global security for its AI answers platform.

Another 2026 appointment where AI is written into the mandate itself — the security-of-AI brief has moved from research teams into the CISO job description within a single hiring cycle.

According to the Business Wire release, Chang will lead compliance programs, infrastructure security and comprehensive cybersecurity strategy across the organization. Chang also said he will establish a security program on which the company's large enterprise customers can depend.

According to the release, Chang has spent more than 20 years scaling site reliability engineering, infrastructure and cybersecurity at companies in Silicon Valley. The release says he was most recently a senior security leader at Meta, directing security and technical integrations for its global mergers and acquisitions. The release says Chang's expertise covers compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, NIST 800-171, ISO/IEC 27001 and PCI DSS. According to the release, Chang held board seats at the Silicon Valley Information Systems Security Association and the Society for Information Management SF Bay Chapter at the time of the announcement.

The company says it has trained AI models on billions of sales interactions for more than a decade, letting sales teams ask questions directly within their existing AI workflows. The release says the San Francisco company is backed by Mubadala Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Akkadian Ventures.