Quincy Castro named Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Chainguard

Chainguard named Quincy Castro as its Chief Information Security Officer. Castro previously served as CISO of Redis and held security leadership roles at GE Transportation and Wabtec.

According to the release, Castro will lead Chainguard's security strategy and posture, covering IT, product security and information security. The release says Castro will work closely with partners, customers and teams across the business to mitigate risks proactively. According to Chainguard's website, Castro heads the Security and Technology organization at Chainguard. According to that page, his organization spans corporate security as well as IT, product security and other functions.

According to the release, Castro served as Redis CISO for the past four years. The release says Castro held roles at the NSA and in private industry, where he gained offensive and defensive security experience. In the release, Castro says his job is to "make life as hard as possible for bad actors" and easy for everyone else.

According to the release, the Chainguard catalog holds more than 1,500 images covering most modern application stacks. According to the release, Chainguard's customers include Fortune 500 enterprises as well as Snowflake, Snap Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Everllence, Canva, ANZ Bank and Anduril. According to the release, Chainguard is venture-backed, with investors including Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures, IVP, Amplify, Spark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Mantis VC. According to Chainguard, the team behind the company has spent decades building and securing open source technologies and has created or contributed to projects such as DriftlessAF, Distroless, Sigstore and Kubernetes.