Chris Hodson named Chief Security Officer at Cyberhaven

Cyberhaven appointed Chris Hodson as Chief Security Officer. Hodson joins from Contentful and previously served as Chief Information Security Officer at Tanium and as CISO for EMEA at Zscaler. He will oversee cloud and application security, operations and risk management for the company.

According to the release, Cyberhaven made the appointment of Hodson as Chief Security Officer as part of an expansion of its leadership team. To protect the employees and customers of Cyberhaven, Hodson will oversee all facets of security, according to the release.

Most recently at Contentful, Hodson was responsible for the security strategy, which focused on building a cybersecurity organization to manage the company's technology risks, the release says. Before that, as CISO at Tanium, he oversaw security strategy and the execution of security initiatives in customer-facing and corporate environments, according to the release. The release says Hodson also held the role of Data Protection Officer at Zscaler alongside his post as CISO for EMEA. In that role, he worked with customers on developing their cybersecurity strategy and with internal business stakeholders on data protection and product development initiatives, the release says. According to the release, at the time of the announcement Hodson was a Chartered Institute of Information Security fellow and a board advisor at Cybrary, a workforce development platform. According to the release, Hodson is the author of a book titled Cyber Risk Management.

Cyberhaven describes itself as a data security company focused on protecting important company information from misuse and theft. According to the release, Cyberhaven provides a platform for Data Detection and Response, known as DDR. The company says its data tracing technology analyzes billions of events around each piece of data in order to understand and classify it. The release says Cyberhaven introduced its Insider Threat Platform in 2022.