Janet L. Rathod named VP and CISO at Johns Hopkins University

Janet L. Rathod has been named VP and CISO at Johns Hopkins University. She joins from Citigroup, where she led global cyber intelligence efforts, and previously served as senior director of Cyber Operations and Intelligence at Capital One Financial and spent 16 years in the FBI.

Johns Hopkins University says Rathod took the post of vice president and chief information security officer for both Johns Hopkins University and Medicine at IT@JH. The university says she will also work closely with senior colleagues in security across the institution.

The university says Rathod has over two decades of experience leading enterprise-wide security teams in the private and public sector. At Citigroup, the university's profile says, Rathod led cyber intelligence across several global teams performing strategic and technical cyber analysis to diminish emerging threats and drive defensive controls. The profile says that at Capital One Financial Corporation she created new cybersecurity functions with firm-wide scope and impact and led them. The profile says Rathod gained expertise at the FBI in counterterrorism, counterintelligence and cybersecurity. According to the profile, she was a member of the Senior Executive Service, overseeing the intelligence program for four operational divisions and 56 Field Offices.

Rathod succeeds Darren Lacey, who spent over 21 years as director of IT Compliance and chief information security officer at IT@JH, the university says. For the past seven-plus years, Lacey also held the title of vice president of IT for Johns Hopkins Health System and Johns Hopkins University, the university says.