Kim Larsen named Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Keepit

Keepit, a Danish SaaS data backup and recovery company, hired Kim Larsen as its new CISO. Larsen has more than 20 years of leadership experience in IT and cybersecurity from government and the private sector, and once served as a delegate for the Danish government in NATO's and the EU's security committees.

According to Keepit, Larsen began his career in the Danish National Police before spending nine years at the Security and Intelligence Service, known as PET. After moving to the private sector, he acted as a strategic advisor on financial, public and government sector matters, the release says. Keepit says he also developed security organizations and partnerships at companies including Systematic, Huawei and Verizon. For 10 years he sat on the Danish Council for Digital Security and on the information security board of DI, the Danish Industry confederation, the company says. Keepit described Larsen as having been, at the time of the announcement, a board advisor, negotiator and keynote speaker on general and cyber security topics. Keepit says Larsen holds the title of Group Chief Information Security Officer at the company.

According to its release, Keepit provides SaaS data protection for companies that store their data in the cloud. The company says it runs a vendor-independent cloud for SaaS data protection that rests on a blockchain-verified solution. Keepit says it protects data in business applications such as Salesforce, Google, Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft 365. The company is headquartered in Copenhagen, has offices and data centers around the world, and says thousands of companies use it to protect and manage cloud data.