Leslie Nielsen named Chief Information Security Officer at Mimecast

Leslie Nielsen has joined Mimecast as Chief Information Security Officer, coming from Klaviyo where he served as SVP and CISO. Prior to Klaviyo, Nielsen held SVP and CISO roles at Nuance Communications, SAP Concur, and SuccessFactors.

According to the release, Nielsen will lead the global cybersecurity strategy at Mimecast, covering threat intelligence, incident response and risk assessment initiatives. The release says Nielsen will also be responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance at Mimecast, which serves more than 42,000 global customers.

The release says Nielsen has spent more than 25 years in cybersecurity and describes Klaviyo as a marketing automation platform. Before Klaviyo, he was CTO at SOS Security and held senior roles at IBM and at ACS, which Xerox acquired, the release says. He has also served on Google's CISO Cloud Advisory Board, according to the release. The release says Nielsen studied Computer Science at Texas Tech University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science.

In the release, Nielsen said he was joining Mimecast on its mission to secure the human layer in a new age of AI-powered threats. According to the release, Mimecast's connected human risk platform is AI-powered and API-enabled and is built to protect organizations from a spectrum of cyber threats.