Jaya Baloo named Chief Security Officer at Rapid7

Rapid7 appointed Jaya Baloo as its new Chief Security Officer. Baloo joins from Avast, where she served as Chief Information Security Officer, and previously held the CISO role at Dutch telecom operator KPN. She will lead efforts to evolve Rapid7's internal security program.

According to IT Brief Asia, Baloo will engage with customers and the wider security community, and will collaborate across all Rapid7 teams on developing and showcasing security best practices. Corey Thomas, chairman and CEO of Rapid7, said Baloo joins the company's executive leadership team, IT Brief Asia reports.

IT Brief Asia reports that Baloo has more than 20 years' experience in Information Security, spanning architecture and operations as well as strategy and policy. Avast announced on July 12, 2019 that it had appointed Baloo as Chief Information Security Officer, effective October 1, 2019, according to PR Newswire. Baloo was Practice Lead Lawful Interception at Verizon prior to KPN, PR Newswire reports. She has spoken at conferences such as TEDx, RSA and Codemotion on Cryptography, VoIP & Mobile Security, Quantum Communications networks and Lawful Interception, PR Newswire reports.

Since 2017, Baloo has been a faculty member of Singularity University, where she lectures regularly, IT Brief Asia reports. According to IT Brief Asia, at the time of the announcement she sat on the RvT of the NOS, the Dutch Broadcasting station, as a board member and served on the audit committee of cybersecurity fund TIIN capital. IT Brief Asia reported that, at the time of the announcement, she sat on the EU Quantum Flagship's Strategic Advisory Board and the advisory board of The Netherlands National Cyber Security Centre. From 2016 to 2017, she served on the FET Quantum Flagship's EU High Level Steering Committee, Avast's author page says.