CISO appointment
Paul Black named Chief Information Security Officer at Tanium
Paul Black is the Chief Information Security Officer of Tanium.
Records: Tanium · Paul Black
| Person | Paul Black |
|---|---|
| New role | Chief Information Security Officer |
| Company | Tanium |
| Announced | May 18, 2026 |
| Added to the record | August 1, 2026 |
| Source | Tanium (company announcement on X) |
Context from the record
- Tanium is filed under Cybersecurity Vendors, North America, on our record.
Other Cybersecurity Vendors appointments in the second quarter of 2026
- Roger Hale, Chief Information Security Officer, 1Kosmos
- Ali Waezzadah, Chief Information Security Officer, iCOUNTER
- Stephen Garcia, Chief Information Security Officer, BreachRx
- Henrik Smith, Chief Information Security Officer, Infoblox
- Drew McCombs, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, Cylerity
- Jacob Berry, Chief Information Security Officer, Fable Security
- Mark Carter, Chief Information Security Officer, Socure
- Adam Dimopoulos, Chief Information Security Officer, Entrust
11 on our record that quarter. Who runs security in Cybersecurity Vendors.
What this move signals
Tanium named Paul Black as Chief Information Security Officer, with a mandate reported to include AI-focused security priorities. Tanium announced the appointment on May 18, 2026. (Corrected 2026-09-25: this record previously carried a month-level date of May 2026.)
A security vendor's CISO is both defender and reference customer; the explicitly AI-scoped mandate mirrors what GitLab signaled with its June appointment — 2026 CISO briefs increasingly name AI in the job description itself.
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