Andrew Rose

SoSafe announced the appointment of Andrew Rose as its new Chief Security Officer. Rose previously served as Resident CISO at Proofpoint and earlier held CISO roles at NATS and the law firms Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy.

Rose will focus as CSO on SoSafe’s vision of strengthening digital self-defense worldwide and helping customers transform their security culture, the release says. The release says he also brings hands-on experience in risk management and in improving the cyber security posture of complex enterprises.

At Proofpoint, the release says, Rose cultivated a community of CISOs, represented the brand externally and helped customers enhance their security practices. The release says he managed secure processing of transfers worth trillions of pounds at Vocalink, a Mastercard company, and oversaw cyber security of UK airspace traffic at NATS. In 2015, after implementing models he had designed at Forrester, he won UK Awareness Campaign of the Year at the UK Cyber Security Awards, the release says.

He spent over a decade as CISO in the legal sector, at magic circle firms Allen & Overy LLP and Clifford Chance LLP, the release says. Rose was named European CISO of the Year 2018 at the SC Awards and has been in the CSO30 every year since 2020, according to the release. Proofpoint says Rose holds a master’s degree in information security and speaks regularly at global security conferences, including RSA in 2019.

SoSafe was founded in 2018 in Cologne, Germany, by Felix Schuerholz, Lukas Schaefer and Dr Niklas Hellemann, according to the release. According to the release, SoSafe served more than 4500 customers around the world at the time of the announcement. SoSafe says it has more than 370 employees at seven locations, with Cologne as headquarters and others in Amsterdam, Berlin, Lisbon, London, Munich and Paris.