Executive record
Igor Tsyganskiy
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Igor Tsyganskiy was named Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft. The appointment was announced on December 6, 2023, per SecurityWeek.
Before the appointment: Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft, per the same source.
The record holds no later verification of the seat.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Igor Tsyganskiy, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer at Microsoft
Source: SecurityWeek ↗ · Move record
Before December 2023· Earlier role
Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft
Named in the announcement of the Microsoft appointment · Source: SecurityWeek ↗
The appointment
Announced December 6, 2023 · Source: SecurityWeek ↗ · Move record
Microsoft named Igor Tsyganskiy as its new Chief Information Security Officer, succeeding Bret Arsenault, who moves to a security advisory role. Tsyganskiy had joined Microsoft about four months earlier as Chief Strategy Officer, following prior roles as chief technology officer and president at Bridgewater Associates.
According to SecurityWeek, Tsyganskiy is to help guide Microsoft through a new Secure Future Initiative promising a higher default security bar for shipped software, better management of identity signing keys and faster cloud patches. SecurityWeek reports that Charlie Bell, the security boss at Microsoft, carried out the shakeup of the company's security hierarchy that handed the reins to Tsyganskiy. SecurityWeek reported that Arsenault had held the CISO title for 14 years and that his deputy, Aanchal Gupta, was to exit Microsoft's security organization at the time of the report.
Before Bridgewater, he worked as SVP Engineering at WideOrbit and as SVP of product management at Salesforce, according to SecurityWeek.
According to SecurityWeek, red teams, cybersecurity software teams and all cyber intelligence and counter intelligence functions continue to report directly to Tsyganskiy. Tsyganskiy said the organizational changes put further focus on addressing growing threat actor activity and Microsoft's rapid shift towards AI based cyber defense.
Microsoft says it earns about $20 billion a year in revenue related to cybersecurity, according to SecurityWeek.
The company: Microsoft
- Sector
- Technology
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Microsoft: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Incident filings
- 2 cybersecurity incident disclosures under Form 8-K Item 1.05 on the record; the newest filed March 8, 2024 (filing). All incident filings
- Vendor directory
- Microsoft sells security products, filed under EDR and XDR. What it sells
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Technology whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Igor Tsyganskiy's, nearest first. The Technology bench
Summer Craze Fowler, Chief Information Security Officer at Torc Robotics
Diana Lovati, Chief Information Security Officer at True Anomaly
Talha Tariq, Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer at HashiCorp
Craig Davies, Chief Information Security Officer at Gathid
Samir Sherif, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at F5
Kent Goodrow, Chief Information Security Officer at Systems Engineering
Tim Roemer, Chief Security Officer at Global Market Innovators
Record facts
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 30, 2026
Questions about Igor Tsyganskiy
- When did Igor Tsyganskiy become CISO of Microsoft?
- The appointment was announced on December 6, 2023, per SecurityWeek. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Is Igor Tsyganskiy still the CISO of Microsoft?
- The newest source the record holds for this seat is the appointment announced on December 6, 2023. It holds no later verification, so it does not state who holds the seat today.
- What was Igor Tsyganskiy's role before this appointment?
- Before the appointment, Igor Tsyganskiy was Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft, according to the announcement (SecurityWeek).
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek ↗: the appointment at Microsoft, December 6, 2023
- 2.SEC EDGAR: Form 8-K/A, filed March 8, 2024 ↗: an Item 1.05 incident disclosure
- 3.SEC EDGAR: Form 8-K, filed January 19, 2024 ↗: an Item 1.05 incident disclosure
- 4.CISO Spotlights career profile ↗: a fuller career profile on a sister site
This record begins with CISO Tribune's tracking in 2026.
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