Executive record
Olivia Brännlund
Career profile: Olivia Brännlund on CISO Spotlights ↗
Olivia Brännlund is CISO at Outpost24. The appointment was announced in the week of August 18, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
Before the appointment: Deputy CISO at Outpost24, per the same source.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Olivia Brännlund, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-08-18) ↗ · Move record
Before August 2025· Earlier role
Deputy CISO at Outpost24
Named in the announcement of the Outpost24 appointment · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-08-18) ↗
The appointment
Announced week of August 18, 2025 · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-08-18) ↗ · Move record
Olivia Brännlund was promoted to CISO at Outpost24, having joined the company in 2022 and previously served as deputy CISO. Before Outpost24, she served as security architect at Ericsson and telecommunications firm Qvantel.
According to Outpost24, Brännlund leads the company's security strategy in her role as Chief Information Security Officer.
According to the release, Brännlund began at Outpost24 as a technical coordinator and was later promoted to technical architect for the platform team. The release says that in her roles at Outpost24 she worked on security initiatives, including the design of the security architecture for the orchestration platform. Before Outpost24, the release says, Brännlund held responsibility for security work in the 5G field as a security architect at Ericsson. Earlier, at the telecommunications firm Qvantel, she helped secure the Business Support Solution as a security architect, according to the release.
Outpost24 says The Hacker News named Brännlund Cybersecurity Woman of the Year at its 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards. The Cybersecurity Star Awards committee cited her design of the security architecture for Outpost24's core platform, Outpost24 says.
SecurityWeek describes Outpost24 as a provider of cyber risk management and threat intelligence. Outpost24 says it was founded in 2001, is headquartered in Sweden and has 14 offices worldwide, including in Israel, Belgium, France, Spain, the UK and the US.
The company: Outpost24
- Sector
- Cybersecurity Vendors
- Region
- Europe
- Company record
- Who runs security at Outpost24: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Vendor directory
- Outpost24 sells security products, filed under Exposure prioritisation and CTEM. What it sells
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Cybersecurity Vendors whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Olivia Brännlund's, nearest first. The Cybersecurity Vendors bench
Aman Sirohi, Chief Information Security Officer at Cyberhaven
Diana Kelley, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Noma Security
Leslie Nielsen, Chief Information Security Officer at Mimecast
Quincy Castro, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Chainguard
Raj Umadas, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at RAD Security
Rinki Sethi, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Upwind
Lane Sullivan, Chief Information Security and Strategy Officer at Concentric AI
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 1 year 2 months since the appointment was announced (week of August 18, 2025), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 26, 2026
- Cybersecurity Vendors in 2026
- 25 security-leadership appointments announced in the sector on the record
How these are counted. Time in the seat: Counted in whole months from the announcement of the appointment, the date the record holds; announcements rarely give a start date.
Questions about Olivia Brännlund
- Who is the CISO of Outpost24?
- Olivia Brännlund is CISO at Outpost24. The appointment was announced in the week of August 18, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did Olivia Brännlund become CISO of Outpost24?
- The appointment was announced in the week of August 18, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- What was Olivia Brännlund's role before this appointment?
- Before the appointment, Olivia Brännlund was Deputy CISO at Outpost24, according to the announcement (SecurityWeek Industry Moves).
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-08-18) ↗: the appointment at Outpost24, week of August 18, 2025
- 2.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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