Executive record
Paul Black
Paul Black is Chief Information Security Officer at Tanium. The appointment was announced on May 18, 2026, per Tanium.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Paul Black, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
The appointment
Announced May 18, 2026 · Source: Tanium (company announcement on X) ↗ · Move record
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.
The company: Tanium
- Sector
- Cybersecurity Vendors
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Tanium: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Vendor directory
- Tanium sells security products, filed under Endpoint management and application control. What it sells
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Cybersecurity Vendors whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Paul Black's, nearest first (8 of 15). The Cybersecurity Vendors bench
Adam Dimopoulos, Chief Information Security Officer at Entrust
Drew McCombs, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at Cylerity
Jacob Berry, Chief Information Security Officer at Fable Security
John Podboy, Chief Information Security Officer at Semperis
Mark Carter, Chief Information Security Officer at Socure
Henrik Smith, Chief Information Security Officer at Infoblox
Stephen Garcia, Chief Information Security Officer at BreachRx
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- 5 months since the appointment was announced (May 18, 2026), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- August 1, 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 Paul Black
- Who is the CISO of Tanium?
- Paul Black is Chief Information Security Officer at Tanium. The appointment was announced on May 18, 2026, per Tanium.
- When did Paul Black become CISO of Tanium?
- The appointment was announced on May 18, 2026, per Tanium. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
Sources
- 1.Tanium (company announcement on X) ↗: the appointment at Tanium, May 18, 2026
This record begins with CISO Tribune's tracking in 2026.
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