Executive record
Rinki Sethi
Career profile: Rinki Sethi on CISO Spotlights ↗
Rinki Sethi is Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Upwind. The appointment was announced in the week of June 9, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Rinki Sethi, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
The company: Upwind
- Sector
- Cybersecurity Vendors
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at Upwind: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Vendor directory
- Upwind sells security products, filed under Cloud-native application protection (CNAPP). What it sells
In their own words
What Rinki Sethi has posted and written in public while in the seat, each described in our words with a link to the original. A post loads from LinkedIn or X only when you choose Show post. All voices
Talks and interviews
Conference sessions, podcast episodes and videos with Rinki Sethi that the record holds, each from the event or the show's own page. The speaking circuit · Podcasts
July 9, 2026· Podcast appearance, Defense in Depth
Rinki Sethi, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Upwind
Humans Are Bottleneck in a Machine-Speed World
On human-machine speed mismatches in security operations
Listen at Defense in Depth ↗
Elsewhere
Public profiles we matched to Rinki Sethi by exact name and the company on our record. Links only; we do not copy from them.
Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Cybersecurity Vendors whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Rinki Sethi's, nearest first (8 of 13). The Cybersecurity Vendors bench
Lane Sullivan, Chief Information Security and Strategy Officer at Concentric AI
Shane Barney, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Keeper Security
Sean Malone, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at BeyondTrust
Quincy Castro, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Chainguard
Diana Kelley, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Noma Security
Bill O'Connell, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Commvault
Olivia Brännlund, CISO at Outpost24
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 1 year 5 months since the appointment was announced (week of June 9, 2025), as of November 2026
- Moves on the record
- 1 confirmed move, each with its source
- On the record since
- September 30, 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 Rinki Sethi
- Who leads security at Upwind?
- Rinki Sethi is Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Upwind. The appointment was announced in the week of June 9, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did Rinki Sethi become Chief Security Officer (CSO) of Upwind?
- The appointment was announced in the week of June 9, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-06-09) ↗: the appointment at Upwind, week of June 9, 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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