Executive record
Sean Malone
Career profile: Sean Malone on CISO Spotlights ↗
Sean Malone is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at BeyondTrust. The appointment was announced in the week of April 28, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
Before the appointment: Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Demandbase, per the same source.
The seat was verified again on October 28, 2026, per beyondtrust.com.
1 tracked move on the Wire · Updated
Career timeline
Every move the record holds for Sean Malone, newest first, with the earlier roles the announcements name.
· Appointment
Named Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at BeyondTrust
Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-04-28) ↗ · Move record
Before April 2025· Earlier role
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Demandbase
Named in the announcement of the BeyondTrust appointment · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-04-28) ↗
The appointment
Announced week of April 28, 2025 · Source: SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-04-28) ↗ · Move record
Sean Malone has joined BeyondTrust as its CISO. Prior to BeyondTrust, he served as CISO at Demandbase, VP of risk products at BitSight, and CISO at VisibleRisk.
According to BeyondTrust, Malone will oversee the company's global security strategy, covering threat management, security operations, cyber risk and compliance, and security for products and services. BeyondTrust says Malone has more than 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity industry. The company says his career has spanned executive leadership, offensive security and cyber risk quantification. Janine Seebeck, who was CEO of BeyondTrust at the time of the announcement, said the company was growing and pursuing a mission to help customers solve real-world security problems.
BeyondTrust says that as CISO at Demandbase, Malone regularly advised executive leadership on risk governance, influenced R&D strategy and led global security operations. Demandbase says that as CISO for VisibleRisk, Malone led research and development, product, delivery and information security, and he became VP of risk products after BitSight Technologies acquired VisibleRisk. Before those roles, Malone led cyber defense efforts at Accenture Security and Amazon Prime Video, according to Demandbase. SecurityWeek reports that Malone has also held leadership roles at FusionX, Accenture and Amazon.
Malone said he spent the first decade of his career on the offensive side, working as a simulated adversary in red team engagements against large companies. According to the release on PR Newswire, Malone has a master's degree from Western Governors University in information security & assurance. Demandbase says his certifications include AWS Security Speciality, AWS Solutions Architect, CCISO, CISA, CISM and CISSP. BeyondTrust says Malone holds a U.S. patent for Systems and Methods for Assessment of Cyber Resilience.
The company says its customers number 20,000 and include 75 of the Fortune 100 companies.
The company: BeyondTrust
- Sector
- Cybersecurity Vendors
- Region
- North America
- Company record
- Who runs security at BeyondTrust: 1 confirmed move on the record
- Vendor directory
- BeyondTrust sells security products, filed under Privileged access management. What it sells
In their own words
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Elsewhere
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Appointed in the same period
Other security chiefs in Cybersecurity Vendors whose appointment was announced within 90 days of Sean Malone's, nearest first (8 of 13). The Cybersecurity Vendors bench
Shane Barney, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Keeper Security
Lane Sullivan, Chief Information Security and Strategy Officer at Concentric AI
Bill O'Connell, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Commvault
Sandy Dunn, Chief Information Security Officer at SplxAI
Guy Shamilov, Chief Information Security Officer at Forcepoint
Paul Calatayud, Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Strategy Officer at Archipelo
Rinki Sethi, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Upwind
Harold Rivas, Chief Information Security Officer at Absolute Security
Record facts
- Time in the seat
- About 1 year 6 months since the appointment was announced (week of April 28, 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 Sean Malone
- Who is the CISO of BeyondTrust?
- Sean Malone is Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at BeyondTrust. The appointment was announced in the week of April 28, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves.
- When did Sean Malone become CISO of BeyondTrust?
- The appointment was announced in the week of April 28, 2025, per SecurityWeek Industry Moves. The record holds the announcement, not a start date.
- Where did Sean Malone work before BeyondTrust?
- Before the appointment, Sean Malone was Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Demandbase, according to the announcement (SecurityWeek Industry Moves).
Sources
- 1.SecurityWeek Industry Moves (week of 2025-04-28) ↗: the appointment at BeyondTrust, week of April 28, 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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