Talha Tariq

HashiCorp announced that Talha Tariq has been promoted to Chief Information Officer and Chief Security Officer, expanding his responsibility for security, technology and data engineering teams. Tariq previously served as Chief Information Security Officer at Anki and FinancialForce before joining HashiCorp.

According to the GlobeNewswire release, HashiCorp announced the promotion together with the hiring of Michael Weingartner as its first Chief Product Officer. The release says Tariq and Weingartner will both report to HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet, effective immediately. The company says the promotion lets Tariq keep scaling and growing the cloud-first security program at HashiCorp, in alignment with R&D. McJannet said in the release that, as HashiCorp grows, the scope of Tariq's role is expanding so the company can keep supporting customers around the world. In the release, Tariq said he had developed HashiCorp's compliance, technology and security strategy and had worked closely with customers, understanding and supporting their security requirements.

According to the release, Tariq has 20 years of experience scaling and building security programs at organizations ranging from startups to the Fortune 100. At Anki, the HashiCorp blog says, Tariq was responsible for incident response, security operations, privacy engineering, product and application security, and corporate information security. The blog says he was Director of Security Consulting at PwC, where he advised clients in a range of industries on hacking events, data breaches and threat assessments. Early in his career, according to the blog, he did security research and engineering at Microsoft covering cloud security, hypervisor and cryptography. According to the release, Tariq advised security startups and worked with clients across various industries at the time of the announcement.

HashiCorp, Inc. is listed on NASDAQ as HCP and makes multi-cloud infrastructure automation software, according to the release. The release says its software suite lets organizations adopt consistent workflows for automating the cloud, covering security, networking, application deployment and infrastructure provisioning. According to the release, HashiCorp provides enterprise products, managed cloud services and free community source-available products. The release says HashiCorp is headquartered in San Francisco, while most of its employees work remotely around the globe. The blog said his arrival came as HashiCorp was increasing its broader investment in growing its security organization.