Meta Taps New Chief Security Officer From Qualtrics, PayPal

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Meta Platforms Inc. tapped a veteran cybersecurity executive to serve as its next chief information security officer, filling a key opening after its former CISO announced plans to depart last month.

Assaf Keren will join Meta this week from software platform Qualtrics, where he spent the past two years in the top security post. Before that he held the same role at PayPal Holdings Inc. Keren will succeed Meta’s Guy Rosen, who will remain CISO through a transition period for several months before leaving the company later this year, a spokesperson said.

“Few organizations carry the responsibility Meta does,” Keren said Wednesday in a LinkedIn post, who added that he’ll be focused on building security and trust into the company’s artificial intelligence systems and underlying infrastructure.

Rosen, who joined Meta in 2013 when it was still called Facebook, has held several high-profile roles inside the company, including overseeing the company’s election integrity work following the 2016 election, and more recently, integrating AI into internal business operations.Read More: Meta’s Rosen, Former Head of Election Integrity, to Depart