Rubrik, a data security company, announced the appointment of Chris Krebs as Chair of its new CISO Advisory Board. In this role, Krebs will create and lead a strategic CISO advisory board to help private, and public sector organizations tackle the unprecedented growth of cyberattacks, including ransomware. A founding partner of the Krebs Stamos Group, Krebs most recently served as the first director of CISA and brings distinguished expertise on cybersecurity on a global scale —
from a federal and organizational perspective.
Krebs joined the Department of Homeland Security in 2017 after several years on Microsoft’s U.S. Government Affairs team, where he led the company’s U.S. policy work on cybersecurity and technology issues. He also is a non-resident senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center and a senior Newmark fellow in cybersecurity at The Aspen Institute.