Michael Mestrovich, former chief information security officer of the CIA, has been named CISO at cloud data management software provider Rubrik.
Mestrovich, who has more than two decades of information technology and security experience, will be responsible for overseeing Rubrik’s internal data security initiatives and policy, the company said Wednesday.
He spent more than six years at the CIA, where he most recently led the development and implementation of the intelligence agency’s cybersecurity regulations.
The U.S. Air Force veteran also served as principal deputy chief information officer at the State Department’s Bureau of Information Resource Management and chief architect for the Intelligence Community Desktop Joint Program Management Office, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Mestrovich was a systems engineer at Cisco before he joined the federal government,
