New Delhi, India, July 19, 2021: Linode, the world’s largest independent cloud
computing infrastructure provider, appointed Joseph Zhou as Chief
Information Security Officer (CISO).
Zhou will lead all aspects of security risk
management for Linode, including enterprise security architecture, governance,
product and platform security, network security, secure software development,
security awareness training, penetration and vulnerability management, identity
and access management, incident response, disaster recovery, business
continuity, and supply chain security risk management.
“Security is integral to everything we do,” said Christopher
Aker, founder and CEO of Linode. “And it is going to get harder and more
critical for companies to stay ahead of the onslaught of threats they face on a
daily basis. Joe’s wealth of experience building world class security
architecture and embedding it into the processes and products that sit on top
of that architecture will play a significant role in helping us harden the
cloud infrastructure millions of developers and companies have come to rely
on.”
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| Joseph Zhou |
In a February 2021 survey, Accelerated
Strategies Group asked 385 DevOps professionals to identify the most important
attributes for a cloud infrastructure service provider to possess. More than
50% of the responses ranked “Provides Excellent Data Security” as a critical
attribute. Fifty-eight percent cited security and privacy concerns as a
roadblock to using cloud infrastructure.
“Successfully implementing robust security controls
at a massive scale requires a strategic and calculated mindset. You have to
instill a methodically paranoid mindset across the company to cultivate a
healthy and strong security culture,” said Zhou. “Companies need to be
confident that their business is protected. They need to trust the providers
they work with. Linode runs on a foundation of developer trust. It’s my and my
team’s job to ensure that trust is maintained and strengthened.”
Zhou brings broad experience managing cyber security
practices at scale, as well as extensive architecture leadership and systems
engineering experience designing massively scalable security control systems
and instilling a secure-by-design approach to company culture. He previously
held CISO roles at Evive and Transworld Systems. At Evive he was responsible
for the company’s SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, and HITRUST security and privacy
compliance as well as the architecture and controls for commercial SaaS
platform, cloud, infrastructure and application security. Most recently at
Transworld Systems, he was responsible for security compliance controls
mandated by HIPAA, PCI DSS Service Level 1, SOC 1, SOC 2 and FedRAMP and
implemented innovative machine learning-based threat detection capabilities at
the company.
Zhou earned a Master of Computer Science in
Networking and Software Engineering from The University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities, a Master of Business Administration from The University of Chicago -
Booth School of Business, and an Advanced Cybersecurity Certificate from
Stanford University. He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Chief
Information Security Officer Certificate Program.
Zhou’s appointment follows recent expansion of
Linode’s senior leadership team including Will Charnock who joins as
CTO.
Linode also announced two new free security services
for developers building on the Linode cloud. Linode Cloud Firewall filters
traffic at the network level, giving developers more control over who can reach
their applications or data. Linode VLAN gives developers the ability
to create public or private networks between Linodes in the same data center.
Customers can find the full list of the free bundled services Linode offers
at https://www.linode.com/benefits/
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