Earlier this week we added two new members to the team: retired U.S. Army Major General John Davis and Sir Iain Lobban. We\u2019re honored two decorated military and intelligence leaders have joined Palo Alto Networks, and we\u2019re confident they\u2019ll bring their decades of experience to further enhance the company\u2019s cybersecurity strategy and global policy expertise.<\/p>\n
Retired U.S. Army\u00a0Major\u00a0General John Davis joins us from the Department of Defense and will serve as Vice President and Federal\u00a0Chief Security Officer (CSO) here at Palo Alto\u00a0Networks. His responsibilities include expanding cybersecurity initiatives and global policy for the\u00a0international public sector and assisting\u00a0governments around the world in successfully preventing cybersecurity attacks. He\u00a0left the Pentagon in May 2015 as the Senior Military Advisor for Cyber to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy. Prior to this assignment, Davis\u00a0served in multiple leadership positions in special operations, information operations, and cyber, earning multiple military decorations. \u00a0We\u2019re honored he\u2019s joined the team and confident his decades of experience will further enhance our\u00a0cybersecurity strategy and global policy expertise.<\/p>\n
Sir Iain Lobban has joined the Palo Alto Networks\u00a0Public Sector Advisory Council<\/a>, which serves as a sounding board for the Palo Alto Networks roadmap and vision for the needs of the international public sector, as well as strategy and policy relevant to global cybersecurity. \u00a0An internationally respected leader, he was the Director of\u00a0Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in the United Kingdom\u00a0from 2008 to 2014, having served as the Director General of Operations from 2004 to 2008.\u00a0 This is where Lobban<\/a>\u00a0pioneered an integrated service of intelligence and security. \u00a0A partner and senior strategy adviser at C5 Holdings, he is also on the Board Financial Crime Risk Committee\u00a0at Standard Chartered Bank.<\/p>\n These distinguished public servants will be tremendous allies in our efforts to prevent cyberattacks around the world. Welcome to the team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this week we added two new members to the team: retired U.S. Army Major General John Davis and Sir Iain Lobban. We\u2019re honored two decorated military and intelligence leaders have joined …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,89,155,484],"tags":[1073],"coauthors":[1179],"class_list":["post-10471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-ciociso","category-cybersecurity-2","category-government","tag-public-sector-advisory-council"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10472,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions\/10472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}