Yahoo! Appoints Bob Lord As Chief Information Security Officer - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) announced that Bob Lord will join as the Company's Chief Information Security Officer or CISO. Lord brings more than twenty years of significant experience in the information security space, including most recently as the CISO-in-Residence at Rapid 7. Prior to that, Lord led Twitter's information security program and held positions in product and information security at companies like Red Hat, AOL, and Netscape.

The company noted that Lord will lead Yahoo's security team -- known as the Paranoids -- in offensive and defensive protection of the Company's more than one billion users around the world, and for Yahoo's employees globally. Lord will work closely across all of the Company's teams and collaboratively within the industry to ensure that Yahoo continues to provide the highest level of security possible to their users.