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Allan Alford joins Forcepoint as CISO
November 2017 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Forcepoint announced that Allan Alford has joined the company as chief information security officer (CISO).
Alford leads Forcepoint’s corporate security and governance program, including the
implementation of the company’s internal user and data protection program for 2,700
employees worldwide. As Forcepoint’s CISO, he plays a key role in leading the
compliance and certification efforts for Forcepoint’s security offerings and
partners with engineering teams to drive best practices and real-world learnings
into security product development. Alford reports to Meerah Rajavel, Forcepoint,
chief information officer, and is based in the Austin, Texas headquarters.
With more than 25 years of IT and security experience, Alford joined Forcepoint from
Pearson, where he was product and business information security officer. Prior to
that, Alford held various IT and security positions at Polycom, where he built and
managed the product security program and served most recently as CISO. He is
currently pursuing a master’s degree in information systems and security from Our
Lady of the Lake University and received a bachelor’s degree with a focus on
leadership from DePaul University.
