Specialist insurance provider, CFC, has hired Jason Hart as Head of Proactive Cyber, where he will be responsible for leading the continued development of CFC’s cyber threat analysis, vulnerability and threat detection service.
Hart has over 20 years of experience in creating and developing information security offerings and services.
In his most recent role, he served as Chief Technology Officer – EMEA at Nasdaq-listed cybersecurity platform, Rapid7.
In addition, he also supported a number of cyber security and technology businesses as a board advisor.
A career highlight for Hart, is that he founded one of the UK’s first ethical hacking companies, WhiteHat Security, and the cloud-based authentication SaaS platform, CRYPTOCard.
Addressing his new role, Hart said: “I am thrilled to be joining CFC to head up their proactive cyber capabilities. CFC is well known as an early pioneer in cyber insurance and an innovator in proactive threat prevention. I look forward to aligning my cybersecurity experience with the team’s deep knowledge and cutting-edge proprietary technology, to continue providing a market leading solution.”
“CFC has led the cyber insurance market in developing products that not only respond to cyber events, but seek to prevent them from occurring in the first place,” said Jonathan Fletcher, Chief Technology Officer at CFC
Adding: “In our view, proactively working to minimise cyber risk so that our customers can spend more time operating their businesses with confidence and thrive in today’s highly connected world, is the single most important job for any cyber insurer.
“Jason combines his technical skills with a pragmatic view on security, the ability to build teams, and to drive innovation and disruptive offerings at a global scale. I can’t think of a better person to help us accelerate the evolution of our proactive cyber service with new cutting-edge proprietary technology.”
