Kevin Brown, a U.S. Navy veteran and a cybersecurity professional, has been appointed chief information security officer at Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC).
He will report to SAIC Chief Information Officer Nathan Rogers and will manage the company’s cybersecurity strategy with oversight of threat intelligence, incident response, information governance, remediation, monitoring, business resilience, awareness, disaster recovery and other cyber areas, SAIC said Thursday.
Brown joined SAIC from medical device company Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX), where he was vice president and CISO.
He previously served as VP for Raytheon’s information security business. Prior to that, he spent more than a decade at SAIC, where he served as a senior VP and operations manager for the Reston, Virginia-based technology services contractor’s information security business.
“His knowledge of cybersecurity operations and the threats that cyber professionals face on a daily basis positions Kevin as the expert SAIC needs to protect the critical systems and data for our company as well as our customers,” Rogers said.
