Intel Hires Window Snyder As Company's First Chief Software Security Officer
Intel is continuing to expand its security leadership roster in the aftermath of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities disclosure with the recent hire of an Apple veteran.
Window Snyder, who worked for five years on security and privacy strategy for iOS and Mac OS X at Apple, has been hired as Intel's first chief software security officer, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company announced on Monday. She will begin on July 9 in the company's Software and Services Group as vice president and general manager of the Intel Platform Security Division.
The Intel Platform Security Division is separate from the Intel Product Assurance and Security Group, which was established in January shortly after the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in Intel processors were disclosed. The Product Assurance and Security Group was established with longtime Intel executive Leslie Culbertson as its leader, who has said that the team is "designed as a center of security excellence — a sort of mission control — that looks across all of Intel."
