Exclusive: Ex-NSA Cyber Boss Named Fortinet Information Security Chief

Philip Quade, former special assistant for cyber to the director of the National Security Agency, has joined the network security company Fortinet as its first chief information security officer.
After more than a three decade-long career in the intelligence community, the former chief of NSA's cyber task force joined Fortinet (FTNT) to take charge of its digital defenses as well as to lead its federal and critical infrastructure business, the company told Fortune. Quade's duties will also involve consulting on strategy with Fortinet customers, which have included the Nasdaq (NDAQ) stock exchange, Yahoo Japan, and the Boston Red Sox. In his last government assignment, Quade's mission was, he likes to tell his kids, to "keep the country safe." It's that same compulsion, he told Fortune, that "has taken me from Fort Meade to Fortinet."