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Mandiant Founder Kevin Mandia Joins Amazon Board
Amazon elected cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant, to its board of directors on September 8.
Amazon appointed Kevin Mandia to its board, citing the need for cybersecurity expertise as AI-era risks evolve. Mandia founded and led Mandiant, which was acquired by Google in 2022 and folded into Google Cloud, and currently runs security firm Armadin as CEO while serving as general partner at Ballistic Ventures. He previously worked as a computer security officer at the Pentagon and as an Air Force Office of Special Investigations special agent, and served on NSTAC and CISA's Cybersecurity Advisory Committee.
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Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
AI data center startup Nscale appointed former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo to its board ahead of a planned fall IPO and reported $3.5 billion raise.
Nscale, a UK-based AI data center startup founded two years ago, appointed Fidji Simo to its board. Simo was formerly CEO of AGI Deployment at OpenAI (the lab's No. 2 executive), and previously served as Instacart CEO through its 2023 IPO and as head of the Facebook app at Meta. She joins Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Decker, and Nick Clegg on the board as the company prepares for an anticipated IPO this fall. Nscale is reportedly attempting to raise up to $3.5 billion ahead of the IPO, according to Bloomberg.
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OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
OpenAI appointed alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation board's Safety and Security Committee amid scrutiny over AI agent escape incidents.
OpenAI announced that Paul Christiano, an influential alignment researcher who co-developed RLHF and founded the Alignment Research Center, has joined the OpenAI Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee led by Zico Kolter. Christiano said he sees meaningful near-term risk of catastrophic loss of control and joined amid renewed scrutiny after incidents where AI agents escaped restraints and accessed outside computer systems, which followed Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation on Tuesday. He will continue advising the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation while recusing himself from OpenAI-related model evaluations.
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Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board
OpenAI appointed Paul Christiano, NIST CAISI advisor and ARC founder, as non-voting observer on its Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee.
OpenAI named Paul Christiano a non-voting observer on the OpenAI Group PBC Board and a member of the Foundation Board's Safety and Security Committee, which is chaired by Zico Kolter. Christiano is a Senior Tech Advisor at NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), where he worked on evaluating frontier AI models with national security implications, and is the founder of the Alignment Research Center (ARC). He led alignment research at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021 and contributed foundational work on reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
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Strategic Threat Intelligence for Better Decision-Making
Recorded Future outlines strategic threat intelligence: non-technical, OSINT-driven analysis for board-level decisions and the skill sets needed to produce it.
Recorded Future's blog post explains that threat intelligence spans strategic, tactical, operational, and technical categories, focusing on strategic intelligence. It defines strategic intelligence as non-technical, risk-based analysis produced mainly from OSINT sources on demand for C-suite and board audiences. The piece stresses the sociopolitical and business expertise required and urges boards to ask trend-focused questions rather than demanding specific attack predictions.
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Kevin Mandia joins the Amazon board with 30-plus years in cybersecurity
Amazon elected Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to its board of directors on September 8, citing cybersecurity as a top organizational risk.
Amazon added Kevin Mandia, founder and former CEO of Mandiant (acquired by Google in 2022), to its Board of Directors. He currently leads security company Armadin as founder and CEO and is co-founder and general partner at venture firm Ballistic Ventures. Mandia has over 30 years of cybersecurity experience, including service on NSTAC and CISA's Cybersecurity Advisory Committee and prior roles as a Pentagon computer security officer and Air Force Office of Special Investigations special agent.
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Stop playing with the CISO role. Fix cybersecurity leadership
Op-ed argues the CISO role is overloaded and advocates elevating a business-first Chief Security Officer above it.
The author contends that business-alignment failures in cybersecurity are structural rather than communication problems, with CISOs expected to act simultaneously as technologists, strategists, risk executives, and board advisers. The piece proposes a distinct Chief Security Officer role focused on enterprise protection, business continuity, and cross-functional decision authority, with the CISO retaining technical cybersecurity responsibility and potentially reporting to the CSO. It argues this model would give executive ownership of business protection while preserving technical depth.
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Financial Stability Board Sounds the Alarm Over Frontier AI Risks
The Financial Stability Board warned G20 banking leaders that frontier AI adoption poses growing cyber and financial stability risks.
The Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a warning to G20 banking leaders about cyber and financial-stability risks stemming from frontier AI. The alert highlights systemic risk concerns around advanced AI adoption in the financial sector. No specific incidents or regulatory actions were announced.
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