Olivier Martinet becomes CISO of TX Group
Olivier Martinet will assume the role of Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at TX Group effective June 2022. He succeeds Andreas Schneider, who has decided to take on a new challenge outside the Group.
TX Group's cybersecurity has been built up in particular over the past three and a half years under the aegis of Andreas Schneider and his team, the group wrote in a statement.
Schneider focused primarily on increasing the security of the products and introduced security in agile application development with various technologies and initiatives. He also strengthened cloud security and launched several bug bounty programs, through which external researchers and hackers search for vulnerabilities in TX Group products. (Werbewoche.ch reported).
In order to increase IT security for TX Group employees, the entire end device and network infrastructure was rebuilt and security for the use of private devices in the business environment was increased.
Olivier Martinet, who has been with the TX Group for around eight years, will take over the role of Group Chief Information Security Officer in June 2022. Together with Schneider, he played a key role in the development and implementation of the new cybersecurity.
Even before establishing the role of Security Officer, he increased IT security within the Group, for example by introducing a password policy and IT security training for employees. Martinet was also involved in the successful defense against various DDos attacks.
