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Board-level cybersecurity expertise is a specific credential, not a general one. Amazon said Kevin Mandia, the founder and former CEO of cybersecurity company Mandiant, is joining its board of directors.
Mandia departed Google roughly two years before the appointment. Mandia's operating history sits at the founder-CEO level of the security industry.
He created Mandiant and served as its chief executive, accumulating practitioner knowledge that sits differently inside a boardroom than the policy, regulatory, or government security backgrounds that more commonly appear in technology company governance.
His subsequent time inside Google layered the perspective of a large technology company onto that foundation.
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