RingCentral Appoints Security Expert Heather Hinton as Chief Information Security Officer
January 07, 2021 at 12:00 pm
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RingCentral, Inc. announced that Heather Hinton has joined as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Hinton joins RingCentral from IBM, where she spent 13 years in various leadership positions, most recently as vice president and IBM distinguished engineer, and CISO for the company’s Cloud and Cognitive Software business unit.
Hinton brings more than 30 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) and cyber security expertise to RingCentral. Over the years, she has led product design and architecture, development, and sales and support for several organizations and was instrumental in bringing Privacy by Design thinking into IBM’s Security and Privacy by Design discipline in response to emerging privacy requirements.
RingCentral, Inc. is a provider of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cloud business communications, contact center, video, and hybrid event solutions. The Companyâs cloud-based business communications, collaboration, and customer engagement solutions function across multiple locations and devices, including smartphones, tablets, personal computers (PCs) and desk phones. The Company offers a fully integrated business communications platform, which includes cloud private branch exchanges (PBX), cloud contact center, video meetings and webinars, and events. Its product portfolio includes RingCentral MVP, Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS), RingCentral Video, RingCentral Events, and RingSense. RingCentral MVP is a unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) platform, which includes team messaging, video meetings, and a cloud phone system. RingCentral Video is a video meeting solution with team messaging that enables smart video meetings, rooms solutions, and webinars.
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