GitLab Inc. (NASDAQ: GTLB) announced the appointment of Chaim Mazal as Chief Information Security Officer. Mazal will lead the company's global security organization and oversee security for both GitLab as a company and as a platform.

Mazal brings 15 years of security leadership experience to the role. He most recently served as Chief AI and Security Officer at Gigamon, where he led security operations and the company's AI program. He has also held senior security leadership positions at Kandji and ActiveCampaign.

The new CISO serves on advisory boards for Cloudflare, Rapid7, Axonius, and Bugcrowd. Mazal was a GitLab customer for more than eight years and previously joined the company's advisory board before accepting the CISO position.

"The faster agents move, the more critical it becomes that developers find and fix security vulnerabilities before code hits production," said Bill Staples, CEO at GitLab. "Having spent years as a GitLab customer, Chaim understands the GitLab platform the way builders do."

Mazal stated that his focus will include addressing AI-driven security challenges. "Frontier models are rewriting what's possible in software security. AI-driven attacks are compressing exploitation timelines, while agents expose teams to risks they aren't equipped to govern yet," he said.

GitLab describes itself as an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. The company reports having more than 50 million registered users and states that approximately 50% of Fortune 100 companies use its platform.