ADP Security Chief Roland Cloutier Departs to Become Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at China-owned TikTok
TikTok, the controversial and wildly popular social video app maker, announced on Thursday that Roland Cloutier will join the company as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
TikTok is owned by Beijing-based startup Bytedance, and has been under fire and accused of being vulnerable to spying by the Chinese government.
Cloutier joins TikTok from ADP where he served as SVP and Chief Security Officer, overseeing the company's cyber, information protection, risk, workforce protection, crisis management, and investigative security operations worldwide.
As CSO at ADP, Cloutier was responsible for leading security initiatives for a company holding some of the most sensitive data for American and global companies. He also spent more than a decade serving the United States Air Force, Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs.
ADP is the largest payroll processing company in the United States and provides other business process outsourcing solutions for its customer base of more than 740,000 clients in across more than 140 countries.
Cloutier now will be tasked with protecting a social platform and mobile app ecosystem used by hundreds of millions of users creating and sharing short-form videos.
“Roland will work with a global team, but the Mountain View office is where we have largely focused on building out our security team, which he will lead,” a TikTok spokesperson told SecurityWeek.
While Cloutier may be able to help the company secure its platform and mobile applications, the company will still face challenges in maintaining trust, especially for users in the government and business sectors.
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