--- title: "Andrew Becherer Joins Socket as Chief Information Security O..." url: https://daily.dev/posts/andrew-becherer-joins-socket-as-chief-information-security-o--excedwata source_url: https://socket.dev/blog/andrew-becherer-socket-ciso type: article source: "Socket" published: 2026-06-11T17:57:40.936Z updated: 2026-06-11T17:58:07.227Z tags: ["security", "open-source"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Andrew Becherer Joins Socket as Chief Information Security O... **[Socket](https://daily.dev/sources/socketdev)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Socket has appointed Andrew Becherer as its first Chief Information Security Officer. Becherer brings extensive experience as CISO at Datadog, Iterable, and Sublime Security, as well as founding Staris AI. Socket, which now protects over 27,000 organizations, made the hire to provide dedicated executive leadership for security, compliance, and risk as open source supply chain threats intensify — particularly with AI-generated code increasingly pulling in unreviewed packages. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Socket raises $60M Series C at a $1B valuation to secure sof...](https://daily.dev/posts/socket-raises-60m-series-c-at-a-1b-valuation-to-secure-sof--v2yclk1kp) · Socket · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Socket Selected for OpenAI's Cybersecurity Grant Program](https://daily.dev/posts/socket-selected-for-openai-s-cybersecurity-grant-program-tc5qjhhog) · Socket · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Socket Named a Supply Chain Innovator in Latio's 2026 Applic...](https://daily.dev/posts/socket-named-a-supply-chain-innovator-in-latio-s-2026-applic--13r2qcnvy) · Socket · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Feross on the 10 Minutes or Less Podcast: Nobody Reads the C...](https://daily.dev/posts/feross-on-the-10-minutes-or-less-podcast-nobody-reads-the-c--cmjcbhsou) · Socket · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/andrew-becherer-joins-socket-as-chief-information-security-o--excedwata)