Retail ISAC hires new director, other security officials

The Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center, which houses the Retail Information Sharing and Analysis Center, has hired four new security professionals to bolster the Retail ISAC team, the R-CISC announced Wednesday.

Tommy McDowell, a former cybersecurity lead at Booz Allen Hamilton and FireEye, will lead the R-ISAC as the senior director, saying in a statement he believes the R-ISAC “serves a crucial function for industry, helping us to collectively strengthen our defenses against the bad actors working together against us."...