Salesforce Names Heroku Head of Trust

Salesforce has named Trey Ford, former general manager of the Black Hat hacking conference, head of trust for Heroku, the platform as a service company Salesforce acquired in 2010.

Ford told Reuters on Monday that he will be responsible for cybersecurity and reliability of Heroku in his new role.

Previously, Ford was security response manager at Zynga and held various positions with Rapid7, McAfee and WhiteHat Security. Ford continues to support Black Hat in his role on its Review Board where he reviews submissions for trainings and briefings, according to his LinkedIn. He is also an advisory board member for (ISC)² and BugCrowd.

Last week, Heroku announced a new feature, called Heroku Teams, which lets groups of software developers manage different projects, permissions, and people with centralized administration and billing. The new feature is available for free for up to five users.

Earlier this year, Heroku Private Spaces became generally available after being in beta since September as part of the Salesforce App Cloud launch. According to Heroku, Private Spaces is “a new Heroku runtime designed from the ground up to meet the trust and control requirements of the most demanding applications.”

Source: TheWHIR