Philip Martin Joins Uber as Chief Information Security Officer

Philip Martin has joined Uber as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Martin joins the ride-hailing company from Coinbase, where he served as Chief Security Officer since April 2016. There, he led a global team of more than 250 employees responsible for cybersecurity, Trust & Safety, physical security, technology governance, risk and compliance, and business resilience across Coinbase’s consumer and enterprise businesses. Before Coinbase, Martin built and led the Incident Response and Security Engineering teams at Palantir Technologies and helped develop virtual infrastructure at Amazon’s A9. Earlier in his career, he spent a decade as a U.S. Army counterintelligence agent and Arabic linguist, serving in tactical and strategic roles both in the United States and overseas. “What drew me here is simple: very few companies are responsible for real people moving through the real world at Uber’s scale, every minute of every day,” Martin wrote in a LinkedIn post. “Security at many companies protects data. At Uber, it also protects trips, riders, drivers, and couriers; real people in motion. This is an important responsibility that I’m excited to take on.” Join the 2026 CISO Forum | Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay WRITTEN BY SecurityWeek News More from SecurityWeek News Webinar Today: Modern Exposure Validation in the AI Era In Other News: Apple Patches Beats Eavesdropping Flaw, DOT Closes Delta CrowdStrike Probe, AWS Continuum Webinar Today: How Modern Breaches Bypass MFA and Evade Detection Endpoint Security Startup Ent Emerges From Stealth With $100 Million Seed Round In Other News: Google Security Layoffs, AudiA6 Takedown, $400 Million Coupang Fine CISO Forum Webinar Today: 2026 Mid-Year Review A Security Raises $37 Million for Autonomous Offensive Security Platform In Other News: Anthropic Maps AI Threats, Unpatched Comodo Flaw, Palantir Chief Eyed for CISA Latest News New Enterprise-Ready MCP Specification Brings New Security Challenges Runlayer Raises $30 Million in Series A Funding Cal Water Says No OT Systems Breached in Iranian Handala Cyberattack Lantronix Serial-to-IP Converter Flaw Exploited in Attacks After OT Threat Warning GitLab Patches Code Execution, Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities 25-Year-Old Vulnerability Patched in Curl SecurityWeek ICS Cybersecurity Conference Heads to Nashville for Special 25-Year Anniversary Edition NIST Opens Updated IoT Security Guidance to Public Review Trending Webinar: Why Email Security Keeps Failing (And What Has To Change) July 8, 2026 Join this live webinar as we break down why email-layer defenses alone can't keep pace with the modern phishing ecosystem, how agentic AI is changing the capacity equation for security teams, and more. Register Virtual Event: 2026 Cloud Security Summit July 16, 2026 This year's summit will help organizations learn how to utilize tools, controls, and design models needed to properly secure cloud environments. Interact with leading solution providers and other end users facing similar challenges in securing a variety of cloud deployments. Register People on the Move Philip Martin has joined Uber as Chief Information Security Officer. Fable Security has appointed Jacob Berry as Chief Information Security Officer. iCOUNTER has named Ali Waezzadah as Chief Information Security Officer. More People On The Move Expert Insights When Information Becomes The Attack Surface – Understanding AI Agent Traps From hidden content injections to cognitive state poisoning, attackers are turning trusted data sources into traps for autonomous AI. (Etay Maor) What The Latest ShinyHunters Breaches Reveal About Modern Cyberattacks Groups like ShinyHunters are demonstrating that attackers do not necessarily need malware or zero-day exploits to cause massive damage. (Torsten George) No Exploits Required Four decades of incident response experience suggest that exploits are often the symptom, not the root cause, of today’s cybersecurity failures. (Tod Beardsley) After AI Reaches Production: 12 Ways Security Teams Can Take Control Security teams need more than visibility into AI applications, they need a repeatable framework for monitoring, investigating, and defending them in production. (Joshua Goldfarb) Everybody Is Vibe Coding But Nobody Told The Security Team AI-driven development is not something organizations can or should block. But it must be governed. (Danelle Au) Flipboard Reddit Whatsapp Email