Truist Financial Corporation announced that Howard Whyte has joined the company as chief information security officer (CISO). Whyte is an industry veteran with more than 20 years' experience as an executive leader of information technology and security in the federal government, military and private sector. Whyte was most recently CISO and vice president of information security for The Boeing Company.

Prior to that, he served as chief information officer and chief privacy officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, led the Threat Management Center at Goldman Sachs and served as the CISO at NASA.