Goldman, CIA Veteran to Advise SEC’s Clayton on Cybersecurity

A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. executive who spent 30 years at the CIA has a new job assisting SEC Chairman Jay Clayton with cyber issues.

Kevin Zerrusen will be Clayton’s senior adviser for cybersecurity policy after working as a Goldman managing director for five years, the Securities and Exchange Commission said June 3. Zerrusen managed efforts to improve insider threat programs, incident management, and technology risk governance at Goldman. He previously ran the CIA’s cyber center when he was at the agency, helping it fight foreign threats.

He will advise the SEC on how to meet its cyber responsibilities and ...