TransUnion announced the appointment of industry veteran Bill Shields as the company’s new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Shields comes to TransUnion from Visa and has more than 22 years of experience including senior leadership roles within information security for the last decade. Shields will lead a global organization supporting end-to-end information security efforts and guide the evolution of TransUnion’s comprehensive information security risk-based program according to numerous industry, regulatory, and best practice requirements. During his two stints at Visa, Shields was most recently the senior vice president of CyberSecurity where he developed and implemented the global strategy behind the company’s defense and engineering program focused on prevention, detection and response of threats. He also led the security assessment, integration, and control enhancements of the company’s acquisitions. Earlier in his career at Visa, Bill was responsible for leading the Cyber Engineering and Analytics organization. This work included the strategy, design, implementation, visibility, and operations of core cybersecurity tools.