Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Inc. on Monday named Laurel Finch as chief legal officer. Finch joins the Sunnyvale, California-based company from MobileIron Inc., a mobile device management company where she served as general counsel for more than four years.

In emailed responses sent to Corporate Counsel, Finch said she took the new job for two reasons: because data breaches and emerging legal requirements for cybersecurity are top of mind for C-suite executives and board members, and because CrowdStrike is the company best suited to help.

“I believe that the trend is that data security and privacy best practices are increasingly getting codified into law — whether that's the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or the NY State DFS Cybersecurity regulation or the California Attorney General's 2016 data breach report, in which the AG set forth her interpretation of what constitutes 'reasonable' security for the purpose of California's data security statute,” Finch said. “CrowdStrike's products and services both prevent data breaches and also play an important role in helping CIOs meet these new legal requirements.”