The Department of Defence has begun searching for a new chief information security officer after losing its last ICT security assistant secretary. The department put out the call for a “dynamic and outstanding senior executive” to fill the vacancy on Thursday, three months after CISO Lindsay Morgan left for a private sector gig. Morgan, who left the top job after just 11 months in March, has since joined SAP as its Australia/New Zealand director for government security.
His prior roles at the department over the last 10 years included director of cybersecurity operations as well as in security assurance and vulnerability management.
The new CISO, who like Morgan will also lead the chief information officer group’s (CIOG) ICT security branch, will become Defence’s principal ICT security advisor...MORE
