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Senior Director, Regional CSO Asia Pacific
The Okta Security team’s mission is to strengthen Okta’s position as the leading Identity-as-a-Service solution through identifying and resolving risks to the employees, product, and most importantly, our customers.
The Security Trust & Culture team works to ensure the public perception of Okta’s trustworthy customer experience mirrors the reality of the identity products our teams build. We serve as a strategic resource working closely with Okta’s GTM teams as the external voice for Okta’s security and compliance. It's our role to manage the Okta security brand and shape the security culture of the company.
Through our continued focus and innovative methods, we aim to ensure that:
- When people think of Okta, they think of a leading zero trust cybersecurity company
- When people work at Okta, they role model security behaviors to meet the high standard we set for security internally
The Senior Director, Regional CSO APAC is a key member of the Field Security team within Security Trust & Culture. Field Security has Regional CSOs for US West, US East, EMEA, APAC and Japan. This team is responsible for security, compliance and assurance activities in collaboration with and building on other Security teams and resources globally. This role is focused on servicing the Asia Pacific region (primary offices in Sydney, Singapore and Bangalore), partnering heavily with the Regional CSO Japan and other Field Security leaders.
This position requires a strategic leader with strong collaboration and communication skills, plus detailed working knowledge of security and risk management practices globally and specific to APAC, aligned against the evolving threat landscape facing organizations. Regional support will be required from time to time outside of APAC, and this role could be expected to support EMEA, Americas, or globally depending on the needs of the business.
Responsibilities:
- As a senior security leader in APAC, the Regional CSO must be visible and engaged with customers on a regular basis, including:
- Preparing communications plans for security incidents should they occur, and define the process to manage relationships and outreach to customers, partners, and other stakeholders (in parallel and aligned with the global security team and Customer Trust)
- Educate the APAC market on Okta's security thinking direction and strategy, staying closely aligned with Okta Product and Product Security teams
- In addition, acting as the voice of Okta Security for customers in APAC and the surrounding region includes:
- Build our external security brand. Work with product marketing, communications and security teams to develop security-relevant outreach strategies, directly engaging customers around Okta's security product capabilities and amplifying Okta's relevance within the cybersecurity market
- Participate in and where possible drive the external conversation about the evolving threat landscape and effective defensive strategies and products:
- Be part of and drive conversations that shape or shine a spotlight on identity and security
- Communicate externally with knowledge and authority and drive the public conversation around security
- Leverage external networks and resources to ensure that Okta is always seen to be at the cutting edge of security
- Engage with Okta’s Product team to analyze customer security requirements and influence product roadmaps to steer security features for the Okta service
- Coordinate with the Customer Assurance function to provide the customer facing security support our customers expect within APAC, including customer audit assistance if required (working with our global Customer Audit team)
- Collaborate with executive management and sales leaders in APAC to assess near- and long-term security needs and formulate plans to address these needs
- Partner with the GTM organization to provide security assurance in the sales and contract renewal process
- Assist with support and maintenance of the security trust documentation portal and associated content to prospects and customers
- Stay current on market developments to identify emerging security technologies, risks and trends to ensure that we keep pace with security technology and risk landscape evolution
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in a related discipline
- 10+ years of experience with IT or information security
- Significant experience working with a global team
- Excellent written and verbal communication and influencing skills
- Significant Identity, Cloud technology and SaaS experience
- Experience with relevant Asia Pacific cross-industry regulatory frameworks highly regarded
- Experience interacting with media and media training highly regarded
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