Kylie is the Head of Security for DXC Technology for the APJ MEA Region (ANZ, ASEAN, India, Greater China, Japan, Middle East and Africa). She is responsible for security across infrastructure, applications and services including cyber defence, digital identity, secured infrastructure and security risk management.
Kylie joined the Army at 17 years old ending up in Engineers and staying for 10 years. A fascination with how command structures, decoys, psyops, and group behaviour led her to complete a Masters degree in Sociology where she then applied human patterns of behaviour to improve engineering infrastructure projects in her civilian career. She’s taken her leadership skills into cyber security and her sociological insights have been applied to analysing cyber criminal behaviour as well as security operations responses.
She’s worked with the NZDF, ADF, the Bundeswehr, and the Singapore Ministry of Defence on a variety of projects. Today Kylie leads a team of almost 1,000 cyber security specialists across more than 2,500 accounts driving innovation, automation, and AI across the region to improve cyber defence including vulnerability management, better cyber risk posture insights, decision making, compliance, modernisation and secure technology uplift for her clients.
She is a technologist and a sociologist with deep research experience in cyber criminals and forensics and has published many papers in academic peer reviewed journals on cyber security and risk for new technologies such as predictive analytics, AI and Quantum, as well as thought papers on digital identity and privacy. She has degrees in Cyber Security and Data Management (GPA 7), English, History and Sociology, Diplomas in Management and Teaching and multiple certifications in Cloud services (AWS and Google), Quantum and Security by Design
