| Ben AungExecutive Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, & Global Chief Information Security Officer, Sage Group Ben joined Sage Group as Global CISO in 2018 after 16 years in the British Government. Sage is the UK’s largest technology company and the world's leading provider of integrated accounting, payroll, and payments systems to entrepreneurs and small and medium businesses. At Sage, Ben is responsible for protecting the global technology estate, products, and cloud services for 3 million customers in 23 countries. |
In 2018, Ben left the UK Government as Deputy Government Chief Security Officer, based in the Cabinet Office. Ben was responsible for all aspects of protective security policy and coordination across 48 government departments and over 400,000 civil servants. Ben’s remit included cyber and information security, personnel security, counterterrorism, counterespionage, and investigation of serious incidents and breaches, including contravention of the Official Secrets Act. While in government Ben led transformative security reforms to redesign organizational structures, unlock government access to commodity technology and public cloud and modernize decades old security policies and practices.