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CYBER SECURITY OPINION

organisations can return to “business as capabilities also throw up new cyber security challenges, with greater opportunity for
usual”. One essential component of such cyber criminals to disable critical infrastructure and cause huge upheaval at a societal
resilience is to create and implement level. Cyber security should be at the forefront of public sector and business leaders’
thorough cyber security training exercises minds. A comprehensive cyber security strategy that works in alignment between
amongst workforces. This not only governments and industry is a key component to post pandemic recovery for businesses,
prepares employees to identify security national economies and citizens around the world.
risks and lures, but also heightens Cyber security is more than just an insurance policy against attacks. Cyber resilience,
awareness and reinforces the need for if implemented effectively, can help turbocharge long-term economic prosperity and
teamwork, skills and collaboration across innovation, and provide the digital defences crucial to our modern world. n
the whole organisation.
Frontier technology solutions are References
the forces driving digital transformation. 1. WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook report 2022
They offer us all a bright and exciting 2. WEF Global Cybersecurity Outlook report 2022
digital future. However, advanced 3. https://www.fundera.com/resources/small-business-cyber-security-statistics

APPOINTMENTS

Ukheshe appoints Lee Ziervogel as COO
Ukheshe has appointed Lee Ziervogel as chief operating officer. Her people-centric approach ensured her success as
president of customer delivery and success at Ukheshe before stepping into the role of COO.
Ziervogel is a qualified chartered accountant. She has worked in multiple industries including financial services,
technology and mobile, as well as the public sector and professional services where she led business transformation and
strategy execution, together with solution design and implementation.

Red Hat names Carolyn Nash as senior vice president and chief operating officer
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open-source solutions, announced that Carolyn Nash has been named
the company’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. As part of this move, Red Hat is
building out the finance and operations organisation and has named Robert Leibrock senior vice president and chief
financial officer and Jim Palermo as vice president and chief information officer. Nash will continue reporting to Red Hat’s
president and chief executive officer, Matt Hicks. Leibrock and Palermo will report directly to Nash.
Nash most recently served as Red Hat’s senior vice president and chief financial officer and was responsible for
leading the company’s global finance organisation. Before assuming the CFO role in early 2022, Nash was vice president
of finance, overseeing the global finance transformation and operations (GTO) organisation. She has played an integral
part in strengthening and growing the company’s finance operation. Before Red Hat, she served in leadership positions at
Cisco, Hewlett Packard and KPMG in finance and operational roles.
Leibrock brings 20 years of experience in both the financial and operational space to Red Hat. He has spent much of his career at IBM, most
recently serving as assistant controller, and was responsible for enterprise-wide financial management, including forecasts, measurements and
IBM’s operational management system. He also played a key role in IBM’s $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat in 2019, responsible for the overall
project office, finance and operations functions and driving offering synergies.

Palermo has nearly 30 years of experience in information technology, spanning technical and leadership roles. He joined Red Hat in 2010 and most
recently served as vice president of Digital Solutions Delivery (DSD) where he was responsible for developing and driving the environment, tools
and delivery for hosting internal workloads both in the hybrid cloud and in Red Hat’s next-generation data centres.

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