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ASIC security and data chiefs to leave in December
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is recruiting for new security and data chiefs after two senior executives resigned.
Chief information security officer Jamie Norton is expected to stay until mid-December, while data, analytics and AI leader Graham Jefferson will leave in December.
ASIC has not appointed interim replacements and has begun formal recruitment for both roles.
Jefferson’s position is being renamed chief data and analytics officer.
The incoming security chief will join ASIC during the third year of a four-year cybersecurity transformation program.
ASIC has also created a contract CTO role for RegistryConnect, its program to stabilise and improve business registers through the end of the 2027-28 financial year.
The new CTO will report to senior responsible officer Paul Franklin and oversee technology and security work on the program.
ASIC’s security chief Jamie Norton and data chief Graham Jefferson have resigned and are due to leave in December.
Norton is expected to remain in the CISO role until mid-December, while Jefferson will also leave that month.
ASIC has started recruiting permanent replacements and has made no interim or acting appointments.
Jefferson’s role is being renamed chief data and analytics officer.
ASIC has also created a contract CTO role to oversee technology and security work for its RegistryConnect program.
- Who
- ASIC security chief Jamie Norton and data chief Graham Jefferson have resigned.
- What
- Both are due to leave in December, and ASIC is recruiting permanent replacements.
- When
- Norton is expected to stay until mid-December; both departures are due in December.
- Where
- The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).
- Why
- Not stated
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
iTnews reported that Norton and Jefferson had resigned and ASIC had begun recruiting permanent replacements.
Norton is expected to leave the CISO role.
Jefferson is due to leave ASIC.
- CISO
- Jamie Norton
- Data chief
- Graham Jefferson
- Norton's departure
- Mid-December
- Jefferson's departure
- December
- New data role title
- Chief data and analytics officer (CDAO)
- RegistryConnect program end
- Financial year 2027-28
What people are saying
ASIC’s registers include the companies, business names, professional, and banned and disqualified persons registers
stabilising and uplifting [its] business registers until the end of financial year 2027-28