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Semperis Appoints Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to Its Strategic Advisory Board
October 2023 by Marc Jacob
Semperis announced the appointment of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to its strategic advisory board. In his role, Turnbull will support the company as it pursues its mission to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive identity system defense, with a focus on the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and Asia Pacific (APAC) regions.
Identity systems such as Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), used in over 90% of enterprises, are coming under sustained attack. Gartner predicts 75% of security failures are attributed to not managing identities, access, and privileges, up from 50% in previous years. Semperis is the only vendor providing defense-in-depth for hybrid AD environments and other directory services including Okta, across prevention, detection, response, and recovery, all supported by industry-leading incident response expertise.
As Australia’s 29th Prime Minister, Turnbull launched the country’s first national cybersecurity strategy. The program was Australia’s first formalised approach to cyber security, with a $230 million investment across 33 initiatives and the establishment of the National Cyber Security Centre. Before entering politics, Turnbull was a partner at Goldman Sachs, co-founded the Australian Internet company OzEmail Ltd., established an investment banking firm and was a practicing lawyer.
Turnbull is the latest in a string of high-profile government and industry executives who have joined Semperis’ strategic advisory board, including former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, former CIA Director General Petraeus, Atrium Health CISO Todd Greene, and former CISOs of bp and Walmart. The news also comes after the company’s announcement of expansion into the ANZ and APAC markets with a local team distributed throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
