Steve Frank, a cybersecurity executive leader, has been appointed chief information security officer at KPMG, he announced on LinkedIn Wednesday.
In addition, Frank will serve the same role for KPMG Americas, the New York-based member firm of the multinational professional services network. The executive succeeds John Israel for both positions. Israel has been elevated to KPMG’s global AI security and data security lead.
Steve Frank’s Career History
Frank most recently served as deputy CISO and executive director of the cyber risk defense center, or CRDC, at Kaiser Permanente, a not-for-profit healthcare organization. Aside from providing leadership and guidance to enterprise cybersecurity initiatives, Frank also spearheaded the CRDC’s operations. He was responsible for cyber threat incident detection and response, digital forensics, e-discovery, threat intelligence, detection engineering, countermeasures, hunt operations, privacy monitoring, SOC infrastructure and crisis response functions.
He was also a member of the board of advisors at Praetorian.
Notably, the executive served in the CIA for more than 15 years. Frank joined the agency in 2006 and spent the first six years serving in various risk analyst roles and as an information system security manager. He was later elevated to technical director of the cyber technology office, chief of cyber defense and D-CISO of the CIA.
