Career profile
Chris Jacquet
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Unisys
- Role as of 18 October 2024, the date of the latest source
- Not stated in the sources
As of October 2024, Chris Jacquet was the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Unisys, establishing and maintaining the company's corporate-wide information security management program and working with executive management on compliance and risk decisions.
Career path
Jacquet built his early cybersecurity experience over a 26-year tenure at Hewlett-Packard, holding multiple leadership roles there.
He then became senior director of global IT security, compliance, risk management and governance at Symantec.
At Marketo he served as senior director of cloud security and compliance and acting CISO for cloud infrastructure, building and leading cross-functional teams to secure the company's software products.
From 2016 to 2022 he held progressively senior roles at Hitachi Vantara, serving as Vice President and CISO responsible for enterprise information security.
In September 2017 his Hitachi Vantara role expanded to include security governance of the company's products and services, and he was named America's Information Security Expert for all 70-plus subsidiary companies of Hitachi Ltd. in the Americas, leading cybersecurity strategy and execution for more than 13,000 employees across the business.
He has also worked as an angel investor with Silicon Valley CISO Investments.
Before joining Unisys, Jacquet served as CISO for Hertz, leading cybersecurity and compliance for the company's Information Technology and Vehicle Digital Security business.
At the Unisys Strategy and Innovation Forum EMEA in November 2024, he was listed on the agenda as CSO, speaking on emerging security topics and joining an expert panel alongside colleagues and partner-company representatives.
Talks and published work
Jacquet presented How to Effectively Communicate to the Board about Third Party Risk at an (ISC)2 event in October 2021, addressing risks posed by third-party vendors with unvetted access to company data. In January 2021 he discussed cybersecurity lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for Security Magazine in the piece Lessons learned: Six COVID-19 takeaways for CISOs from a CISO, speaking as CISO of Hitachi Vantara.
Education
Jacquet holds an engineering degree in computer science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliqués in Lyon, France, and a marketing certificate from the University of California, Berkeley.
