Career profile
Kim Larsen
Group Chief Information Security Officer, Keepit
- Current role, per sources checked 15 October 2026
- 16 April 2024
Kim Larsen is Group Chief Information Security Officer at Keepit, having been appointed the company's Chief Information Security Officer in April 2024.
Career path
Larsen began his career in the Danish National Police.
He then spent nine years with the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), where he served as a delegate for the Danish government on both NATO's and the EU's security committees.
He subsequently moved into the private sector as a strategic advisor on government, public and financial sector matters, helping develop security organizations and partnerships at companies including Verizon, Huawei and Systematic.
He served on the information security board of the Danish Industry Confederation (DI) and the Danish Council for Digital Security for a decade.
Keepit, a Copenhagen-headquartered company selling SaaS data backup and recovery products, announced Larsen's appointment as Chief Information Security Officer on April 16, 2024.
He now holds the title Group Chief Information Security Officer at Keepit.
Remit and expertise
At Keepit, Larsen's areas of expertise include business-driven security, aligning corporate, digital and security strategies, risk management and threat mitigation, developing and implementing security strategies, leading through communication, and coaching.
He is described as an experienced keynote speaker, negotiator and board advisor on cyber and general security topics.
On joining Keepit, he said: "It's a great opportunity to work with organizations on how to retain access to their data in the face of any malign or arbitrary threats to their infrastructure,"
Talks and published work
Larsen discussed balancing disaster recovery, backup systems and security alongside Dale Zabriskie, field CISO at Cohesity, on InformationWeek's That DOS Won't Hunt podcast. He has written for the Keepit blog, including The illusion of control: What 300 IT leaders told us about adopting AI, published in June 2026, which examined a survey of more than 300 senior IT decision-makers on agentic AI adoption. In October 2026 he wrote A sovereign cloud can still have a bad day: What CADA leaves to your recovery plan, analyzing the EU's proposed Cloud and AI Development Act and its implications for data recovery.
