Career profile
Matt Biber
Group Chief Information Security Officer, Qantas
- Role as of 7 April 2025, the date of the latest source
- 11 March 2024
As of April 2025, Matt Biber is the Group Chief Information Security Officer of Qantas, appointed in March 2024.
Career path
Biber joined Qantas in 2015, after earlier roles as director of security services for AccessHQ, principal security consultant at ANZ, and executive manager/general manager at ES Service Security.He has more than 30 years of experience in IT.Within Qantas, he went on to head the Qantas Group Cyber Security Centre.He began serving as acting Group Chief Information Security Officer at Qantas in September 2023.By early 2024 trade press had reported him as acting CISO, and in March 2024 Qantas confirmed him as its permanent Group CISO.Announcing the move, Biber wrote, "I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as group CISO at Qantas," (iTnews, S1.11).
Industry recognition
In 2025, Biber was named to the Distinguished Board of Judges for CISOs Connect's Top 100 CISOs (C100) Awards, a peer-reviewed recognition program for cybersecurity leaders in North America.He was listed on that judging board alongside CISOs from organizations including Denver Health, RWE, and Ziff Davis.Security Current's companion announcement of the 2025 award cycle likewise listed Biber among the board of judges for the C100 nominations process.
As Group CISO, Biber holds the senior security leadership position at Qantas, a role that followed the airline's broader renewal of its technology leadership team.His background combines direct airline security operations experience with earlier consulting and security-services roles outside Qantas, reflecting a path into the CISO seat built through internal progression from an acting appointment to the permanent position.
