Career profile
Mike Hanley
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, General Motors
- Role as of 9 December 2024, the date of the latest source
- December 2024
As of December 2024, Mike Hanley is the Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer of General Motors, a role he began that month after the automaker hired him as its CISO. At General Motors, Hanley holds the title of vice president and chief information security officer.
Career path
Hanley's early security career included several years at CERT/CC, where he worked as a Senior Member of the Technical Staff and security researcher on applied research and development programs for the United States Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. He later became Vice President of Security at Duo Security, building and leading the company's security research, development, and operations functions. Cisco acquired Duo Security for $2.35 billion in 2018, and Hanley led the transformation of Cisco's cloud security framework before serving as the company's Chief Information Security Officer. He served as Cisco's CISO for less than a year before moving on. In February 2021, GitHub announced it had hired Hanley as Chief Security Officer. He went on to hold the combined title of Chief Security Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering at GitHub. General Motors hired Hanley, previously GitHub's chief technology officer, as its new Chief Information Security Officer, with the move reported during the week of December 9, 2024. Prior to GitHub, Hanley had also held leadership positions at Cisco and Duo Security.
Security remit and public statements
At GitHub, Hanley described his job as covering internal IT and corporate security, product security and platform health, governance, risk and compliance, the GitHub Security Lab, and partnering with teams to build security products. He doubled the size of GitHub's security team within his first eight months in the role and planned to add several dozen more employ
