Volker Rath

Field CISO APAC

Greater Sydney Area

About

I work with executives, security, IT risk and compliance teams to help my customers build, deploy and run sensitive and regulated workloads in the cloud at scale. I provide executive trainings, cloud security strategies and practical/tactical advise that helps organisations to identify and prepare for the change required for a successful cloud adoption journey. We help customers to utilize automation and new technologies such as GenAI/ML to go fast and secure in the cloud while meeting internal, legislative and regulatory requirements.

Experience

  • Field CISO at Cloudflare
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) (5 yrs 5 mos)
    • Executive Security Advisor
      Jan 2024 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Helping organisations to navigate their security and compliance journey in the cloud

    • Security, Risk and Compliance Principal APJC
      Aug 2021 - Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

    • Security, Risk and Compliance Principal FSI ANZ
      Sep 2019 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs

  • Head of Security Consulting Australasia at BT
    Jul 2017 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Senior Manager Cyber at PwC Australia
    Nov 2014 - Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • Macquarie Telecom (Greater Sydney Area)
    • Hosting Category Manager
      Jul 2014 - Nov 2014 · 5 mos

      - Business Continuity (Disaster Recovery and Disaster Avoidance) - Hybrid Computing - Security

    • Subject Matter Expert Cloud Computing and Hosting
      Oct 2012 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

      The role of the Hosting SME at Macquarie Telecom is to support and enable sales in all hosting and cloud computing matters in order to grow the business and improve customer experience. In this primarily customer facing role I also analyze the market and customer needs, provide feedback to the product team and influence the hosting and cloud strategy of Australia's leading hosting company for business critical infrastructures.