Tor Stale Hansen
Itera
CISO Council Speaker
CISO Council - Nordics-The Greatest Fears?Tor-Ståle Hansen is Itera Group's Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). ITERA 'security' embraces the disciplines of cybersecurity, information security, data protection and privacy, and is governed through all three perspectives; governance, risk management and compliance. As Group CISO, he reports to the board and is a member of Group management.
Tor-Ståle came from the positions Global CISO in Capgemini Global Business Line Insights & Data, and a commercial role as Head of Global Portfolio Data Protection & Privacy. He led a commercial portfolio in privacy and he has negotiated and provided services with many F500 companies. In addition, Tor-Ståle led Capgemini's internal work with Ethics & Trust in relation to AI, ML, and Cloud & Platforms and was also co-editor of ‘Capgemini Technology & Offerings Playbook’ together with Global CTO.
Tor-Ståle has experience with known security frameworks; NIST, CIS, SCF, ISO27k, various laws and regulations within security, intelligence activities, the financial industry's ICT regulations, the health service's norm for information security, cyber and information security in petroleum activities, aviation, etc. His dataprotection and privacy expertise cover both the European GDPR, the US CCPA and the Brazilian LGPD and other state regulation. Tor-Ståle has led Capgemini Research Institute's publication "Championing Data Protection and Privacy - a source of competition advantage in the digital age" and has developed new methods and technology within GRC, (recognized and award as new technology).
Tor-Ståle has studied ‘Cybersecurity Risk Management’ at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Harvard University, mathematics, chemistry, micro biology at the University of Tromsø, (and he is a former commercial pilot). Tor-Ståle is a guest lecturer for the Master students in Strategic Security magament at the University of Agder, and he is a cybersecurity newtwork leader at JUC, a nordic professional network for lawyers.