Stephen is a co-founder of Ground Labs, leading a global team empowering its customers to discover, identify and secure sensitive data across their organizations.
As the Chief Evangelist, he leads its worldwide product development, sales and marketing and business operations and was instrumental in extending Ground Labs’ presence with enterprise customers.
Stephen has deep security domain expertise with a focus on electronic payments and data security compliance. He is a frequent speaker at industry events on topics related to data security, risk mitigation and cybersecurity trends and futures.
He started Ground Labs after holding leadership positions at Paycorp Holdings, a provider of integrated electronic payments solutions; he also held engineering roles with Webpay, a payment services provider later acquired by Fidelity, and Webtel, an early Australian ISP.
Data protection is increasingly recognised as fundamental to trade, security, and privacy in our modern information economy. Data protection legislation has been passed in almost 80% of countries, all mandating the same universal principles of data protection – of justifiable or legitimate need, of integrity and of security.
Fundamental to meeting any data protection legislation is to know your data: What you have, why you have it, how you got it, what you do with it, and where you keep it. Building data awareness through validated data discovery provides the foundation for an effective data security strategy capable of navigating this global, data-driven landscape.