Kinetic IT has appointed experienced cyber security leader Pierre Tagle as Head of Cyber Security, strengthening its leadership as the company expands its capabilities across security advisory, resilience, and operations.
Pierre Tagle holds a PhD in Computer Science and brings more than 25 years of technology and cyber security experience across Australia and the Asia-Pacific, including senior roles with DXC Technology, Secureworks, and NTT.
He joins Kinetic IT to lead the continued development of its cyber security practice and help shape its next phase of growth.
The appointment comes as Kinetic IT builds greater depth across its Professional Services portfolio, including cyber security capabilities designed for the complex technology environments of government, critical infrastructure, and enterprise customers.
Kinetic IT’s cyber security practice brings together advisory, governance, and strategy services with operational security capabilities spanning identity and access management, threat and exposure management, cyber resilience, and its Australian-based sovereign Security Operations Centre, to support organisations across complex and regulated environments.
Shane Quinn, Managing Director, Professional Services at Kinetic IT, said the expansion of the company’s cyber capability reflected a deliberate focus on the areas where its experience operating complex environments could create greater value for customers.
“Cyber security is a natural extension of where Kinetic IT has operated for close to three decades – deep within the technology environments that underpin critical services and essential operations,” Shane said.
“We have an opportunity to bring that operational understanding together with specialist cyber expertise to help customers make better decisions about risk, resilience, and where to focus their security effort.
“Pierre has built and led cyber security capabilities across complex organisations and markets. He brings the experience, perspective, and leadership to help us build on what we already do well and shape a cyber practice with distinctly Australian relevance.”
Kinetic IT has supported Australian government and enterprise organisations for over 25 years, with approximately 1,450 employees nationally and operations across Perth, Darwin, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra.
As an Australian-owned company, Kinetic IT sees a growing role for sovereign technology capability as government and critical infrastructure organisations consider not only how their technology is secured, but where capability, expertise, and operational control reside.
Pierre Tagle, Head of Cyber Security at Kinetic IT, said the opportunity was about building on Kinetic IT’s established position within complex, regulated, and mission-critical customer environments.
“The strongest cyber security outcomes come from understanding the environment you’re protecting – the technology, the services it enables, the risks that matters, and what the organisation needs to keep running in the face of evolving cyber threats.
“Kinetic IT already has a strong foundation through its customer relationships, operational knowledge, and sovereign capability. The opportunity now is to build on it with cyber capability that helps organisations see their exposure more clearly, understand what needs to change next, prioritise intelligently, and strengthen resilience over time, and then help organisations to design, implement, validate, and operate that change.
“I’m excited to join an Australian company, to help build on its strong foundation, and make a meaningful contribution to the cyber security of Australia’s government and critical infrastructure sectors.”
Pierre Tagle will lead Kinetic IT’s cyber security practice nationally and work across its Professional Services and broader technology portfolio as the company continues to expand its security capabilities.
Find out more about Kinetic IT’s cyber security solutions for customers.
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