WTW hires cyber risk specialist

Rob Wiggan
ROB WIGGAN
Willis Towers Watson - Cyber Security Consultant
APPOINTMENT
Willis Towers Watson
WILLIS TOWERS WATSON
Date: 23 March 2022
Position: Cyber Security Consultant
By Elizabeth Fry

Willis Towers Watson has added cyber specialist Rob Wiggan to its Australasian financial and executive risk team.

As a cyber security consultant, Wiggan will sit in a team that runs risk management across several areas, including cyber, directors' and officers' insurance, professional indemnity, management liability, and transactional risk.

In the new role, he will work across all types of Australasian businesses, including ASX-listed companies, major multinationals, institutional investors, and privately-held firms.

Wiggan joins from the Queensland University of Technology, where he was the associate director of information security, where he ran security operations across all the university's businesses.

Before that, he built information security functions for the Bank of Queensland and Queensland Urban Utilities.

"Rob has a deep understanding of how information security operations are relied on to support strategic business objectives," said WTW Australasian cyber and technology risk head Ben Di Marco.

"He has directly established and managed internal cyber security functions, performed risk exposure assessments and action plans, undertaken cyber maturity uplift projects, and delivered support to help senior executives navigate cyber challenges created by the pandemic and a fast-changing regulatory environment.

"Rob adds a critical new element to WTW's capabilities, bringing unique insight into the cyber and technology risk challenges our clients face, through experience drawn from the real world. He has direct knowledge of the pressures on organisations to uplift their cyber security risk management and systems, using limited resources and an understanding of the cyber security services that can provide real value to clients."

Di Marco noted that the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner advised it received 464 data breach notifications from July to December 2021, an increase of 6 percent on the previous period.

In addition, the Australian Cyber Security Centre said that ransomware attacks continue to target organisations of all sizes, with a marked increase seen in "big game" cyber-attacks.