Jayson Walmsley

Jayson Walmsley

Co-Founder & Consulting Partner

Jayson is a Consulting Partner at Digital Resilience with more than 25 years of experience in banking and finance, payment services, telecommunications, water utilities, and critical infrastructure.

His previous senior roles include Head of Information Security (CISO) and Head of IT Risk and Governance (Bendigo and Adelaide Bank), and Manager of Networks and Telecommunications and Manager of Payment Systems (Adelaide Bank).

As a consultant, Jayson’s work with major critical infrastructure, finance and not-for-profit clients includes advising them on business continuity and disaster recovery strategy, design, implementation, and testing. He also led a registered training organisation through the Australian Government’s Right Fit for Risk Cyber Security accreditation.

Jayson’s specialises in cyber security strategy, security capability maturity assessments, enterprise security architecture, risk management, controls testing (design and operating effectiveness), service continuity and third-party risk and control frameworks and assessments. His extensive experience in the banking sector firmly underpins his approach to applying APRA’s prudential standards and guidelines to strengthen client operations against threats and vulnerabilities.

Jayson holds tertiary qualifications in Economics and IT. He is also certified in IT Service Management (ITIL), Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), Information Security Architecture (SCF), Information Security Manager (CISM), and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He is an active member of the Australian Information Security Association and ISACA Adelaide Chapter, and previously served as a board member.