Kurtis Toy

Kurtis Toy is a Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) and CEO of Onca Technologies Ltd who has also been appointed as the CEO of the CCoE. After gaining an MSc in Biology, Kurtis worked for an oil servicing company where he ended up working in IT. He became responsible for the IT and information security in the company, leading to him becoming Global IT Coordinator. He then gained an additional MSc in Information Technology, next becoming Global IT Team Leader, which included responsibility for cyber security, before moving to Onca Technologies full time, which he established in 2016.

Further qualifications Kurtis has since gained include becoming a GDPR Foundation and Practitioner (Data Protection Officer), ISO 9001 Internal Auditor training and ISO 27001 Lead Implementor. He is also a CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional). He describes the CCoE as giving local authorities access to an umbrella of protection akin to a “validated Google of cyber security knowledge”.