Investment management colossus State Street ($5 trillion in assets under management) is seeking a CISO to boost cybersecurity for UK&I clients.
Describing it as “executive leadership level for the UK/Ireland region,” State Street said that the CISO would report to its SVP, Global Cyber.
(The Stack understands this to be Michelle Lindersmith.)
State Street wants someone with at least 15 years in cybersecurity.
“Contribution to… the Business’ exercise of connecting security into their strategic and tactical plans will be a critical success criteria,” the firm said.
Among the UK CISO’s responsibilities will be “manage application risk and remediation prioritization based on a portfolio of regional assets.”
The successful candidate will work out of its London offices.
A job description is here. It did not advertise a salary range.
State Street cybersecurity team grows
State Street appears to be beefing up its security team. It’s also currently recruiting a Managing Director, Cryptography ($170,000-$282,500 ) with a focus on key and certificate management, and a Global Head of Third-Party Risk Management ($170,000-$282,500), both based in Quincy, Massachusetts.
State Street’s Global Chief Cybersecurity Architect Joel Van Dyk recently reflected in a personal blog (as both a cyber professional and a pilot) on the impact of an attack on a supplier to Heathrow and other airports.
He called on firms to “audit every critical vendor module to find weak links before attackers do; build crypto agility…by using post-quantum and hybrid algorithms so your defenses can evolve; segment and isolate networks: that limits the blast radius if one module is breached; run cyber-failure drills… repeatedly, under stress, with contingencies.”
Technology, more broadly, is led at the firm by newly appointed (July 2025) CIO Andrew Zitney, who was previously chief technology officer (CTO) for Global Technology Services.
State Street's spending on "information systems and communications" increased 15% in its last reported quarter to $505 million; it earned $254 million in the same quarter from software & processing fees..
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