Steve Talbot-Walsh

Steve Talbot-Walsh Originally employed at the IBM software labs in the UK, Steve has over 35 years IBM Mainframe Systems Engineering and Consultancy experience. Specializing initially as an MVS, CICS and RACF systems programmer, Steve moved into a technical pre-sales and large systems consulting role. In 1993, Steve formed what was to become a worldwide team specializing in mainframe security integration and migration (CA-ACF2 and CA-Top Secret to RACF) and worked on projects throughout the UK, Europe, USA and Australia, in large-scale multinational organizations, across a wide variety of industry sectors.
In July 2011, Steve joined IBM A/NZ in Melbourne as a Senior System z Client Architect (zCA) and became the IBM z Security Technical Pre-Sales Lead for Asia Pacific, China, Middle East and Africa. Steve is a member of the world-wide IBM zChampion’s team and a member of the IBM zCA Global Advisory Board.
In August 2017, Steve became the world-wide CTO for IBM z Security.