David Bradbury

David Bradbury
Chief Security Officer

David Bradbury is Chief Security Officer at Okta. As CSO, he leads overall security execution for the organization and his team is responsible for navigating the evolving threat landscape to best protect employees and customers. In addition, he is instrumental in helping Okta’s customers continue to adopt and accelerate Zero Trust security strategies. 

Prior to joining Okta, Bradbury was Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer at Symantec where he led and had global oversight of all cyber security and physical security programs. 

Bradbury has built an international reputation for leading and delivering cybersecurity at scale. He has worked across his native Australia, as well as in the United Kingdom and the United States, leading highly-regarded security teams at some of the world’s largest banks, including ABN AMRO, Barclays, Morgan Stanley and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Sydney.

David Bradbury

Okta October 2023 Security Incident Investigation Closure

Related Posts: Recommended Actions - Nov 29, 2023 / Root Cause Analysis [RCA] - Nov 3, 2023 / Security Incident - Oct 20, 2023 Stroz Friedberg, a leading cybersecurity forensics firm engaged by Okta, has concluded its independent investigation of the October 2023 security incident. The conclusions of Okta’s investigation have not changed, and Stroz Friedberg has confirmed there is no evidence of further malicious activity beyond what was previously determined by Okta. The October 2023 security...

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October Customer Support Security Incident - Update and Recommended Actions

Related Posts: Root Cause Analysis [RCA] - Nov 3, 2023 / Security Incident - Oct 20, 2023 In the wake of the security incident Okta disclosed in October 2023 affecting our customer support management system (also known as the Okta Help Center), Okta Security has continued to review our initial analysis shared on November 3, re-examining the actions that the threat actor performed. This included manually recreating reports the threat actor ran in the system and the files the threat actor...

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Unauthorized Access to Okta's Support Case Management System: Root Cause and Remediation

Executive Summary We offer our apologies to those affected customers, and more broadly to all our customers that trust Okta as their identity provider. We are deeply committed to providing up-to-date information to all our customers. On Thursday, October 19, Okta advised customers of a security incident. Having finalized our investigation, we can confirm that from September 28, 2023 to October 17, 2023, a threat actor gained unauthorized access to files inside Okta’s customer support system...