Sascha Hess

Sascha Hess

Chief Information Security Officer
PayPal Australia

Sascha Hess is CISO at PayPal Australia. He has spent 25 years in cyber security, with 15 of those almost entirely inside payment stacks: building them, securing them, and defending them.

He was previously Chief Security and Operations Officer at Tyro Payments and earlier consulted at Ernst & Young and IIS Partners.

On the side, he advises startups and vibes code. He has also long held that a swim solves most things a whiteboard can't.

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