John-Paul Sikking

John-Paul Sikking is Head of Cyber Protection at the Bank of New Zealand, leading enterprise-wide initiatives in vulnerability management, threat detection, and cybersecurity resilience. With extensive experience across banking, consulting, and technology sectors, he has held senior roles including Acting CISO at Westpac, Head of Application Security at Datacom, and Associate Director of Cyber Security at Deloitte. A problem solver with deep expertise in cloud, application, and network security, John-Paul is passionate about building secure, adaptive systems through automation, DevSecOps, and identity management