Joshua Reedy named Chief Information Security Officer at Kordia

Kordia Group appointed Joshua Reedy as Chief Information Security Officer. Reedy joins from Vodafone, where he was security services manager, and previously held a security leadership role at 2Degrees. He commenced the role in March 2023 based at Kordia's Auckland head office.

According to the Kordia release, Reedy will lead a team of security specialists, integrate best practice and take responsibility for Kordia Group's internal cyber security posture.

According to the release, Reedy holds a degree in Computer Science and Psychology from the University of Waikato and then spent nearly ten years at Vodafone NZ in security and IP engineering roles. The company says that in his security leadership position at 2Degrees he was heavily involved in risk management as well as security governance, design and implementation. In that position, the release says, he had responsibility for vendor management and managed a team of security engineers.

As Security Services Manager at Vodafone, Reedy led the internal offensive security teams and oversaw security operations, design and delivery, according to Kordia. In that Vodafone role he held responsibilities across incident response and the Security Operations Centre and managed more than twenty-five security professionals, the release says.

Olphert describes Kordia as a business whose focus is delivering mission-critical technology services and solutions.