Steve Hodges named State Chief Information Security Officer at State of Georgia

The State of Georgia appointed Steve Hodges as its State Chief Information Security Officer. Hodges previously served as Disclosure Officer and Senior IT Security Manager for the Georgia Department of Revenue. He replaced Mike Davis, who had held the role in an interim capacity.

The announcement came from Shawnzia Thomas, the State CIO and GTA Executive Director, who said Hodges has joined GTA in the post, the GTA newsroom reports.

His time at the Georgia Department of Revenue lasted nearly 22 years and covered posts as Database Support Manager, IT Operations Manager, Network Support and Security Manager, and Server Platform Manager, the newsroom says. In his most recent post as disclosure officer at the revenue agency, Hodges managed IT service delivery, the State of Georgia page reports. Hodges also had responsibility for disaster recovery and business continuity planning, according to the newsroom. Before DOR, Hodges worked at the Georgia Department of Administrative Services, initially as a contractor and afterward as a state employee, the newsroom says. The State of Georgia page says his job at the Georgia Department of Administrative Services was enterprise network engineer. Across his career in the private and public sectors, Hodges has been involved in information security, the newsroom says. Early in his career, he belonged to a team that built one of the first disk encryption and access control systems sold commercially for IBM-compatible computers, according to the newsroom. According to the newsroom, Hodges holds several professional certifications, among them Novell CNE, Dante Networking and Lean Six Sigma.

According to the State of Georgia page, deputy CISO Davis had led cybersecurity operations at the Georgia Technology Authority since the previous October. At the time of the announcement, Davis was going back to the Deputy State CISO role within the Office of Information Security at GTA, according to the GTA newsroom.