Steve Hodges is the State Chief Information Security Officer for the State of Georgia, where he leads enterprise cybersecurity strategy, governance, operations, and modernization across a large and complex public-sector environment.

Steve has spent more than 30 years working across technology, operations, and cybersecurity. His career began close to the technology—with programming, databases, networks, infrastructure, and operations—and later evolved through enterprise architecture, business continuity, disaster recovery, governance, risk, and cybersecurity leadership. That experience has shaped how he thinks about security today.

Steve understands what happens when a security decision reaches the operational environment. His work increasingly focuses on the organizational challenges that determine whether an enterprise can act when time matters: trust, decision rights, relationships across organizational boundaries, and the ability to move from information to decision to action.

He speaks and writes about cybersecurity leadership, enterprise resilience, decision velocity, trust, governance, organizational transformation, and emerging technology. His recent work explores Continuous Incident Response and the need to build the trust, authority, and alignment required to act before an incident begins—not try to assemble them after an attacker is already moving.

Steve is a frequent speaker at cybersecurity, technology, and executive leadership events, including SecureWorld, Info-Tech LIVE, AWS Public Sector Innovation Day, StateScoop’s Cybersecurity Modernization Summit, the Georgia Digital Government Summit, and other industry and government forums.