Information Security

About the Chief Information Security Officer

Mike Hamilton, CISO

Michael Hamilton is the City's Chief Information Security Officer. He is responsible for governance and leadership in support of effective and consistently-applied technology security standards and methods across 20+ departments.

Mr. Hamilton has more than 20 years as an information security professional, as a practitioner, entrepreneur, consultant, and in management. Formerly a NASA ocean scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, his BS and MS degrees in Geochemistry and Oceanography are from the University of Southern California.

Telephone: 206-684-7971
Fax: 206-684-0911 
E-mail:
Michael.Hamilton@seattle.gov
Location: Seattle Municipal Tower
Address: 700 5th Avenue
Suite 2700
Seattle, WA 98104

David Matthews, Deputy CISO
David Matthews, the Deputy CISO supports citywide Information Security. His reponsibilities include policy creation, maintenance and enforcement; project management; awareness programs; business continuity/disaster recovery and incident response.

Telephone: 206-233-2764
Fax: 206-684-0911
E-mail:
David.Matthews@seattle.gov
Location: Seattle Municipal Tower
Address: 700 5th Avenue
Suite 2700
Seattle, WA 98104

The position of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) was created to oversee the citywide efforts to properly protect the City's information technology systems and the data associated with it. The timely and cost effective delivery of citizen services and government operations depends on these citywide efforts being successful.