Christine Halvorsen

Christine Halvorsen is Okta’s first-ever Public Sector Chief Technology Officer (CTO), helping public sector customers achieve their mission with modern Identity solutions that simplify their processes and secure their IT infrastructure. Christine applies her deep industry insight to ensure that Okta’s industry-leading innovations meet security and compliance requirements while offering an optimal user experience for the company’s more than 24 million federal, state, local, education and healthcare users.

Christine has a 20+-year background with the FBI, where she led teams focused on digital infrastructure modernization, counterterrorism, and law enforcement, serving as the Assistant Director, and Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer of the Counterterrorism and Criminal Justice Information Services Divisions. Her private sector
experience spans public sector technology and AI-focused leadership positions at AWS and most recently, the role of Managing Director at Protiviti. A member of the Forbes Technology Council and the Critical Infrastructure and Technology Councils of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), Christine sits on the board of FITGov. She is a frequent industry speaker on trust and security, cyber resilience, cyber policy, AI risk and governance, and cloud technology.

Christine holds an MBA from Georgetown University, a master’s degree in Computer Information Security from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.