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Marc Forrest

Chief Information Security Officer (ciso) at Teraco – A Digital Realty Company

Marc F. is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in information security, technology management, and entrepreneurship. As the Chief Information Security Officer at Teraco, a Digital Realty Company, Marc emphasizes collaboration and a culture of security awareness. Previously, Marc held roles including Business Applications Manager and Systems Manager at Teraco, focusing on cybersecurity protocols and IT systems. Additionally, Marc co-founded SA Crypto, South Africa's leading crypto community, and established Forrest Media and MarcForrest.com, which specialize in online trends and tech-related topics. With a background in telecommunications and database management, Marc has also contributed to various startups and community initiatives, all while pursuing a Master's degree in Cybersecurity at the University of London.

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Western Cape, South Africa

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Teraco – A Digital Realty Company

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As business transforms in the growing digital economy, Teraco’s carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centres provide a future-ready solution to all that today’s bandwidth-hungry applications require. Providing business’ with access to the digital edge, Teraco takes the enterprise to the on-ramp where clouds, networks, people and devices connect. Teraco forms a vital part of the African Internet’s backbone and is an essential part of the modern enterprise’s digital transformation strategy with its world-class data centre infrastructure and network dense ecosystems. Its ever-expanding ecosystems move Teraco beyond colocation and firmly establish it as an open marketplace for digital growth and innovation. Discovering new business partners, making strategic interconnection choices, on-ramping to your choice of cloud, and reaching new markets, Teraco provides a highly secure, flexible and resilient home for digital organisations. Teraco acknowledges legacy IT architecture can’t meet today’s digital demands. Tomorrow's success is built around the digital edge and rearchitecting the enterprise network and IT infrastructure. The data centre is purpose-built and operated to global best practice. With an absolute focus on data centre technology and infrastructure, Teraco offers all its clients secure, cost-effective, sustainable, scalable and resilient data centre services through its Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town facilities. Teraco is part-owned by Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) – offering clients a global data centre platform designed to enable digital businesses to scale within a highly connected data community across >285 data centres in 50 metros and 26 countries on six continents – and a consortium of private equity investors, including Berkshire Partners LLC and Permira.


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201-500

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