The Czech Republic’s information technology sector blends deep engineering talent with fast-moving product companies, infrastructure providers, and cross-border delivery teams. That mix creates a distinct security challenge: CISOs must translate risk into shipping decisions, build security operations that scale with growth, and prove trust to customers who increasingly expect audit-ready assurance. The leaders below stand out for combining practical security execution—governance, operations, secure delivery, and compliance—with hands-on understanding of how IT organizations actually run.
Tomáš Sova — Cybersecurity Manager and Chief Information Security Officer, SafeDX s.r.o.
Tomáš Sova leads cybersecurity at SafeDX s.r.o., serving as Cybersecurity Manager and Chief Information Security Officer. His responsibilities span end-to-end security management and auditing, security budgeting, and hands-on support for project implementations. He also owns strategic, tactical, and operational security planning, runs a security operations center function, and reports directly to senior leadership. In parallel, he has held the same cybersecurity leadership role at FOXCONN EMEA, with a similarly broad mandate across governance, planning, operations, and executive reporting—experience that reflects a security leader comfortable operating at both the strategy layer and the operational layer. Earlier in his career, he served as an Information Security Lead and CISO within the automotive manufacturing environment at Toyota Peugeot Citroën Automobile Czech (TPCA), where he combined security leadership with infrastructure problem-solving and multi-layer network support, grounding his approach in real operational constraints.
Radim Ševčík — Chief Information Security Officer, Faster CZ spol. s r.o.
Radim Ševčík is the Chief Information Security Officer at Faster CZ spol. s r.o., describing his current role as overseeing the full scope of information security management—from IT governance, risk management, and compliance through to leading Blue and Red Teams and implementing strategic measures aligned to frameworks and regulatory expectations such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act, the NIS2 Directive, and ISO/IEC 27001. His profile highlights a career that spans public administration and private-sector leadership, with a focus on cybersecurity, digital transformation, and resilience initiatives. He has also chaired a steering committee for an EU-funded program aimed at improving resilience across Czech municipalities through collaboration among ministries, municipal bodies, the private sector, and academia. That combination—regulated-critical infrastructure mindset plus operational security leadership—fits the needs of IT organizations that must deliver continuously while staying audit-ready.
Radim Trávníček — Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, BeSecured, and Chief Information Security Officer, We Grow Together | Safetica
Radim Trávníček combines founder-level accountability with day-to-day security leadership as Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of BeSecured and as Chief Information Security Officer at We Grow Together | Safetica. His background emphasizes information security management systems, IT security, information security governance, and security operations, alongside physical security and business continuity responsibilities across earlier roles. He also positions himself as an information security auditor, consultant, risk analysis provider, trainer, and service management auditor—experience that tends to translate into structured, process-driven security programs that can scale across multiple teams and client expectations. In previous operational leadership roles, he coordinated IT and security delivery for large, service-oriented environments, including responsibilities tied to integrated management systems (quality, environment, occupational health and safety, and information security), reinforcing his strength in making security credible through operational discipline.
Tomáš Barták — Chief Information Security Officer, Spaceti
Tomáš Barták is the Chief Information Security Officer at Spaceti and also served as Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, giving him an unusually direct line between security and product and operational decision-making. His experience at Spaceti includes security management responsibilities before taking the Chief Information Security Officer role, suggesting continuity in building controls alongside the company’s growth. Earlier, he worked as a hardware and internet-of-things-focused developer and designer, including designing and assembling printed circuit boards and contributing to medical technology projects, plus an academic internship experience connected to internet-of-things cloud work. That blend—hardware, IoT, and security leadership—can be particularly valuable for IT companies that bridge digital platforms with physical devices, where security has to account for both software delivery and device reality.
Martin Krist — Chief Information Security Officer, IP Fabric
Martin Krist describes himself as a hands-on Chief Information Security Officer and security architect who has built and operated security, IT, and operations programs across fintech and healthcare organizations, from startups to established small and mid-sized companies. His profile emphasizes audit-aligned execution, including leading ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II initiatives, passing multiple audits, and delivering a SOC 2 report as a program lead. He highlights building teams from scratch, defining incident response processes, updating security policies, and delivering phishing and security awareness training across organizations. He also brings operational leadership experience beyond security, including owning IT and business operations functions and supporting acquisitions by aligning processes and baselines. For IT companies selling into enterprise buyers, this kind of “controls plus delivery” track record often matters as much as technical security depth.
Tomáš Honzák — Chief Information Security Officer, Ataccama
Tomáš Honzák is the Chief Information Security Officer at Ataccama, with an executive profile built around security leadership, risk management, and compliance in hybrid and cloud environments, with a focus on data platforms. He positions his work around defining enterprise security strategy, strengthening cyber resilience, and enabling secure cloud and artificial intelligence-driven innovation—while translating cyber risk into business decision-making. His specialties include security governance and compliance across standards and regulations such as ISO 27001, SOC reporting, the General Data Protection Regulation, HIPAA, the NIS2 Directive, the Digital Operational Resilience Act, and the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act, alongside secure engineering and cloud security practices like DevSecOps and shift-left security. With a technical foundation in software engineering and system architecture, he reflects the kind of security leadership IT firms need when selling “trust” as part of the product.
Jan Rulíšek — Chief Information Security Officer, Aricoma
Jan Rulíšek is the Chief Information Security Officer at Aricoma. His recent experience also includes senior compliance and information security leadership roles, including serving as Head of Information Security and as a Compliance Manager, reflecting a strong governance and assurance lens. Earlier, he held a sales director role in a technology organization over a long stretch, alongside prior project management experience—an uncommon mix that can be powerful in IT services and solution-provider environments, where security leaders often need to influence both delivery teams and commercial conversations. That blend suggests a leader who can connect customer expectations, compliance commitments, and internal execution into a coherent security program.
Building Trust in Czech Information Technology
In the Czech Republic’s information technology industry, the strongest security leaders are increasingly the ones who can operationalize trust: they build audit-ready programs without slowing delivery, run security operations that keep pace with rapid change, and embed security into engineering and product decision-making. The CISOs highlighted here reflect that shift—from governance and compliance mastery to hands-on operational leadership and secure-by-default delivery. Together, they show how Czech IT security leadership is maturing into a discipline that supports growth while meeting rising customer and regulatory expectations.
Czech technology companies don’t build in a vacuum—many of the toughest trust requirements come from banking buyers and regulated financial environments. If you want to see how security leadership looks inside Czech banks—where governance, operational resilience, and regulatory expectations converge—go next to CISOs to Watch in the Czech Republic’s Banking Industry.