Stanbic Bank Uganda has appointed Diana Agaba Tukundane as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a member of its Executive Committee. She has nearly two decades of experience in telecommunications, IT and information security.
The bank announced the appointment on its social channels. It said her work has strengthened its cyber resilience and protected customer trust. It added that the move reflects the growing weight of cybersecurity in banking.
The Role
Agaba Tukundane moves up from Head of Information Security, a post she held from September 2022. Her LinkedIn profile lists the CISO role from July 2026. A seat on the Executive Committee puts security leadership in the room where the bank’s top executives set strategy.
The bank said in its announcement that she “has played a pivotal role in strengthening our cyber resilience and safeguarding customer trust.”
A Career Built Across Two Banks
She began her career in February 2007 as a sales engineer at ZTE Corporation in Kampala. In August 2008 she joined Stanbic Bank Uganda as a network support engineer and stayed for almost seven years. She became Team Leader for Information Security in July 2015.
She left Stanbic in June 2018 for dfcu Bank. There she worked as an IT Security Specialist for Cyber Defence, then as Manager for IT Security, Standards and Architecture from September 2020. She returned to Stanbic in September 2022 as Head of Information Security. Her time at the bank across both stints comes to about 14 years.
Qualifications and Public Work
Agaba Tukundane holds a first class bachelor’s degree in telecommunications engineering from Kyambogo University. She also holds a master’s degree in management and information systems from the University of Manchester, awarded with merit, and an Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology, completed in January 2025. Her certifications include CISSP and CISM.
She speaks and mentors outside the bank. Africa Cyber Defense Forum listed her as a speaker for its 2023 event in Kigali, held from 14 to 16 November.
The East Africa Information Security Conference profiled her as a speaker who mentors women into science, technology, engineering and mathematics. She has also spoken publicly about how SIM swap fraud works and how a mobile network operator’s API adds a layer of protection for digital banking. In 2025 she attended the WiCyS conference in Dallas.
In Her Words
Agaba Tukundane thanked colleagues, mentors and family after the announcement. “Truly humbled by the overwhelming congratulatory messages, calls and well wishes,” she said. She added that “no career journey is built alone.”
She described the role as a continuation, not an endpoint. “This is not an arrival point, but another chapter in the journey,” she said, and called it one she steps into “with gratitude, humility, purpose and, as always, GRIT.”
On her profile she describes her approach to the job. She leads a team built around proactive defence and continuous improvement, and she says she uses her mentoring and speaking to push cyber resilience across the organisation and the wider financial sector.
Her appointment adds a security executive to the committee that runs the bank.
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