Luke Mason
Mason is a senior cybersecurity analyst for the city of Columbia, Missouri.
Local IT Leader of the Year
Luke Mason is a senior cybersecurity analyst for the City of Columbia, Missouri. In this role, Mason is tasked with fortifying the city’s cybersecurity posture, which includes protecting residents’ sensitive information and securing the systems that power the city’s critical infrastructure. In 2023, Mason oversaw the implementation of easy-to-use encryption and more stringent access rights policies to better protect resident data, as well as the migration of its DNS systems to the cloud, upgrading/patching of hundreds of servers, and the creation of a central security operations center to ensure constant uptime of the city’s critical infrastructure.
