Gerald is the Chief Information Security Officer/Vice President for Sprinklr’s products andcorporate assets.In his prior role as Chief Information Security Officer/Vice President for LogMeIn, he was responsible for the security, compliance, and technical privacy of LogMeIn’s products and corporate assets. Before, Gerald was Chief Security Officer for Demandware, a Salesforce Company, responsible for security and acting Chief Privacy Officer and Data Protection Officer for Demandware’s German subsidiary.Previously, he worked for Sun Microsystems, Inc. in various roles, including the BusinessAlliances Group of Sun’s Chief Technologist’s Office. He is a member of the Infragard Member Alliance Boston Chapter Board of Directors and the IT Sector Chief, as well as a National Subject Matter Expert for Infragard, and has served on the board of other national membership organizations.Gerald holds a Master of Science degree in theoretical physics.

Episode transcription:

[00:00:00] Gerald Beuchelt: [00:00:00] So the cyber security industry has been in some ways a wonderful opportunity to really start to rethink some of the controls, some of the technologies that are being used. I think for us as implementing companies, there's been definitely a bunch of challenges the first couple of weeks of the lockdowns, really, where it's like, how can I actually make sure that my employees can still work? Like at all? Right. It's like, I mean, there were simple civil artists, seemingly simple challenges. Like, does everybody have a laptop? It's like, no, like some people didn't say, how do you get laptops out there? It's like in a time when there was really a shortage of laptops, because everybody needed one, it's like going over monitors, webcams, right? It's like the whole nine yards. There's a lot of those kinds of trivial things.

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[00:01:04] [00:01:00] Fred Obiero: [00:01:04] Welcome to the Ivy Podcast, Gerald. I'm so happy to have you.

[00:01:08] Gerald Beuchelt: [00:01:08] Thank you so much for having me. It's like, this is funny. It's like, I'm really doing this.

[00:01:14] Fred Obiero: [00:01:14] All right. For all listeners that don't know you. Why don't you give us a brief introduction about yourself and your role and how you ended up in information security?

[00:01:24] Gerald Beuchelt: [00:01:24] It's just like my name's Jared Michelle's, I’m the chief information security officer, of course, Bigler, we're a software as a service company, focusing on marketing tech, automation. And it's like, I just recently took up this position, so don't be too hard on me in terms of like, what's going on. It's like, I'm still learning. We're just part of the experience. I got into nineties.

[00:01:49] Fred Obiero: [00:01:49] What's that? I'll take it easy on you.

[00:01:50] Gerald Beuchelt: [00:01:50] Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Perfect. Now it's definitely been a long journey for me in many ways since like, it's been super interesting to see how information security, how the information industry in general has been changing over the last decades. Literally, it started out in a pre-sales kind of situation a long time ago which was something that I would actually encourage him. Anyone, but it's like, especially working in security too, to really do at some point in the careers, mainly because it's like, it gives you an appreciation for customers in terms of how to deal with stakeholders, et cetera. So I was like that. I think that was a really important part of the step, but really getting into information security. I got over time first focusing on interoperability between different systems. And if I look at interoperability then security often plays a pretty crucial role in terms of moving those things forward. I then got ultimat