Partha is the Director of Infrastructure Security Architecture at Bank of Montreal. Partha last week left Insurance company Guardian Life for a new exciting challenge at BMO in New York! Partha has worked at major organisations such as Bank of America and JP Morgan all within cyber security architecture, engineering and strategy. He has two Masters of Science within Technology and Cyber Security.

Key Minutes

03:10 - Getting into cybersecurity

04:20 - Why engineering & architecture

05:30 - Definition of Cybersecurity & AAA

08:02 - Goal of Architecture

10:42 - Changing cybersecurity architecture

15:50 - How do you work across a large organisation to impact risk?

19:00 - Banking to Insurance

21:35 - Linking strategy to architecture

23:30 - Prioritising what needs to be worked on

25:21 - Managing a large number of customers for architecture

27:20 - Implementing new technologies like Cloud

28:22 - What do you class as a strong security framework?

29:50 - Biggest challenges

31:45 - What is your recommendation in securing funding for new roles or technologies?

34:30 - What advice would you give to people looking to get into cybersecurity?

37:00 - 10 Quick Fire Questions

Key Points

- AAA within cybersecurity: Awareness, agility & advanced technology

- Be close to the business

- Always plan and prioritise

You can find Partha at:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parthasarathi-chakraborty-baa24810/

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