The CIO Evolution

Host Phil Armstrong welcomes Kevin Dawson, President and CEO of ISA Cybersecurity, and Sean Cordero, CISO - Americas at Zscaler to discuss how the cat-and-mouse game of cybersecurity can lead to CIOs rushing from point to point solutions trying to lock down their organizations. They cover the fallibility of third-party risk assessments, an unwillingness of cyber-insurers to cover ransomware attacks,  market confusion surrounding the "acts of war" clauses and designation, talent acquisition, and more. 

Once you have a zero trust architecture in place, it can enable cyber security capabilities that will be commonplace in the future. In this episode, host Phil Armstrong welcomes guests Maneesh Sahu, director, OT network and security transformation, Zscaler, and Bil Harmer, operating partner, Craft Ventures, to explore the latest technologies that can help IT leaders support their digital aspirations. Learn about securing the supply chain by minimizing supplier risk and integrating third-party identities, advances and challenges in device identity, and IOT, and how to embrace DevOpsSec and the no-code and low-code development trend while staying on top of their challenges. 

On January 26th the Office of Management and Budget, Executive Office of the President, issued Memorandum M-22-09. The memorandum outlines an approach for delivering a zero trust architecture and capability for FYE 2024 with specific milestones defined for the next 30 and 60 days. In this episode, host Phil Armstrong, President & CEO of Macanthium Ventures Inc. and CXO REvolutionary welcomes the former CIO of the State of Wisconsin, David Cagigal, and Zscaler Public Sector Chief Technologist Hansang Bae to analyze the memo, including the short-term deliverables and what it will really take to succeed with a uniform cybersecurity strategy for federal agencies.  

In this tell-all episode, host Rohit Adlaka and guests Karl Hoods, chief digital and information officer at BEIS, and Christoph Heidler, VP of global transformation strategy & CIO-EMEA at Zscaler, discuss the changes afoot for CIOs to deliver growth, digitalization, and efficiency while maintaining resilience and agility. With customer and employee expectations only increasing, cyber threats multiplying, and competition growing fiercer, how do technology leaders cope with a milieu of seemingly impossible digital complexity?  Listen in for answers with insights into:

• Managing accelerated change across the IT landscape
• Driving a fantastic user experience
• Integrating security transformation 
• Aligning closer to corporate boards
• Attracting talent and promoting the CIO function 

Host Rohit Adlakha and guest Claudia May Del Pozo explore advancements in AI through the lens of Latin America, including regional challenges, public-private cooperation, and how women leaders and experts in humanities can partner with technologists to create more equitable outcomes. 
 
C Minds is a women-led action tank that works in the intersection of new technologies, society, and the environment, with a strong focus in Latin America. It achieves this by designing digital policies and ethical frameworks and deploying initiatives that harness artificial intelligence (“AI”) to advance sustainable development goals. 

Guest host, Rohit Adlakha, a CXO Revolutionary and former Chief Digital & Information Officer and Global Head, Wipro HOLMES™ welcomes Zscaler pros Howie Xu, VP of ML/AI, and Ken Urquhart, Global Vice-President, 5G to explore AI, trust, and cybersecurity and the top concerns within, such as ethics, bias, and fairness. AI is poised to redefine the basis of knowledge, revealing insights and truths that go beyond the scope of human intelligence. Are we ready?  

Organizations are in a tech arms race to meet shifting customer demands, deliver on business imperatives, and avoid disruption. C-level leaders and board of directors across every industry and subsector are turning to the cloud and the secure internet to deliver on new and compelling value propositions for customers. 

In episode 5, Zscaler board member Andy Brown shares his perspectives on how enterprise leaders must communicate technology transformation to the board in the language of the business. 

The conversation is a tour de force well-suited as the season finale. Listen now for significant insights and observations about the state of business technology, including: 

• The hybridization of every sub-vertical in the world is––companies that had no real reason to be in the digital computing space before do now
• The limitations of a "lift and shift" strategy to the cloud 
• How companies can become more customer-centric vs. product-centric and the role of digitalization in that evolution 
• Why CEOs have become the leaders of the move to the digital
• CIOs can help the executive committee and the board think much more broadly about what the role of the company is in customer's lives
• Risk doesn't just apply to cyber threats, but also to the disruption of business models

Episode 4 contains an incredible set of insights, including:  

• The required security capabilities for modern digital enterprises and how there is no such thing as "nice-to-haves" 
• What has worked and not worked when it came to operationalizing the transformation journey
• How designing experiences that build brand credibility relies on secure transactions that are frictionless
• How zero trust can be applied to other parts of enterprise infrastructures and use cases beyond work-from-anywhere
• The best cyber leaders might be proven non-cybersecurity executives who knows the business better than anyone in security, but can still get the security job done 

The hybrid work environment is the new work environment forcing us to, among many things, rethink network infrastructure and security. In this episode of The CIO Evolution, host and CXO REvolutionary Les Ottolenghi, and Kevin Schwarz, Director of Transformation at Zscaler, challenge the very meaning of network security in a cloud-based world and explore how the industry is looking to zero trust as the solution for the new paradigm since old answers for new problems won't make the cut as we plunge into future. 

Listen to the conversation to learn about:

• Why the idea of the network as we traditionally know it has changed, rendering "network security" obsolete
• The traffic visibility challenge with a close look at how to handle Microsoft 365 
• Why user-to-app connections are the simplest, fastest, and most secure and deliver on new user expectations 
• The skills CXOs need in the new normal, post-covid-19 world 
• A "security and trust as a service" mindset