The CISO's Gambit

The CISO's Gambit

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The CISO's Gambit episodes

  • No pressure: Taking mission responsibility for the $10 billion James Webb Telescope
    Not everyone arrives at work in the morning to advance humans’ understanding of our place in the universe. But David Liska does. As the Associate Director of Engineering & Technology at the Space Telescope Science Institute, he’s been integral in launching and operating one of humanity’s most ambitious astronomical projects to date: the James Webb Telescope. In this episode, learn what it takes to manage such a massively complex undertaking, Liska’s lessons for working on public sector projects, and what about the universe still fills him with wonder.
    50 min
  • It takes a village: Nurturing the next generation of cybersecurity talent
    Does academia take the right approach to producing tomorrow's cybersecurity leaders? What role should private sector leaders play? JP Saini, Chief Digital & Technology Officer at Sunbelt Rentals joins host Sean Cordero to discuss how mentorship directly contributes to better business outcomes, the importance of soft skills, and the fundamentals necessary to find success in a cybersecurity career.
    27 min
  • The power of prediction: Harnessing AI and ML for cybersecurity
    Get up to speed on the art and science of training models, big data sets, and limitations and possibilities for AI in cybersecurity and beyond. Zscaler Vice President of AI and Machine Learning Howie Xu has been a pioneer in applying AI and ML to cybersecurity since the late 1990s. In this episode, he is joined by VP and CISO AMS - Brad Moldenhauer, and host Sean Cordero to discuss the state of applied ML and AI and the future.
    40 min
  • CSA and the pursuit of a zero trust ‘gold’ standard
    After the RSA showroom floor proved zero trust's popularity as a buzzword, how will its tenants be solidified and standardized to separate true adherents from charlatans? To find out, host Sean Cordero welcomes John Yeoh, global vice president of research at the Cloud Security Alliance, and Lauren Wise, senior director, global executive advisory at Zscaler to discuss the recently announced Zero Trust Advancement Center and its mission to become the vendor-agnostic industry "North Star" for the strategies and solutions that make up zero trust cybersecurity.
    31 min
  • Understanding phishing today: Bad actors 'dialed in' on sophisticated attacks
    Zscaler VP & CISO Brad Moldenhauer joins host Sean Cordero for a deep dive into new phishing data and tactical analysis provided by the Zscaler ThreatLabz team. They cover why political turmoil tends to correlate with rising phishing rates, phishing attack vectors like browser-in-the-browser (BitB) that are gaining steam among adversaries, supply chain risk, and why spear phishing is still a whale of a problem. Listen now to learn more about the latest developments in phishing tactics.
    23 min
  • Heng Mok, Zscaler CISO - APJ, unplugged: a deep examination of today's toughest security job

    There is no one path to the top security role, but once there, the challenges for newbie CIOS are familiar. What are the keys to success? What kind of background and skill set is best? How do you pick up an inherited tech stack and budget and run with it? What is the right organizational structure given how infrastructure and risk management have evolved? To answer these top questions and more, host Sean Cordero, Zscaler CISO - Americas goes deep with Heng Mok, Zscaler CISO - APJ, a relative newcomer to the team with a prolific career journey.

    39 min
  • The role of cybersecurity in M&A deal value and synergy targets

    The global M&A market is on a record-setting pace with trillions of dollars in transactions every year. With that comes a lot of success stories and unfortunate failures. In this episode, CISO-Americas and host Sean Cordero and Zscaler guests Sami Ramachandran, Managing Director, M&A, Divestiture, Private Equity, and Pam Kubiatowski, Field CTO, detail how the strategic use of cybersecurity and networking can be the linchpin for successful and rapid IT integration and separation for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures.

    41 min
  • Macro threat trends facing CISOs and the response for the year ahead

    Sean welcomes Bryan Green, former Business Information Security Officer (BISO) at Salesforce, and Brad Moldenhauer, former CISO at Steptoe & Johnson, as guests in this stage-setting discussion into trends and concerns that will occupy the minds and focus of cybersecurity leaders the world over. Listen for perspectives and insights you can use in your planning and strategies for ransomware, cryptocurrencies, cyber-insurance, and critical infrastructure. 

    30 min
  • Stopping Log4j with guest Deepen Desai, Zscaler CISO

    CISO - Americas, Sean Cordero, a newcomer to the Zscaler team, picks up the reins as host and interviews Deepen Desai, the Global CISO and Head of Security Research at the company about the most pressing cybersecurity topic this month, Log4j. Listen in for insights into how attackers can and have been exploiting the massive vulnerability, prevention measures, and if we’re headed toward a world where every day seems like Patch Tuesday.

    25 min
  • Let’s get Active about Defense

    The Zscaler CISO team is joined by their esteemed colleague, Sahir Hidayatullah, to investigate the capability known in the cybersecurity industry as Active Defense. 


    The Zscaler CISO team has been actively engaged with customers on various threat prevention and detection strategies for SecOps maturity. The problem in this area today is apparent: alert fatigue, false positives, data paralysis, complexity, ineffectiveness. This suggests transformational change is required to protect against the threatscape that continues to expand the sophistication of its arsenal. Enter Active Defense (aka Adversary Engagement) and its human threat focus, to proactively combat the threat through engagement, disruption, and asymmetry.  The Zscaler CISO team is joined by one of the pioneers in the Active Defense space, Sahir Hidayatullah, to investigate this capability and how he sees this capability working in a zero-trust environment. Discussion topics include:

    • The current shortcomings or gaps with conventional threat detection capabilities and techniques
    • Active Defense and MITRE Engage
    • Active Defense disrupting the cyber kill chain
    • Active Defense case studies
    • What if Active Defense was in place at Colonial Pipeline? 

    43 min

About The CISO's Gambit

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The CISO's Gambit podcast is a pragmatic cyber risk dialogue between cyber security leaders from leading organizations, like Zscaler. Topics span technical and non-technical aspects of cyber risk, cybersecurity, privacy, transformational change management, and the evolving role of the CISO as a thought leader and change agent. The podcast covers current risks, what's on horizon, and how CISOs can help deliver business value that lowers risks, flattens the total cost of controls, and reduces security friction on user experience and business velocity.