Join Gartner experts Chris Mixter and Bart Willemsen for a conversation on the steps that CISOs must take to evolve their role in privacy from merely supporting compliance to improving cyber risk management.

This episode of CISO Edge Podcast explores the role that privacy can play in accelerating cybersecurity’s priorities: 

• The five questions smart CISOs ask to focus their privacy efforts. (4:30)
• How to counteract “data hoarding” with a tool already at cybersecurity’s disposal. (8:30)
• This month’s obligatory GenAI-focused conversation. (12:10)
• How CISOs can use privacy legislation to their advantage. (17:10)
• Where to use privacy-enhancing technology to enhance cybersecurity. (25:20)

Bart Willemsen is a Gartner VP Analyst with focus on privacy and related challenges in an international context, as well as on ethics, digital society, and the intersection of these disciplines with modern technology including AI. He has a broad, in-depth history of experience, and was among the earlier Fellows of Information Privacy (FIP), and has held accreditations like CIPP/E, CIPM, CISA, CISM, bringing proven and multidisciplinary best practices to our worldwide clients. Before Gartner, Bart held various roles as (chief) privacy and security officer where he implemented, audited and oversaw privacy and security and compliance program strategies for holding companies and their subsidiaries.