CISO Spotlight – Life After Being An End-user Enterprise CISO: Benjamin Corll, Zscaler CISO
Posted on: 09 Apr 2024
Benjamin Corll’s transition to vendor CISO from enterprise CISO wasn’t anything he’d been aiming for. But when a great opportunity came his way, he took the leap. “Opportunities are abundant…
CISO Spotlight: Rafi Khan, New Jersey Transit CISO
Posted on: 09 Apr 2024
Rafi Khan sees his career as a series of crossroads for taking his professional path to new levels. Three factors help him to balance these decision points, said Khan, the…
CISO Spotlight – Life After Being An End-user Enterprise CISO: David Hahn, Ballistic Ventures, CISO in Residence
Posted on: 03 Apr 2024
David Hahn describes himself as a security evangelist. “I think security should be very democratized,” said Hahn, the inaugural CISO in residence at Ballistic Ventures. “Part of a CISO’s job…
CISO Spotlight: Cassio Goldschmidt, ServiceTitan CISO
Posted on: 03 Apr 2024
For Cassio Goldschmidt, cybersecurity is an arms race, trying to stay one step ahead of the enemy. That’s why building alliances is so important. “I think the only way to…
CISO Spotlight: Montae Brockett, District of Columbia’s Health Care Finance CISO
Posted on: 27 Mar 2024
Many CISOs eagerly turn to hobbies to ease the pressures that come with the job. Not Montae Brockett. “For me, unwinding is cybersecurity,” said Brockett, the Deputy Chief Information Officer…
CISO Spotlight – Life After Being A CISO: Jay Leek, Managing Partner & Co-Founder, SYN Ventures
Posted on: 27 Mar 2024
The startup world fascinated Jay Leek when he worked as Chief Information Security Officer at some of the world’s biggest companies. The former Blackstone CISO and senior security executive at…
CISO Spotlight: Bil Harmer, Craft Ventures CISO
Posted on: 20 Mar 2024
Bil Harmer, Operating Partner, Security and Chief Information Security Officer for Craft Ventures, would love to see the CISO role go away. “That means you’ve reached a point where you’re…
CISO Spotlight: Deneen DeFiore, United Airlines CISO
Posted on: 20 Mar 2024
Deneen DeFiore was completing a master’s program in healthcare administration when she stumbled into technology and cybersecurity. “We were switching to electronic medical records and I kind of just gravitated…
CISO Spotlight: Donna Ross, Radian Group Inc. CISO
Posted on: 13 Mar 2024
Donna Ross, having completed a degree in economics, was working in one of the business lines at Prudential, but colleagues kept coming to her for help with technical issues. This…
Benny Lakunishok, CEO and Co-Founder, Zero Networks
Posted on: 12 Mar 2024
Benny Lakunishok was working on Microsoft’s EDL team, which produces one of the best such systems on the market, yet all of his customers were getting breached. “When I analyzed…