Antonie Falco, Zscaler CTO-in-Residence based in Australia, shares deep insights into digital transformation success. While at NSW Health, the largest healthcare system in Australia, and one of the largest in the world, Falco and his team led a zero trust architecture initiative to improve user experience and security for 180,000 users. Discover what it takes to deliver a modern digital experience in healthcare and education. IT leaders must always innovate and work together, with strong, high-l...
Oct 01, 2024•33 min•Season 4Ep. 42
Kavitha Mariappan, Zscaler EVP of customer experience and transformation and Ian Tan, chief transformation officer at SM Prime Holdings, dive into how one of the leading integrated property developers in Southeast Asia is using zero trust to address IT modernization and security challenges. Tune in to this episode to learn how: Understanding the complexity of traditional networking infrastructure allows you to appreciate the value of zero trust to eliminate it Teaming up with your vendor on a co...
Sep 17, 2024•46 min•Season 4Ep. 41
In the second part of a two-episode series, Zscaler CXO Advisor Bruce Lee shares how technology can drive innovation, drawing from his experiences at global enterprises to show how cloud infrastructure and zero trust security promote business growth and competitiveness. Along the way, he drops golden advice to CXOs, such as to anticipate and prepare to be hit by innovation. So don't get too attached to any technology, he urges, even if it's the right capability today, it will likely not be tomor...
Aug 26, 2024•22 min•Season 4Ep. 40
In this two-part episode, we welcome Zscaler CXO Advisor Bruce Lee to talk about the pivotal role of CIOs and CTOs in steering innovation, guided by the "Three Horizons" model from the book, "The Alchemy of Growth." By applying dedicated and simultaneous efforts to current operations, exploring new opportunities, and reimagining business models, you can ensure growth and longevity for your enterprise.
Aug 19, 2024•24 min•Season 4Ep. 39
This episode showcases a mix of innovation highlights from the CXO Experience at Zenith Live '24 in Las Vegas last month. Listen to four Zscaler executives cover the value and technical details behind data fabric, breach prediction, application segmentation, and zero trust SIM.
Jul 11, 2024•20 min•Season 4Ep. 38
Kavitha Mariappan, Zscaler EVP of Customer Experience and Darren Beattie, Head of Information Security at Tower Insurance, investigate the cybersecurity challenges facing the Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) region. No matter where you are in the world, the conversation holds important insights, including: • How major cyberattacks in the region are shaping policy and driving cooperation • How global cyber issues become problems at the regional and local level • The importance of champion building...
Jun 21, 2024•57 min•Season 4Ep. 37
James Beeson, an advisor, board member, investor, and former Global CISO for The Cigna Group and GE Capital, joins the show to share his deep experience and insights on communicating cyber risk, collaborating with CIOs, and establishing oneself as a trusted professional. Learn why keeping the difference between what you say and what you do to a minimum is critical to integrity and effectiveness.
May 31, 2024•47 min•Season 4Ep. 36
Recorded at RSA Conference 2024, Nat Smith, Senior Director, Product Management at Zscaler goes past the headlines to expose the technical and business value of the announcement between Zscaler and Google Chrome Enterprise and recent Zscaler acquisitions.
May 16, 2024•47 min•Season 4Ep. 35
State-level executive leaders draw on their transformation journeys and illuminate the path forward for a public sector with modernized cyber posture. Learn what is being done and what is still needed to achieve collaborative cybersecurity across all government levels, and an integrated stance against cyber threats, particularly those targeting critical infrastructure. Guest speakers: J.R. Sloan - StateRAMP President, Chief Information Officer, State of Arizona Michael Toland - Chief Information...
Apr 03, 2024•51 min•Season 4Ep. 34
Did you know Zscaler serves six of the top-10 private equity (PE) firms, along with their portfolio companies? Meanwhile, its strategic partner, Persistent Systems has co-driven security modernization projects for PE firms and their portfolio companies, delivering stellar outcomes. In this episode, two leaders in the PE space, Akshay Grover, Global PE Practice & Advisory Alliances Lead at Zscaler, and George Symons Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure and Security, Persistent Systems, explai...
Mar 21, 2024•43 min•Season 4Ep. 33
Two pioneers of zero-trust security, Alex Philips (CIO of NOV) and Craig Clay (Former Lead Connectivity Architect at Shell and a Zscaler CXO Advisor), share invaluable lessons and insights about their past and present secure digital transformations.
Mar 06, 2024•50 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Through the power of stories and divergent thinking, Zscaler Chief AI Officer Claudionor Coelho channels his technical knowhow to win over customers and teams. For him, virtually no idea is too complex or technical for a layperson once simplified through storytelling. In this interview, learn why Coelho hires people with viewpoints different than his to avoid blindspots, where AI and cybersecurity is headed (ready to be superhuman?), and to always remember, “customers pay your bills.”...
Feb 22, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Regarding GenAI, tech leaders grapple with enterprise readiness, business value, risk, and talent. Shamim Mohammad, Executive Vice President, CIO, and CTO at CarMax, and Greg Simpson, a Zscaler advisor and former CTO of Synchrony Financial, recently shared their insights for securely using AI with Kavitha Mariappan, Zscaler EVP, Customer Experience & Transformation. From creativity amplification to improved customer experience, there are huge gains you can help enable as long as security and...
Feb 05, 2024•37 min•Season 4Ep. 30
No stranger to change, Aeromexico CIO Fernando Rocha has been in the enterprise information technology driver’s seat, leading digital transformation across industries. In this discussion with host Ben Fanning, gain perspectives that can help you succeed, like building teams based not on experience but on a willingness to venture into the unknown to learn and develop. A turning point for Rocha was the realization that because he was afraid to fail, he was “playing small games to win” rather than ...
Jan 26, 2024•29 min•Season 4Ep. 29
As CIO of a 95,000-employee global powerhouse in healthcare technology, Medtronic's Rashmi Kumar is committed to success, innovation, inclusion, and securing patient, customer, and company information. Discover a compelling career origin story and journey with incredible advice that can help you set forth a vision and build influential teams and partnerships to succeed.
Jan 13, 2024•34 min•Season 4Ep. 28
As breaches go public, is an hour a year for cybersecurity enough for corporate board meetings? How should boards and CXOs collaborate in light of new SEC cyber rules? Guest Sanjit Ganguli, CTO-in-Residence at Zscaler and former Gartner analyst, sheds light on these questions and more while sharing perspectives on a new book he helped author, “Cybersecurity: Seven Steps for Boards of Directors.”
Dec 20, 2023•28 min•Season 3Ep. 27
The business need for board members to understand cyber risks has never been greater. Listen to this panel discussion featuring Andy Brown–a member of Zscaler's board of directors since October 2015 and CEO of Sand Hill East, and Sam Curry, VP & CISO in Residence at Zscaler, to learn how to effectively lead cyber risk at your organization. Topics covered include: The new expectation placed on corporate boards for cybersecurity oversight Defining cyber materiality, including financial and non...
Nov 27, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Drawing on recent survey results, Liz Ramey, senior director of content at Evanta, a Gartner Company, explains how CIOs are shifting their functional priorities to respond to ever-increasing demands to keep pace with the business and deliver results. Tune in to this episode to learn how technology leaders in the C-suite carry out their complex responsibilities today, such as juggling GenAI with non-tech demands and what it takes to succeed.
Oct 10, 2023•32 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Leading authorities discuss critical infrastructure, exploring broad and pressing matters, including: Ongoing approaches to cybersecurity and cyber defense and status of ‘whole of state’ How the critical infrastructure industry should collaborate with the government Information sharing between private and public entities for threat intelligence, risk assessments, tabletop exercises, and incident response The progress and the gaps across city, county, and state levels to pool resources to stay ah...
Sep 05, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Cyber defense has been an "infinite game" played on an uneven field, but deception can give the good guys the upper hand. Zscaler VP & CISO Sam Curry makes a compelling case for derailing even the most sophisticated hackers with unpredictable, hostile networks.
Jul 21, 2023•37 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Sanjit Ganguli, Vice President of Transformation Strategy & Field CTO at Zscaler, joins the show to discuss his coauthored authoritative zero trust monograph, the first of its kind for CXOs.
Jun 13, 2023•26 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Private equity firms searching for transaction opportunities are increasingly focused on portfolio performance. Underlying any success is the cyber resiliency of internal operations, portfolio companies, and transactions. In this episode, 20-year industry veteran and private equity practice lead at Zscaler, Akshay Grover, covers how leaders in PE can preserve and create value by applying cyber risk management measures.
May 17, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Exponential progress in AI is raising concerns as well as excitement. How worried should be? Zscaler VP & CISO-Americas Brad Moldenhauer joins the show to share perspectives on the top AI issues seemingly everyone is discussing today. Recorded at RSAC23, this episode explores what happens when intellectual property is placed into tools like ChatGPT; how such creative AI tools can be helpful for cyber defenders; do we need an AI policy or even an "AI czar" role; what happens if we get too dep...
May 10, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 20
Nathan Howe, Zscaler VP Emerging Tech and 5G, explains what's under the hood of the integrations between CrowdStrike, Zscaler, and Intel that were announced at RSA Conference 2023 in San Francisco.
Apr 28, 2023•24 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Personalized and role-specific, a new wave of virtual assistants is poised to upend everything from dashboards and time-to-insight to app interfaces and workflows. However, with that power also comes peril, as AI-related security, bias, and trust issues spur debate. Zscaler’s Sr. Vice President of New Initiatives, Raj Krishna, and Howie Xu, Vice President of AI and Machine Learning and creator of ZChat, unpack the latest in AI developments.
Mar 13, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 18
How do IT leaders secure approval, ensure stakeholder buy-in, and convert skeptics into champions for zero trust transformation? Mike Murphy, Zscaler VP of global value creation, previews his upcoming talk at the Global CISO Exchange in Miami this February 16-17. Viewed through the lens of a customer case study and building on the theme of "building a secure and resilient enterprise," Murphy explores how zero trust delivers bottom-line results for organizations.
Jan 30, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Dr. Ken Urquhart, global vice president of 5G at Zscaler, shares the latest developments for securing low-overhead, low-latency solutions at the network's edge, including how providers like AT&T and Intel are deploying zero trust in 5G applications. He also covers consolidation in the cybersecurity industry, best-of-breed vs. platform security, government regulation, enforcement, and more.
Nov 22, 2022•20 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Recorded in New York City at CXO Summit Live on October 25th, this episode welcomes back Dan Shelton, field CTO at Zscaler, to dive into challenges and solutions shared by CXOs, including: - Protecting your assets when users are everywhere, and business systems reside in multiple places - Educating the business on segmentation, risk, and zero trust - Simplifying policy and access to improve the end-user experience
Nov 08, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 15
This year, M&A will likely fall short of a record-breaking 2021 but will finish as one of the strongest markets of the past two decades. There will be some winners, but most deals will fall short of envisioned outcomes. IT leaders and corporate strategists can discover a winning formula by harnessing the cloud and digital transformation to accelerate the tech side of integrations or divestitures. Guest Stephen Singh, Global VP, M&A/Divestiture and ITO leader Zscaler delivers the latest o...
Sep 22, 2022•24 min•Season 2Ep. 14
The responsibilities of security executives are morphing in response to macro global developments. Meanwhile, growing cyber risk and complex regulations are elevating the profile of CISOs and redefining their relationship with CIOs and the rest of the organization. CXO REvolutionary, board advisor, and former bp CISO Simon Hodgkinson and VP, Global Transformation Strategy Christoph Heidler cover the implications and share guidance for cyber and IT execs.
Aug 09, 2022•21 min•Season 2Ep. 13
