Katrina Biscay, CISO at University of Cincinnati, and Michael Coates, CEO and Co-Founder of Altitude Networks, discuss the unique security challenges of higher education, build security programs and staffing for the multitude of security responsibilities at a university, and universities can approach cloud and data security.

Justin Berman, CISO of Thirty Madison, and Michael Coates, CEO and Co-Founder of Altitude Networks, discuss the unique challenges CISO’s face, as well as the security demands of taking a startup from Zero to One.

Bob Lord, former CSO of the Democratic National Committee, and Michael Coates, CEO of Altitude Networks, discuss the state of cybersecurity today - what's working, what isn't working, and the biggest challenges in the security industry.

Steve Tran, CISO of MGM, and Michael Coates discuss the constantly shifting technologies and risks faced by security leaders, as well as the unique security challenges in the entertainment industry.

On this episode of CISO to CISO we would like to welcome Will Pizzano, founder of Sentant, a modern and security-focused IT consulting firm operating in the Bay Area and NYC, former CISO at Hustle, and former Director of IT at Thrasys Inc. As the founder of Sentant, Will currently act as virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) at several technology firms. The Sentant team supports their clients with everything from cloud and application security to day-to-day IT. Will is a lifelong...

On this episode of CISO to CISO we would like to welcome Eric Sorenson, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at doTERRA International LLC. Eric architects, develops, and implements the technologies that keep private data safe from intrusions and theft. Eric joined dōTERRA in 2016 to build the organization’s first comprehensive, global cybersecurity strategy. From his earlier days at HealthEquity to the CIO/CISO dual role at Arches Health Plan, and now at dōTERRA, Eric has evolved a set...

On this episode of CISO to CISO we would like to welcome Chris Houlder, Head of Global CyberSecurity at BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. With nearly 25 years of experience spanning information security, team management, information technology and product/software security, Chris has been developing and executing strategies to solve complex security challenges and leading operational and company changes. Previously, Chris served as CISO and lead teams at Clarivate Analytics and Autodesk. Chris...

On this episode of CISO to CISO we would like to welcome Surbhi Tugnawat. Surbhi has been a reliable, driven, and award winning risk professional with over 15 years of experience driving change to improve risk posture, regulatory compliance, cost efficiency, and achieve enterprise overall security objective. Provide tactical oversight for Identity Management, Security Operations, Business Enablement and Risk Management. She serves as a Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Member for...

On this episode of CISO to CISO we would like to welcome Rohit Parchuri, CISO at Collective Health, previously a security leader at Service Now and Rackspace. Rohit is an accomplished Security leader with an established record building, structuring and institutionalizing Security principles and disciplines in the Cloud Hosting, Network hardware(IaaS), Cloud Software(Saas & PaaS), and Healthcare domains. He is currently leading the enterprise security program at Collective Health, a health...

We are excited to welcome Lisa Hall, Director of Information Security at PagerDuty on our next episode of the CISO-to-CISO podcast. Lisa Hall heads the Information Security and Compliance programs at PageDuty. With over 14 years experience in the information security field, she is focused on building security programs from the ground up, strategic planning, risk management, and driving process adoption company-wide. She believes security should make it easy to do the right thing. Lisa has...

We are excited to welcome Keith McCartney, VP of Security & IT at DNAnexus on our next episode of the CISO-to-CISO webcast (later posted also in podcast version). As an electrical engineer in spirit and an Information Technology executive by trade, Keith has established a record of success in improving security posture, prioritizing issue remediation, mitigating risks, and delivering innovative solutions to meet evolving business and industry needs. Throughout his career, Keith has...

We are excited to welcome Emilio, CISO at Datadog and former VP of InfoSec at Hulu on our next episode of the CISO-to-CISO webcast (later posted also in podcast version). After 4 years at Hulu, where he was heading Information Security, Emilio recently accepted a CISO position at Datadog, a leading service for cloud-scale application monitoring. Emilio is a security leader with a strong technical background, which always makes for a great conversation with Michael: they will touch on topics...

Andy Steingruebl has joined Pinterest in November 2018 to be their first Chief Security Officer. He's been in security for over 20 years, collecting experiences in a multitude of areas of security, especially within highly regulated environments like healthcare and financial services, including at PayPal for more than 12 years. Join the Altitude Networks CEO, Michael Coates, in this webcast discussion with Andy to hear more about Andy's career path and his vision for the future!

As CSO and Head of Trust Engineering & Data Science, Vijaya is responsible for Information Security and Trust Technology to protect Airbnb's community and platform. Vijaya was named as one of the Top 25 Women in SaaS for 2018, and Top Revolutionary Women in Security 2019. Vijaya Kaza has more than 20 years of broad executive leadership experience having led Engineering, Product Management, Information Security and Data Science organizations ranging startups to large companies both in...

Yassir Abousselham joined Splunk in January, where he is responsible to protect company systems and the data entrusted by its employees, customers, and investors. Prior to Splunk, Yassir served as Chief Security Officer at Okta and Chief Information Security Officer at SoFi, in addition to holding various security leadership roles at Google and Ernst & Young. Yassir holds two U.S. patents in trusted network communication and is an active member in the cybersecurity industry, from...

Joel Fulton has recently left his CISO position at Splunk to immerse himself in the life of the Silicon Valley startups. Formerly he served as the Deputy Chief Security Officer at Symantec, Global Head of Risk at Google, and other security roles at Jefferson Wells, Starbucks, Boeing, North Cascades Bank. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Security and Assurance. Currently, Joel is the Founder of a stealth mode startup and will join Michael to discuss how his journey in the field of security...

Ben Hagen is the Director of Information Security at Cruise, leading a team to build security solutions, patterns, and capability for the Autonomous Vehicle technology company. Formerly Ben served as the Head of Corporate Information Security at Facebook, the Vice President/Principal Security Architect at Salesforce, and held senior security roles at Netflix, Obama for America, Neohapsis, Motorola. "Security is not the problem of the security team. It should be a shared ownership across the...

Yaron is the CISO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, who has more than 20 years of experience in cyber security and Information technology. Yaron held venture advisor roles for SideChannel Security, Cyberstarts, YL Ventures, and is on the board of advisors of Glilot Capital Partners, SafeBreach, Optiv Inc, WhiteHat Security, IntSights. Yaron specializes in creating and managing security strategies, building and maturing security practices, cyber defense teams and DevSecOps...

Olivia is the Vice President of Information Security & Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at The RealReal, who has 18 years experience delivering cybersecurity programs. Before TheRealReal, she was the CISO of Mailchimp, and held senior security roles at Kudelski Security, QloudSecure, ControlScan, Solutionary, IBM Internet Security Systems on security programs. Her areas of expertise include enterprise security programs development and execution, advising CISOs and executive...

Flee is the CISO of GUSTO and has more than 16 years leading global information security and privacy efforts. Before Gusto, he lead information security at large financial services companies and technology startups, most recently at Square. He previously held senior security and privacy roles at Bank of America, Betfair, NetSuite and Twilio. As Gusto’s CSO, Flee leads the company’s information and physical security strategies, including consumer protection, compliance, governance and...