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.

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 ArizonaMichael Toland - Chief Information Security Officer, State of OklahomaDavid Cagigal - Former State of Wisconsin CIO/CXO Advisor

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, explain how PE firms and their portfolio companies can reduce risks, foster a safer and more secure operating environment, and achieve better results.

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.

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.”

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 governance are front and center.

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 playing big games that came with more risk but had more impact.

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.

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.”

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 oversightDefining cyber materiality, including financial and non-financial factorsHow CXOs and boards should interactWhat should boards know about zero trust

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.

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 governmentInformation sharing between private and public entities for threat intelligence, risk assessments, tabletop exercises, and incident responseThe progress and the gaps across city, county, and state levels to pool resources to stay aheadHow to build a diverse, inclusive cyber workforceRecorded live, this engaging panel moderated by Kavitha Mariappan, Zscaler EVP, Customer Experience & Transformation at Zscaler, includes Chris DeRusha, Federal CISO & Deputy National Cyber Director, and David Cagigal, former CIO of State of Wisconsin & CXO REvolutionary.

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.

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.

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.

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 dependent on these systems and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.