In this episode, we speak with Mary-Beth Hosking, the Global Chief Information Officer for PointsBet. Mary-Beth leads a global team to support one of Australia’s premier sports betting applications. She has over 17 years’ experience leading restructures in multinational organisations including BP and Specsavers. Prior to her corporate life, Mary-Beth was an accomplished singer, and is currently authoring a book talking about leading change as a CIO. We speak to Mary-Beth about the Optus data breach, as well as how to develop a robust information security strategy.

Optus data breach: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/29/optus-data-breach-everything-we-know-so-far-about-what-happened

Chapter markers:

2:00: Learnings from Optus data breach

9:07: Strategies to protect customer data

16:45: Embracing individuality in the corporate world

21:41: Proactive vs reactive information security

30:04: Getting buy-in from non-technical leaders