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Leadership Profile | August 20, 2025

How Investigative Skills Inform One CISO’s Approach to Cybersecurity

Leadership Profile | August 20, 2025

How Investigative Skills Inform One CISO’s Approach to Cybersecurity

Rick Orloff, CISO of Pure Storage, began his career as a licensed private investigator, operating his own firm and working with high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, including Oracle. How did he progress from private investigator to CISO? Orloff shares key moments from his career journey, his top cybersecurity priorities this year, and advice for those new to the CISO role.
Blog | August 4, 2024

The Value of Peer Insights in Gartner C-level Communities

Blog | August 4, 2024

The Value of Peer Insights in Gartner C-level Communities

In Gartner C-level Communities, the ongoing exchange of peer insights is driving innovative ideas and helping community members solve key leadership and business challenges. Here, we are highlighting the value peer insights have for Gartner C-level Community members.
Town Hall Insights | January 15, 2024

CISO Hot Topics - What's Your Take?

Town Hall Insights | January 15, 2024

CISO Hot Topics - What's Your Take?

As security topics find their way into the boardroom, it's up to Global CISOs to foster constructive conversations about the impacts of these trends. What are the hot topics in cybersecurity? Recently, the Global CISO Community gathered for a town hall to discuss the business impacts of emerging trends – these are their takeaways.
Leadership Profile | December 11, 2023

Laurent Amsel of Carrefour on 3 Priorities for CISOs Today

Leadership Profile | December 11, 2023

Laurent Amsel of Carrefour on 3 Priorities for CISOs Today

With the challenges facing security leaders today, CISO Laurent Amsel of Carrefour believes that it is essential for CISOs to focus on three main priorities to be successful in their roles. Learn more about his insights into communicating with the board, collaborating with peers, and running the roadmap of cybersecurity.
Survey Report | May 14, 2023

Top 3 Goals & Challenges for CISOs in 2023

Survey Report | May 14, 2023

Top 3 Goals & Challenges for CISOs in 2023

In 2023, security leaders remain ever-vigilant in protecting their organizations from an expanded threat landscape and sophisticated attacks, while securing investments in advanced technologies. In this report, we take a closer look at CISOs’ goals and objectives, based on our survey of more than 1,300 CISOs from leading companies around the world.
Session Insights | November 2, 2023

Life After CISO — What's Next?

Session Insights | November 2, 2023

Life After CISO — What's Next?

As a CISO, you have spent most of your career ascending to the top – the CISO role. You're finally there, but what's next? At the Global CISO Executive Summit, two current and two former CISOs led a discussion on setting yourself up for success for life after your CISO role – these are their takeaways.
Blog | February 27, 2024

Leading the Way – Talent Development as a Business Enabler

Blog | February 27, 2024

Leading the Way – Talent Development as a Business Enabler

At the Chicago CISO Executive Summit, Vice President and CISO of State Farm Jesse Magenheimer led a breakout session, along with Aman Raheja, CISO, IT Risk & IT Vendor Management at Humana, on how security executives can tie talent strategy and development to business outcomes. Here, Jesse shares some key takeaways from the session.
Peer Practices | April 26, 2021

Building a Culture of Security Through Communication

Peer Practices | April 26, 2021

Building a Culture of Security Through Communication

CISO TJ Mann of Children's Mercy Hospital built a security team from the ground up and instilled a culture of security throughout the organization. Read his key steps to making cybersecurity everyone’s job and mitigating risk through stakeholder buy-in.
Blog | February 20, 2024

Three Key Themes for CISOs in 2024

Blog | February 20, 2024

Three Key Themes for CISOs in 2024

As we kick off 2024 engagements with our CISO communities, we like to reflect on key topics, conversations and current events of the past year and synthesize them into critical focus areas for security leaders in the year ahead. Check out the 3 themes we think CISOs will focus on in 2024.
Leadership Profile | May 11, 2025

Leading Cybersecurity Transformation as a First-Time CISO

Leadership Profile | May 11, 2025

Leading Cybersecurity Transformation as a First-Time CISO

Sam Fariborz has risen to the position of CISO at David Jones, as she has consistently found opportunities in challenging situations. Now, one year into her inaugural CISO role, Sam reflects on her career path and shares insights as a new leader in the field.
Session Preview | August 13, 2024

Executive Strategy for Network and Security Convergence

Session Preview | August 13, 2024

Executive Strategy for Network and Security Convergence

At the Global CISO Executive Summit, Sanjay Beri, CEO & Co-Founder of Netskope, and Mike Uster, CIO & CTO of ManTech International, will lead a keynote on a different approach to securing and optimizing infrastructure. They will discuss how and why it simply isn’t enough for organizations to improve or add onto existing security and network tools – here’s a preview.
Blog | September 9, 2024

3 Themes from CISOs on their Outlook for AI

Blog | September 9, 2024

3 Themes from CISOs on their Outlook for AI

One of the top priorities for CISOs this year is Generative and Traditional AI. In a recent survey, we wanted to know how they are progressing on AI adoption and what their sentiments are about AI – here are 3 themes that emerged from 400+ CISO responses.
Survey Report | June 21, 2022

Top 3 Goals & Challenges for CISOs in 2022

Survey Report | June 21, 2022

Top 3 Goals & Challenges for CISOs in 2022

With the increase in cybersecurity threats and more awareness of security breaches, CISOs are in the spotlight more than ever when it comes to protecting their organizations. Here, we take a closer look at their security goals, based on responses from more than 1,000 CISOs in Evanta communities.
Peer Practices | July 20, 2021

Risk Mitigation Through Effective Communication

Peer Practices | July 20, 2021

Risk Mitigation Through Effective Communication

A challenge for many CISOs is translating cybersecurity language into digestible information that resonates with business stakeholders. Read how CISO Alex Bermudez of Panasonic Corporation of North America gains buy-in from executive leaders with effective communication strategies.
Infographic | February 28, 2022

2022 CISO Leadership Perspectives

Infographic | February 28, 2022

2022 CISO Leadership Perspectives

The CISOs’ role has increased in importance as cybersecurity threats are viewed as a serious risk to the business – not simply a problem for security or IT. As CISOs take a broad, enterprise approach to risk management, learn what 800 CISOs say are their most important priorities in 2022.
Blog | October 2, 2023

Leveraging the Power of Community to Develop Future Cyber Talent

Blog | October 2, 2023

Leveraging the Power of Community to Develop Future Cyber Talent

CISO Joshua Dray of San Jacinto College recently led a discussion for CISOs on how businesses and universities can work together to build a pipeline of cyber talent. Here, Joshua shares key takeaways about cybersecurity education initiatives and building a more sustainable talent pipeline.
Leadership Profile | November 25, 2024

Leading from the Front with the Chief Security Officer of Zscaler

Leadership Profile | November 25, 2024

Leading from the Front with the Chief Security Officer of Zscaler

Deepen Desai, Chief Security Officer of Zscaler, got his start in security by writing an AntiCheat program to catch gaming hackers while he was in graduate school. Read how this launched his career in cybersecurity, and find out what he’s hearing from CISOs about their top focus areas today.
Blog | October 20, 2020

Re-energizing the CISO

Blog | October 20, 2020

Re-energizing the CISO

As the CISO has evolved into an indispensable business leader for the large enterprise, two CISOs reflect here on their changing roles and ability to influence business strategy.
Blog | December 23, 2024

4 Highlights from CISOs on Change Management

Blog | December 23, 2024

4 Highlights from CISOs on Change Management

Given the importance of managing change when it comes to implementing IT and security initiatives, we recently surveyed CISOs in our communities on change management and how their companies are progressing at it. Here are four highlights based on more than 200 CISOs’ responses to our survey.
Blog | July 15, 2024

Six Highlights from CISO Executive Summits in Early 2024

Blog | July 15, 2024

Six Highlights from CISO Executive Summits in Early 2024

CISOs in Evanta communities across North America have connected with each other to network, share best practices and validate cybersecurity strategies 66 times at Evanta programs since January. Check out six highlights from 19 CISO Executive Summits this spring.
Infographic | July 6, 2023

CISO Community Pulse on AI & Your Business

Infographic | July 6, 2023

CISO Community Pulse on AI & Your Business

Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, CISOs have been evaluating the risks and the potential of AI tools. Recently, we asked CISOs across our communities for their thoughts on generative AI – here is what nearly 400 security leaders told us about AI and its impact on business in the future.
Session Insights | February 23, 2020

A Security Operations Roadmap

Session Insights | February 23, 2020

A Security Operations Roadmap

CISO Adam Evans of Royal Bank of Canada discusses how people, process, and technology interact to deploy a security operations center. Learn from his experience with SOCs below.