Cloudy With a Chance of Trust

ServiceNow veteran and Zscaler CTO in Residence Venkat Lakshminarayanan returns to the show for part 2 on self-healing infrastructure. Venkat and host Pamela Kubiatowski discuss organizational considerations when pursuing highly resilient network architecture, including convincing leaders of the business benefits, equipping IT teams with the skills to build and maintain the environment, and the need to take calculated risks when replacing legacy technologies. Don't miss this fascinating follow-up to our first installment.

Salesforce veteran and current Zscaler CTO in Residence Venkat Lakshminarayanan joins host Pamela Kubiatowski to discuss IT's Holy Grail – a self-healing infrastructure. Venkat parses the differences between self-service, self-solve, and self-heal; explains how zero trust plays a role by simplifying underlying architecture; and covers the essential role of AI/ML for pattern recognition and automated response.

Why doesn't malware hop from smartphone to smartphone as with computers? That’s the question that led former Airgap CTO Satish Mohan and his co-founders to a fundamental rethink of network segmentation. Mohan sat down with guest host and Zscaler CTO in Residence Sanjit Ganguli to discuss Airgap's origin story, challenges with traditional segmentation, and how a novel architecture helps to overcome them.

IT departments often battle the perception of being the "department of no.” In this episode, Zscaler CIO Praniti Lakhwara talks about her guiding principle of enabling every desk to be more productive while simultaneously managing the needs of the business. She discusses the CIO/CISO relationship, the biggest challenges facing CIOs today, the benefits of being “customer zero,” and more in this fascinating glimpse into the life of IT czar.

From missiles to your money, Regions Bank Senior VP of Cybersecurity Engineering Jay Patty has more than 20 years of cybersecurity experience protecting some of society’s most important assets. In this episode, he recalls his career trajectory and the personal traits that keep him seeking cyber’s toughest challenges. Tune in to learn critical differences between public and private sector cybersecurity, navigating complex compliance standards in regulated industries, and the crucial importance of having a hobby.