The Segment

In this episode, host Raghu Nandukumara sits down with Illumio CTO and Co-Founder PJ Kirner, to discuss Illumio’s founding story, taking a data-driven approach to innovation and market validation, and what RSA attendees should be thinking about as they gear up for this year’s conference.  -------- "I do think we fell off the bandwagon with all this implicit trust in the environment…All these thing...

In this episode, host Raghu Nandakumara sits down with Stephen Coraggio and Greg Tkaczyk, Managing Partner and Executive Consultant at IBM Security, to discuss the business value of cybersecurity, defining your crown jewels, and overcoming “analysis paralysis” and other Zero Trust challenges.  -------- “Back in the day it was around protecting everything, encrypting everything, and really making s...

In this episode, host Raghu Nandakumara and Vishal Salvi, CISO and Head of the Cyber Practice at Infosys, explore the evolution of the CISO over the past 25 years, democratizing cybersecurity and why “doing the boring things right” matters.    -------- “If you start taking an approach of zero tolerance—we need to start getting a sense of more governance around how do we manage this? While we want...

In this episode, host Raghu Nandakumara and Gerald Caron, Former Chief Information Officer for the Office of the Inspector General at the US Department of Health and Human Services, unpack how to manage operational risk, the role of data mapping in any successful Zero Trust strategy, and demonstrating ROI.  -------- “Because when you're managing risk, it's not just an IT thing. It's also a mission...

In this episode, host Raghu Nandakumara chats with George Finney, best-selling author and Chief Security Officer at Southern Methodist University, about his experiences with Zero Trust in higher education, the cultural elements of cybersecurity, his new book “Project Zero Trust” and why some Zero Trust projects fail.  -------- “That understanding fundamentally of trust is something we don't necess...

In this episode, host Raghu Nandakumara sits down with Chase Cunningham, former Forrester analyst and “Dr. Zero Trust”, to discuss the evolution of the Zero Trust framework and what organizations get wrong when mapping out their Zero Trust strategies.  -------- “...John [Kindervag] says it all the time: Trust is a human emotion; we've built it into computers. If you remove the trusted relationship...

In the past two years, more than three-quarters of organizations have been attacked by ransomware, and over two-thirds have experienced at least one software supply chain attack. Attackers are smarter, more sophisticated and move more quickly than ever. If your organization hasn’t been breached yet, odds are you will be.  On “The Segment: A Zero Trust Leadership Podcast”, you will hear from indust...