What CISOs Want

Posted: September 18th, 2018

By Robert D. Rodriguez

Robert D. Rodriguez is the Chairman & Founder of SINET, a purpose driven community focused on the advancement of innovation and the enablement of global collaboration between the public and private sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. SINET is a “Super Connector” within the ecosystem of the entrepreneur; bringing together innovators with executives from private industry, venture capital, investment banking, system integration, policy, legal, academia and the science communities as well as the Federal Government’s civilian, military and intelligence agencies. SINET hosts trusted Summits, Workshops and Public Private Partnership Dinners where the business of Cyber takes place at the highest executive levels; Davos, Paris, Toronto, Silicon Valley, Scottsdale, Sydney, London, Melbourne, Washington, D.C. and New York City. The US Department of Homeland Security Science &Technology Directorate and the United Kingdom and Australian Governments support SINET. Since 2005 Mr. Rodriguez has advised and coordinated the public - private sector outreach for DHS S&T, SRI International, Stanford University, United Kingdom Government; Cabinet, Home and Cybersecurity, Digital Communications and Economy Unit, Australian Government DATA 61 & AustCyber, UNC- Charlotte, The Department of Defense, United States Postal Service and participated as a member of the US Air Force Cybersecurity Advisory Board. He has been called upon numerous times by private industry and the Federal Government to help advise and build private sector outreach initiatives with corporations, the entrepreneurial and venture capital communities. Previously, he served 22 years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service where he held a number of executive leadership positions within the Presidential Protection, Protective Intelligence, Inspection and Criminal Investigation Divisions and the Counter Assault Team. His executive protection experience spanned 10 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald W. Reagan, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton and numerous Heads of State. He sits on numerous Cybersecurity Advisory Boards, is a Venture Partner with SineWave Ventures, serves as Director Emeritus for the San Francisco Foster Farms Bowl, Standard Governing Board for Digital Rights Management (xDTM) and is a certified graduate of the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service Program.

CEOs, CISOs’ CTO’s and other c-suites are meeting at SINET’s Global Cybersecurity Innovation Summit in London this week. Cipher Brief CEO & Publisher Suzanne Kelly, who is moderating a session on the global cyber influence of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, also had the private sector in mind when she talked SINET Founder and Chairman Robert Rodriguez about what CISOs want most.

Kelly: I thought we’d talk a little bit about CISOs and what they’re really looking for today – is it better relationships with C-suite executives, is it having more resources, getting better information? What do you think tops their list of concerns?

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