In this week’s episode, Anna is joined again by Vijay Krishnan, the Chief Information Security Officer at UniSuper. In this episode, Vijay shares his insights as a CISO into what questions he dreads being asked the most, and what questions he wished board members asked. He also discusses the security of critical infrastructure changes that have come through and how he interprets new regulatory requirements, and how to integrate those into existing strategy and roadmap.

Vijay leads UniSuper's Information Security including Security Operations, Security Governance, Risk & Compliance, Security Strategy, Architecture & Design, Identity & Access Management, and Enterprise Observability. He leads a multi-year security program to reduce UniSuper security risk, thus protecting UniSuper members. Vijay has extensive experience negotiating clear and concise security and technology outcomes in regulatory, policy, and outsourcing agreements delivering value-creation opportunities. He has considerable, diverse national and international experience with extensive executive and Board level exposure. Previously he was leading Information security at Transurban, accountable for IT and OT security including accountability for PCI DSS compliance.

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