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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In this week’s episode, Anna is joined by Vijay Krishnan, the Chief Information Security Officer at UniSuper. In this episode, Vijay shares his journey working in cyber, including his time working at UniSuper with Anna, the value that one can bring when beginning a new role in an organisation, and his advice on engaging a board on cyber.

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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Vijay LinkedIn

For the full episode transcript, please visit our website.

Over several episodes, Anna and Claire will take turns sharing a chapter from their book, The Secure Board, in audiobook form, so you can hear how to be confident that your organisation is cyber safe.

In this episode, Anna shares the book's fifth chapter, Element 5, where Anna and Claire discuss understanding the role of the CISO, and if you need one.

Previous episodes:

Episode 64: Introduction to The Secure Board

Episode 70: Element 1 of The Secure Board

Episode 72: Element 2 of The Secure Board

Episode 73: Element 3 of The Secure Board

Episode 74: Element 4 of The Secure Board