Keynote | Security Journey at Elastic
Source: YouTube · SANS Cloud Security · published Oct 25, 2024 · 34:42
The speaker, CISO at Elastic, outlines the six-year journey of building the company's security program, leveraging a unique cross-disciplinary background in law, accounting, and financial services to shape their approach 0:12-0:27.
Key Takeaways:
• The presentation focuses on the evolution of Elastic's security program from its inception to its current state and future goals 0:16-0:27.
• The speaker brings a rare combination of expertise to the CISO role, holding a law degree, an accounting degree, and a CPA license 0:36-0:42.
• This blend of legal, financial, and security knowledge provides a distinct advantage in navigating cross-functional security challenges 0:42-0:50.
• Before joining Elastic, the speaker spent 13 years working in the financial services industry 0:53-0:59.
This multifaceted foundation allows the speaker to approach cybersecurity not just from a technical standpoint, but through a comprehensive legal and financial lens.
Sources:
- 0:12-0:27 Introduction to the CISO role and the six-year security journey at Elastic
- 0:36-0:42 Discussion of the speaker's law and accounting degrees, plus CPA certification
- 0:42-0:50 How combining law, accounting, and security offers a unique perspective
- 0:53-0:59 Mention of 13 years in financial services prior to Elastic
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morning everyone happy to be here and I have never given a talk with a real time graphic being created so I'm really excited to see what that turns out to be so as Frank said I'm currently ciso at elastic been there just over six years and I'm going to talk today just about the journey that we have taken in that six and a half year time frame what we thought about as we started to put the program together where we are today and where we're looking to go in the future Frank already gave this description so I won't go into details but I do have as Frank mentioned law degree uh accounting degree and CPA licensed to Texas law and what I find is that gives me a really unique perspective in Security in working across all of those three functional areas and you'll see some of that as I talk Journ…