Being a chief info safety officer (CISO) in 2025 is a frightening position, however one which TechCentral’s visitor on this episode of the Meet the CIO relishes.
Kerissa Varma, who was just lately appointed as chief cybersecurity advisor in Africa for Microsoft, beforehand served as group CISO at Vodacom and earlier than that as group CISO at Outdated Mutual. She understands what it takes to be a number one CISO.
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She tells Meet the CIO about what’s concerned in being a pacesetter in enterprise cybersecurity, why she is obsessed with creating feminine expertise within the trade – she heads the South African chapter of Girls in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) – and what it takes to “make it” in what may be very a lot nonetheless a male-dominated trade.
Varma chats about her expertise as group CISO at Outdated Mutual and Vodacom. She additionally unpacks:
- How she grew to become a pacesetter within the enterprise safety house;
- The position of a CISO within the fashionable enterprise – and why interpersonal expertise are simply as key as understanding expertise;
- The highest capabilities and priorities of at the moment’s CISO;
- Methods to combat the cybercrime scourge – together with a take a look at how South African corporations ought to be coping with ransomware;
- Synthetic intelligence and the way it’s transformation the infosec house – the affect, the risk and the chance;
- Quantum computing and the affect it might have in years to come back;
- The gender imbalance within the infosec house and why it’s a priority to her;
- Expertise growth in cybersecurity in South Africa; and
- Her new position at Microsoft.
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