Phil Venables

All about cyber, resilience, risk, AI - at scale.

Partner - Ballistic Ventures / 4 x CISO / Board Director / Chief Risk Officer

[Phil Venables @philvenables]

Attackers have bosses and budgets too.

[Phil Venables @philvenables]

CISO 2.0

The Chief Information Security Officer role is fundamentally shifting from dealing with what they have to actively shaping business strategy.

The deployment of AI and the push for infrastructure modernization are expanding the traditional CISO role down two distinct new paths: the Chief Digital Risk Officer and the Chief Technology and Security Officer.

https://t.co/HwCYJYCrrI

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I'm very pleased to be joining the Board of @BreachRx, an awesome team, product, and category leader in incident response management.

BreachRx’s focus on scaling disciplined incident response aligns deeply with the needs of enterprises facing more simultaneous, complex, and scrutinized cyber events.

https://t.co/VDc0FXlb8z

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@arekfurt Yes, I’ve seen than in some organizations, thankfully none I’ve worked at. Increasingly less so in US public companies at least. Also, getting much better in private equity controlled companies (at least for the big PE shops).

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CISO 2.0

The Chief Information Security Officer role is fundamentally shifting from dealing with what they have to actively shaping business strategy.

A modern security leader doesn't just passively report to the Board, they actively educate directors to drive strategic outcomes. The Board becomes a tool they use to shape the enterprise.

https://t.co/HwCYJYCrrI

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Amazing F1 in Barcelona today, sad I wasn't there.

First all British podium since 1968.

First win for Lewis at Ferrari. McLaren improving.

[Phil Venables @philvenables]

CISO 2.0

The Chief Information Security Officer role is fundamentally shifting from dealing with what they have to actively shaping business strategy.

Moving from reactive "firestations" to scalable "flywheels" is the hallmark of true CISO 2.0 execution.

https://t.co/HwCYJYCrrI

[Phil Venables @philvenables]

CISO 2.0

The Chief Information Security Officer role is fundamentally shifting from dealing with what they have to actively shaping business strategy.

What does this mean and how are leading security teams navigating this change?

https://t.co/ipNTIZFMno

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Post storm circular rainbow over Manhattan.

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@jcroe @marcaross Sadly the "Get a Copy" link doesn't work @marcaross

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Mythos. Crazy, lines around the corner.

Wait till they find out it’s just a Greek restaurant.

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Wonder if they're regretting "making Google dance"

[Dan Liu @danliu]

It’s pretty astonishing that $MSFT is down 11% in the last 2 years.

Rewind 2 years and it looked perfectly positioned for the AI boom. It owns:

- windows, the dominant pc os
- github, where most of the world’s code is
- vscode, the most popular ide
- deepest partnership with openai
- most number of enterprise contracts
- office, where most non-coding computer tasks take place

And today it doesn’t have anything compelling to offer.

How did that happen?

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Good morning New York.

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I love this. Welcome to the real America.

https://t.co/7iai8uW4HZ

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Fantastic interview of Lloyd Blankfein (former Goldman Sachs' CEO) by @dhaber

If you don't want to read Lloyd's new autobiography (but you should) then this interview is the next best thing.

Of all my CEOs, Lloyd was the most helpful on all things cyber - largely because of the firm's culture of risk management and the nature of the Partnership structure.

Summary infographic (courtesy of NotebookLM) here.

https://t.co/IUxiUoB8vm

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The return of "self-funded bug-bounty platforms"

https://t.co/ooTO9NEFaR

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The latest biannual Benedict Evans presentation on "AI eats the world" is up, and it's great as ever. For me the most salient slides are:

https://t.co/5aZRjV9Die

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HackerOne H1 Platform: agentic continuous threat exposure management that closes the discovery to remediation gap.

https://t.co/Icv46UWSwz

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Malta, how my day began, then in London how the rest of my day is going :-(

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Regular rant about EU privacy policies. Every time I visit EU countries I get way more “cookie consent” click throughs (of course)….but also waaaaay more unintended email subscriptions from services I’ve used that I then have to unsubscribe from. Surely this is the opposite intent of what they wanted.

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AI Impact on Wide Area Networks.

Interesting report from Cisco on how AI traffic (agents, inference, etc) is different and what it means.

https://t.co/EFvR87ryCU