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The Role of the CIO is Changing –

Are You On Your Way Out?

Wayson Vannatta

CIO, WatchGuard Technologies

September 16, 2019


About Me

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Who We Are

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Founded in 1996

HQ: Seattle, WA

700+ Employees

100+ Distributors

9,000+ Active

VARs

80K+ Customers

Operations in 5

countries; direct

presence in 21

Network

Security

Secure

WirelessMulti-factor

Authentication

Why this topic?

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Almost half of

organizations expect

to change their

product/service

offering or business

model in the next

three years

Fewer CIOs now

sit on the board

– dropping from

71% to 58% in 2

years

A third plan to replace

more than 20% of roles

with AI/automation within

5 years

Almost two-thirds

(63%) of

organizations now

allow "business-

managed IT" spend

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Disruptions


Cloud Information

Security

Data

Our creative and problem solving

roles are shifting

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Current Disruptions

Cloud

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Multi-

Cloud

Hybrid

Cloud

Containers

DevOpsTechnical and Cultural Shift

More

collaboration

and

communication

across orgs

Shared

responsibilities

and autonomous

teams

Increased

efficiency

and improve

deployment

frequency

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Infrastructure as Code

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Compute Network Storage

O/S DNS DB

Applications/ServicesApp Setup/Config

Server Setup

Database

App Mgmt

IT DevOps

Network

IAM/Security

Disaster Recovery

Code Deploy


Shift Happens

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The infrastructure and application are

no longer separate

They are inclusive

Rise of the CTO…

The CIO role

can easily

shift to

CTO/SVP of SE

The team gets

the same

vision and

direction

Recognize more

agility and

can take

advantage of

new

technologies

(like

containers)

Adoption of

SaaS

continues to

grow

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Information Security

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It takes

companies

about 6

months to

detect a data

breach

Estimated $6

trillion in

cybersecurity

damages by

2021

Forbes zdnet

By 2024, cyber

security market

will be $300B

industry

Global Markets

Privacy and Compliance

GDPR:

Introduced

more PII

levels; i.e IP

Address or MAC

Address

CCPA:

Consumer have

the right to not

have their info

sold to 3rd

parties

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Shift Happens

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The Information Security

role has shifted from an

advisor to the head of IT

position

Trusted security advisor and

decision maker at the highest

level:

• specializing in risk management

• data protection

• privacy and compliance


Rise of the CISO

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The CIO role

can easily

shift to CISO

An Information

Security

Advisor to the

Board

Risk Manager:

Probabilities

and Impact to

the company’s

posture to

known

frameworks

Determining

the business

impact to

Privacy and

Compliance

Data

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Using big

data, Netflix

saves $1B per

year on

customer

retention

Walmart stores

2.5 PB of

customer data

to increase

sales

Bank used data

analytics to

reduce risk

evaluation

from 18 hrs to

minutes


AI/ML have the

potential to

create an

additional $2.6T

in value by 2020

in Marketing and

Sales

Spending on

cognitive

systems will

reach $77.6B in

2022, more than

three times the

$24.0B forecast

for 2018

Microsoft has the

most AI patents

at 697; they

believe it gives

them significant

competitive

impact

Cognitive Services

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McKinsey IDG As of Jan 1, 2019


Shift Happens

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Companies worry less

about who has access to

the data and how much

to store

• Increase demands for faster

and comprehensive access to

data

• The Digital Transformation

• Number of tools to process

and see your data


Rise of the CDO

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The CIO role

can easily

shift to CDO

Leads

organization

data

governance,

management

and

protection

Is more

technically

savvy and

leverage of

new

technologies

to take

complete

ownership of

data

The embedding

of AI in

systems will

reduce the

amount of

decisions we

make b/c the

system will

do it for us

Now What

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OPPORTUNITY

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Transform Your

Inner “I”

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C O

Improvement

Instigator

Influencer

Investment

Innovative

Initiative

Inspiration

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Chief Improvement Officer

▪ Learn Python or Ruby to enhance cloud

management

▪ Learn about security coding practices

▪ Subscribe to a Podcast: CISO

Relationship; 443; Arrested DevOps; Super

Data Science

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Chief Instigation Officer

▪ Drive the change in

your organization

▪ Challenge the the old

data warehouse

appliance no one wants

to touch

▪ Engage employees on

security and connecting

your vision to them

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Chief

Influencing

Officer

▪ Understand your CMO’s

agenda to provide them

with more data

▪ Be proactive with Legal

when it comes to

privacy and compliance

▪ Engage your Board and

understand their agenda

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Chief Investment Officer

▪ Must show and deliver value

▪ Educate your CFO on your security

budget strategy

▪ Be transparent to your stakeholders on

what your organization is working on

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Chief Innovative Officer

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▪ Developing and refining business strategy

that bakes security into your roadmap

▪ Advocate for security to be built into the

DevOps cycle

▪ Use a cloud Data Warehouse to store your

older logs to reduce your cost but still

give you the ability to troubleshoot


Chief Initiative Officer

▪ Take the lead on business initiatives

▪ Increase operational efficiency by

introducing AI/ML capabilities before your

customer asks

▪ Stay on top of a changing security market

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Chief Inspiration Officer

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▪ Set the vision

▪ Clear up ambiguity

▪ Empower your teams

▪ Remove their roadblocks

▪ Develop more business leaders

C O

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ImprovementInstigatorInfluencerInvestmentInnovativeInitiativeInspiration


Thank You!

▪ Visit us at Booth #300

▪ Questions? Please feel free to reach

out to me at

[email protected]

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The Role of the CIO is Changing – Are You On Your Way Out?€¦ · Rise of the CDO 19 The CIO role can easily shift to CDO Leads organization data governance, management and protection