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Miten Marvania

Senior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio

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Do recent Facebook data scandals shake your confidence in Workplace by Facebook?

End-User Services & Collaboration Applications & Platforms

Yes

Neutral

What scandals?

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Do you have remote employees on your team?

Talent Management & Performance

Yes

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How many direct reports away from the CEO is the senior-most security executive?

Security & GRC Team & Organizational Design

Direct report

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What are small-medium sized organizations using for Windows Client computer upgrades (win7 to 10), refreshes of win 10.

Security & GRC

System Center Configuration Manager

Other - Please list in comments

Windows AutoPilot with MDM/Intune

Standard imaging: The past

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In the future, over 50% of any organization's workforce will be remote at any given time.

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Agree

Disagree

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Is your company coming to terms with machine learning biases more so than before?

AI & Machine Learning

Yes

Unsure

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What's the most important friction in deploying Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in your company?

People & Leadership Applications & Platforms Engineering+14 more

Cost of RPA products

Lack of developers who can code RPA applications

Amount of customization needed to automate business processes

Lack of RPA code maintenance resources

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As an employee, which of the following best describes how well your organisation has done on the communication side throughout the pandemic and lockdown?

Talent Management & Performance Culture & Values Collaboration Solutions+2 more

Brilliant - consistent flow of information and transparency

Very good - I've been kept up to date with regular information and feel included in developments as they happen

Good - I've been kept up to date with regular information

Okay - I've been kept up to date but not always in real-time

Poor - communication has been irregular and on a need to know basis

Very poor - communication has been irregular and has left me feeling disconnected from my company

Other - they haven't always got it right but they have been trying their best

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What are the biggest technical challenges preventing organizations from being able to use their existing data to better understand their customers?

Cloud Applications & Platforms Governance, Risk & Compliance+13 more

Finding data and putting it to good use

Controlling the security and privacy of data

Understanding how data is currently being used

All of the above

None of the above

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In the age of cloud computing and remote working, is the traditional firewall dead?

Cloud End-User Services & Collaboration Engineering+10 more

The firewall is dead

Long live the firewall

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Is anyone using ServiceNow for their workflow and ITSM needs? Do you manage your ServiceNow internally or do you outsource the mgmt of it to ServiceNow partner? I have worked with few “expert” partners but have found that they lack the business context and domain expertise in the platform. Any recommendation on best strategy and partners for managing ServiceNow platform?

Applications & Platforms Governance, Risk & Compliance Productivity Tools+14 more

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)4 years ago

We used their hosted services with primarily internal resources. We were very satisfied with Service Desk portion but trying to automate Inventory of servers, server based software was a disaster. Desktop and laptop inventory ...read more

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What do you hope the lasting impact of Log4j will be?

Threat & Vulnerability Management Third Party Risk Management (TPRM)Risk Management

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

I hope the lasting conversation is around the supply chain itself. We keep forgetting that the internet is not inherently secure because it's open source. It's written by people in the same way that bespoke code is, ...read more

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How are you dealing with the continued prevalence of ransomware attacks?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Backup & Disaster Recovery Threat & Vulnerability Management

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

The risk assumption that I operate on is that things are broken, you just don't know how. So how do you plan defense responses, and even detection and mitigation that is reflective of that fact. You won’t be able to solve ...read more

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What makes operational technology (OT) particularly vulnerable to cyber attacks?

Third Party Risk Management (TPRM)Threat & Vulnerability Management Threat Intelligence & Incident Response

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

PLCs and other 30-year-old equipment are running Windows CE or Windows 95, which can't be changed. You can't put EDR on them because it doesn't take an agent, so what do you do? You either have to take it off ...read more

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How do you improve cybersecurity without driving up costs?

Security Strategy & Roadmap IT Strategy & Roadmap Cost Optimization

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

When you do root cause analysis on cybersecurity incidents, it comes down to a few basic things. Either the company didn't have good controls in place to begin with, or they thought they had controls in place, but those ...read more

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Are people still looking at Log4j code, or has everyone moved on from it?

Threat & Vulnerability Management Third Party Risk Management (TPRM)Risk Management

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

I'm surprised that the roar over Log4j has dulled and gone quiet. I expected it to go on much longer than it did, and thought I would have seen a lot of security bug folks looking at the code even closer and finding a ...read more

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Are standard operating procedures (SOPs) valued across industries?

IT Strategy & Roadmap Process Management Operations Management

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

Coming from biotech in pharma, everything we did had to be done according to standard operating procedures (SOPs). I couldn't build a system without having an SOP with the hardening guidelines and everything I had to ...read more

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What are organizations lacking in their cybersecurity posture?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Security Frameworks (NIST, CIS, CSF)Risk Management

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

I view cybersecurity as an 80/20 problem overall. 80% of it is hygiene and things that we've seen before — things that we can automate, in cases where automation is a viable and economic solution. It’s within the remaining ...read more

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When cybersecurity incidents result from your third- or fourth-party providers, who ends up taking liability?

Third Party Risk Management (TPRM)Risk Management Vendor Management

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

Sometimes companies have a third-party assessment organization that is responsible for managing its vendor relationships. Somewhere along the way, there could be a finding against that third party for their own failures. ...read more

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What is your definition of security?

Culture & Values Security Strategy & Roadmap Security & GRC

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

In the financial sector, my job is to secure the bank. Not only the infrastructure of the bank, but also make sure the products are available for our customers. That's the simple view of what security is for me: making ...read more

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What’s the most effective way to develop future CIOs in your organization?

IT Strategy & Roadmap Mentoring & Coaching Talent Management & Performance

Miten MarvaniaSenior Advisor, Cybersecurity at Blackstone. Former Co-founder and COO of Agio in Finance (non-banking)3 years ago

I don't think there's an easy answer. It's a partnership: Leaders have a responsibility to ensure we are making time to coach and help emerging leaders. And on the other side, those individuals need to have the ...read more

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