A CISO’s Journey: Mani Nagothu, SentinelOne

2024-06-06

The CISO’s role is changing; that is clear enough. Indeed, constant change and the need to adapt is always a feature of cybersecurity. And that’s why our guest this week lists curiosity as one of the key attributes for a cybersecurity career. Mani Nagothu is field CISO at SentinelOne. Before that she headed up IT security for an energy company. That followed a career as a consultant. But she didn’t start out in cybersecurity, but as an engineer. And the CISO’s role itself is beco...

The CISO’s role is changing; that is clear enough.

Indeed, constant change and the need to adapt is always a feature of cybersecurity.

And that’s why our guest this week lists curiosity as one of the key attributes for a cybersecurity career.

Mani Nagothu is field CISO at SentinelOne. Before that she headed up IT security for an energy company. That followed a career as a consultant.

But she didn’t start out in cybersecurity, but as an engineer. And the CISO’s role itself is becoming less technical, and more business focused, she says.

In this episode Mani talks to Stephen Pritchard about her career so far, what it takes to be successful as a CISO, and why greater diversity is the key to strengthening our security teams, and so our defences.

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