In this episode, we sit down with Venkat Balakrishnan, CISO from TAL Australia, as he discusses the evolving concept of platformization in cybersecurity. Venkat explores how consolidating various cyber functions and tools into single platforms can drive efficiencies, reduce costs, and simplify management efforts. He emphasizes the maturity of network security and endpoint security operations as key areas ready for platformization, while also discussing the fragmented nature of identity and access management.

Venkat is an experienced cyber security and technology risk executive with expertise in building cyber resilience, safely enabling business growth and inspiring customer trust. Adept in building relationships and influencing stakeholders at all levels across organisations with strong customer focus to deliver pragmatic and innovative solutions to derive business value. Passionate people leader with demonstrated success of developing diverse and high performing teams. Experienced in building security practices from grassroots with innovative approaches for modernisation and by accelerating into scalable and sustainable operations.