Managing Supply Chain Risk – Saša Zdjelar – BTS #24
Saša Zdjelar joins us on this episode to dive into how organizations can manage supply chain risk, including the current challenges we face and how best to deal with them.
This segment is sponsored by Eclypsium. Visit https://securityweekly.com/eclypsium to learn more about them!
Announcements
Below the surface listeners can learn more about Eclypsium by visiting eclypsium.com/go - there you will find the “Ultimate guide to supply chain security”, an on-demand webinar I presented called “Unraveling Digital Supply Chain Threats and Risk”, a paper on the relationship between ransomware and the supply chain, and a customer case study with Digital Ocean. If you are interested in seeing our product in action you can also sign up for a demo, you can get all that at eclypsium.com/go!
Guest
Saša is the Chief Trust Officer (CTrO) at ReversingLabs and an Operating Partner at Crosspoint Capital with ~20 years of Fortune 10 global executive leadership experience. His CTrO scope includes leadership, oversight and governance of the CISO/CSO function, including product security, as well as partnering with other leaders on corporate and product strategy, strategic partnerships and research, and customer and technology advisory boards, including sponsoring the ReversingLabs CISO Council. Prior to ReversingLabs and Crosspoint Capital, Saša served as the Senior Vice President of Security at Salesforce, where he led a global organization encompassing enterprise security, product security, offensive security, security engineering/automation, bug bounty programs, technical product/program/project management, and mergers & acquisitions. He also played a crucial role as the executive sponsor for strategic corporate security initiatives, such as Zero Trust.
Prior to his tenure at Salesforce, Saša spent nearly two decades at ExxonMobil, holding various positions focusing on business and technology strategy, enterprise security & architecture, software engineering, ERP systems design/integration, program and product management, planning & stewardship, compute and hosting platforms, and digital/cyber resilience.
Saša is an active participant and founding member of several CxO/CISO leadership communities. He is also a member of the Forbes Technology Council, Member of the Board at the National Technology Security Coalition (NTSC), a Fellow at the Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI) and Center for Global Enterprise (CGE), a member of the BlackHat CISO Summit Advisory Board and BlackHat Content Review Board. His insights have been published in various industry publications, and he has spoken at numerous industry conferences and universities.
Saša holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management and a Master’s degree in Decision Science from the University of Florida.