What Do CEOs Need To Know and Do For Cyber
Known as the CISO Whisperer, Yael Nagler is trusted by CISOs because of her ability to ‘read the room’ and to navigate corporate culture. She leads Yass Partners which delivers tools used by Security Leaders to amplify their impact.
Over the course of her 20+ year career, Yael architected a framework for understanding the management operating system of organizations and explains it in ways security professionals understand and can operationalize
Yael begrudgingly admits that she has over 20 years of experience that spans startup and enterprise tech companies (Priceline, SAP-Ariba), as well as Financial Services (JP Morgan, BlackRock) and recently Health Tech. She has played leadership roles through corporate crises, acquisitions and divestitures as well as business growth and transformations. Over the course of her career, her roles continually increased in scope and responsibility. She’s built and led teams across Information Security, Tech Risk, Procurement, Financial Planning and Analysis and Consulting. She attributes her success to having quickly figured out how to navigate each management operating system and understanding what was necessary to be successful.
Yass Partners has quickly become the trusted partner for many enterprise and high impact CISOs and Security Programs. Yael is a contributor to the World Economic Forum’s 2022 Global Cyber Outlook and is a frequent guest speaker to leadership circles and various industry roundtables. She is actively engaged in various Security & Women Executive Networks and is an investor and advisor to a variety of technology and cybersecurity start-up companies.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Yael Nagler’s career trajectory
What Yael learned from early supportive bosses
What the acronym DEAL stands for
How Enron taught Yael how to handle crises effectively
What situational awareness is and how it plays into hiring
Key components of cybersecurity
How important cybersecurity is in 2022
How to assess your risk threshold and what to expect from your board
In this episode….
Yael Nagler was born internationally but grew up in the United States and graduated from Cornell University where she studied hotel management. After graduating she started working at Priceline and from that beginning, she entered a 20+ year career spanning startup and enterprise tech companies as well as financial services. The breadth of her experience and ability to understand what clients and employers alike need while navigating corporate culture have led her to wonderful success.
Currently head of Yass Partners, Yael is a cybersecurity leader with solid advice for all CEOs and corporate executives. She has a keen insight into what strengths led her through her career journey and how to develop situational awareness in every workplace. She and Martin discuss the experience and understanding that each company and challenge offered her as well as how she effectively communicates her knowledge to the benefit those working with her.
In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and Yael Nagler link situational awareness to cybersecurity and explore how understanding the fears, needs, and motivators for employees and clients alike assists in defining risk and mitigating it. Yael explains three key components in developing effective cybersecurity strategy and breaks down the reasons behind the need in a simple but memorable analogy.
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