Empowering People to Be Security Champions with Alvina Antar, CIO at Okta

This episode features an interview with Alvina Antar, CIO at Okta. Alvina leads the Business Technology Organization and is responsible for enabling a smooth customer and employee experience. Prior to joining Okta, she spent 17 years at Dell and served as Zuora’s first ever CIO.

In this episode, Mike and Alvina discuss identity-first security, automating business processes through AI and ML, and leading by example to achieve a more diverse industry.

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“For the longest time we've heard how there's a ton of friction between the CIO and CISO and IT and security teams. Where the security organization is developing strategies and IT hears about it and has to somehow deliver and execute against that strategy without any input around the decisions or choices that are made. And in reality, in order for us to be successful, we really need to operate as one team. And that's exactly what we're doing here. The only way we can really build a security-first culture is if we operate as one team. And not only just between IT and security, it's really building security champions across every part of the business. Every single employee should feel accountable for hardening our security posture.” – Alvina Antar

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Episode Timestamps:

*(02:37): Alvina’s journey to becoming a CIO 

*(05:01): How Okta uses Okta 

*(10:38): How Alvina thinks of her role in the current environment

*(18:17): Alvina’s take on security as a team sport

*(22:22): Alvina’s advice for speaking to the board about security

*(26:29): How Alvina is building a human firewall

*(30:31): 2030 Goggles

*(33:10): How we can get more diversity in security

*(35:29): Quick Hits

*(38:09): Mike’s takeaways from his conversation with Alvina

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Links:

Connect with Alvina on LinkedIn

Connect with Mike Anderson LinkedIn

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