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Episode 891

Cybersecurity and Risk Management: Western Digital CIO Sesh Tirumala’s Strategy on People, Process, and Technology for Cyber Threat Readiness

July 22, 2024
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Sesh Tirumala

Chief Information Officer of Western Digital
Sesh Tirumala is the Chief Information Officer at Western Digital, a global leader in data storage solutions. With a career spanning roles at PagerDuty, Anaplan, and Cisco, Sesh brings extensive experience in IT leadership, digital transformation, and cybersecurity. At Western Digital, he focuses on driving IT transformation, enhancing cybersecurity measures, and improving employee experience.

Episode Overview

891: Proper cybersecurity practices within a company involve a shared responsibility across the entire enterprise, not just the IT organization, requiring a unified approach that encompasses people, processes, and technology. In this episode of Technovation, Peter High interviews Sesh Tirumala, Chief Information Officer of Western Digital, to discuss the company’s focus on cybersecurity, employee experience, and engineering excellence. Sesh details his experience handling a major cyber incident at Western Digital and the framework he applied to identify vulnerabilities and establish guardrails to mitigate future cyber incidents. He also talks about his approach to improving operational and engineering excellence at the company and explains the importance of culture in IT. Furthermore, he reflects on his journey across various scaled and fast-growing technology companies and shares the future trends in technology that excite him, such as generative AI and digital twins in manufacturing.

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