Fireside Chat With Phil Venables, CISO at Google Cloud

About this episode

Phil Venables discusses his role as CISO at Google Cloud and his previous experience at Goldman Sachs.

In this fireside chat, we speak with Phil Venables, Chief Information Security Officer of Google Cloud. Venables leads the risk, security, compliance, and privacy teams for Google Cloud. Before joining Google, he was a Partner at Goldman Sachs where he held multiple roles over a long career, initially as their first Chief Information Security Officer, a role he held for 17 years. (Session recorded at SecurityWeek's 2024 Cloud & Data Security Summit) Follow SecurityWeek on LinkedIn

People in this episode

Guest: Phil Venables

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• cloud security
• information security
• risk management
• compliance
• privacy

Keywords

• Phil Venables
• Google Cloud
• CISO
• cybersecurity
• risk
• compliance
• privacy

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Organizations: Google Cloud, Goldman Sachs

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