Ben Smith

In this advice-packed episode of CISO Confidential, Ben Smith, SVP CISO of telecoms provider Optimum, tells host Saket Modi about lessons learned during the challenge of a career: reacting to the onset of COVID as CISO at a hospital organization. Running risk assessment on the fly, Ben ordered seven “networks in a box” and set up six war rooms specific to different risks. Understanding risk in all its complexity “is what makes you a good CISO in the long run,” he says.