Trust Talks with Thomas Owen, CISO at Grafana

Sravish sits down with Thomas Owen to discuss the latest security and GRC trends.

Here’s what they discuss:
🔍 Thomas’s personal values of transparency and accountability
🔒 The strategy of "first security, then compliance"
📊 Thomas’s approach to sharing metrics with the Board
🤝 Why Thomas and Sravish are big advocates for Kolide

Chapters:

0:43 How have you made GRC more accessible, transparent, and accountable at Grafana Labs?

2:24 How do you translate security and privacy and compliance requirements into product requirements?

3:52 How does GRC at Grafana support the revenue function?

06:27 What metrics should CISO’s share with their Boards to educate them on the business impact of their security, compliance, and privacy programs?

9:30 Will CISO’s ever discuss contractual assurance and how their security and privacy programs align with contractual commitments to the Board?

10:39 Which security and privacy vendors do you admire for promoting transparency, trust, and accountability to improve organizational commitment to trust?

15:38 Who are some security leaders or privacy leaders or CISOs who have inspired you?

18:38 Who are trust champions that you’ve worked with?

21:46 What do you think we’ll be doing differently in security and compliance 3 to 5 years from now?

Stay tuned for more!

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