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About this session
Alain Sanchez, EMEA CISO in Fortinet's Office of the CISO, gives a practitioner-framed keynote on where cybersecurity is heading. He opens with a financial-sustainability argument for choosing a long-term vendor, then argues that security must become a holistic, natively integrated "fabric" or mesh rather than best-of-breed boxes glued together, since bought-together integration is now too slow and expensive. He identifies three new burdens reshaping the CISO role: compliance reporting, corporate social responsibility and sustainability commitments, and the human-talent shortage, noting 35 percent attrition among SOC and NOC staff doing manual correlation work. He gives concrete workforce advice: upskill internal staff rather than always hiring externally, recruit for science and math backgrounds, lead conversations with threat intelligence, and ask peers and vendors for help rather than reinventing integrations alone. He closes on OT/IT convergence, citing water utility, transportation and oil-and-gas examples, and urges CISOs to let operational strategic imperatives, not vendor roadmaps, drive purchasing decisions.
Key takeaways
- Evaluate vendors' financial sustainability (revenue growth plus margin) before betting a security architecture on them long term.
- Move away from best-of-breed point products toward a natively integrated security platform; manual, after-the-fact integration is too slow to keep pace with threats.
- Automate correlation across telemetry sources so analysts stop doing manual log correlation, a leading cause of the 35 percent attrition seen in SOC and NOC teams.
- When recruiting, prioritize science and math backgrounds and upskill existing network staff into cybersecurity roles instead of always hiring externally.
- Anchor every budget or technology request in your organization's operational strategic imperatives, not a vendor's product roadmap.
Speakers
Alain Sanchez
Alain Sanchez a plus de vingt ans d’expérience dans le domaine des réseaux et des télécommunications. Alain a rejoint le bureau du CISO de Fortinet pour la région de l’Europe, du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique, après avoir occupé des fonctions de… Read moreRead less
Alain Sanchez a plus de vingt ans d’expérience dans le domaine des réseaux et des télécommunications. Alain a rejoint le bureau du CISO de Fortinet pour la région de l’Europe, du Moyen-Orient et de l’Afrique, après avoir occupé des fonctions de direction au sein d’Accenture, de Huawei, d’Alcatel-Lucent, de BT Global Services et de Nortel, où il a conseillé les dirigeants d’entreprises et d’opérateurs de premier plan engagés dans leur transformation numérique.
En qualité de EMEA Field CISO de Fortinet, son rôle lui permet d’appréhender les grandes évolutions des solutions de cybersécurité, les meilleures pratiques de mises en œuvre et les approches pragmatiques qui permettent de faire de notre monde hyperconnecté un endroit plus sûr.
Alain est ingénieur diplômé de l’Université de Technologie de Compiègne complété d’un Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies en Analyse des Procédés Industriels.
