020 – What Makes a Successful Technologist, A Day in the Life of a Security Firm CISO, and Lessons from an Effective Phishing Engagement

In this episode of Agent of Influence, Nabil sits down with Roshan Popal, SVP of Cloud Operations and CISO at MicroStrategy. They discuss Roshan’s start in security, which includes getting caught hacking the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) at SUNY Buffalo, and share advice for emerging security professionals. They also discuss what it’s really like to be a CISO at a security firm and reminisce about an effective phishing campaign that fooled Nabil when the two worked together and highlight the key business learnings from the engagement.