BoC #27: Running the Security & Trust Team at a Late Stage Startup with Ty Sbano
Ty Sbano is the Chief Security & Trust Officer at Sisense, a business intelligence & data analytics unicorn headquartered in New York. Sisense was originally founded in Tel Aviv and has global offices in SF, Scottsdale, London, Melbourne, Tokyo, & Kiev. Ty has been in the security industry for 15 year and has a wide range of experience across many industries at companies like Lending Club, Capital One, and Target. Given this is Ty's first CISO gig, we spent the majority of our conversation exploring how he view's his role and how he's contributed meaningful business value to the rapidly growing business. During the interview, we dig into: How has Ty come to realize the human element of security is the most important part of managing security risk? How has he led through recent challenging circumstances like the California wildfires and COVID pandemic? How did he set proper expectations for his role going all the back to his interview process to ensure he'd be able to measure the business value he'd contributed?