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The New CISO Podcast with guest Grant Lockwood

  • Jul 25, 2024
  • 1 minute to read

Episode 116

In this episode of The New CISO, Steve is joined by guest Grant Lockwood, Chief Information Security Office of Virtus Health.

In this episode of The New CISO, Steve is again joined by guest Grant Lockwood, Comedian, DJ, and the Chief Information Security Officer at Virtus Health. Today, Grant returns to explain how his approach to effective communication has evolved since becoming a security leader. Listen to the episode to learn the difference between safety and security, how stand-up comedy gave Grant an efficient framework for his CISO role, and the importance of having balance outside of work through hobbies.

Listen to Steve and Grant discuss how to maintain confidence in work and life and how to optimize your message to make the best first impression.

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Grant Lockwood

Grant Lockwood is Virtus Health’s Chief Information Security Officer. His 20-plus year IT/security career has taken him full-stack from the server room to the boardroom across education, managed services, high performance sports and healthcare. He shares his experience at the pointy end of healthcare cybersecurity with a range of organisations, helping them to improve their resiliency and cyber confidence. His hobbies include writing comedy, music production, and typing Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1 into every freetext webform he can find.

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