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“ A key focus area for us in 2023 will be to drive the adoption of Infrastructure-as-code across the Enterprise for increased agility and standardised compute deployments ”
drive the business towards a cloud-native approach . Cybersecurity moved to front and centre . “ If I look back three to four years ,” says Vanja Vlaski , “ this was not a professionally run department ; today , it is a 24 / 7 operation .”
That was before the arrival of Paul Carugati and the setting up of a dedicated organisation . “ Prior to my time here , there were certainly areas of competency on information security within the business , but they were extremely decentralised ; nothing formal was in place . As a result , the organisation started seeing more incidents that were impacting operations negatively .”
So , how did Syngenta – with the collaboration of Vlaski , Carugati and the rest of the team – link these decentralised strands ? “ We centralised the function , working directly under the CEO and CIO to establish a central and global information security organisation ,” explains Carugati .
“ From there , we aligned standards and the best practices defined for enterprise risk management – including ISO 27001 , NIST 800.53 , and , more recently , the NIST CSF ( cybersecurity framework ), which are needed to understand the appropriate capabilities for the purpose of organising teams and building responsibility for information security in a growing enterprise .
“ One of the first things we did was to implement a formal risk management and treatment framework . We had to create that from scratch , as well as a team to govern it . In the process , we established
EXECUTIVE BIO
SUBU IYER GLOBAL HEAD OF CLOUD SERVICES AND IT INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION , SYNGENTA
VANJA VLASKI TITLE : GLOBAL HEAD OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND CYBERSECURITY
LOCATION : GREATER CHICAGO AREA
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