CISO Help Hotline – Advice from the next generation of CISOs about building a strong security culture

Ester Pinto

CISO at anecdotes

Esther Pinto is the CISO at anecdotes. She has over a decade of experience in the field, beginning with her six years of service in the Israeli Air Force Information Security Division. Following her military career, Esther worked as an Information Security Consultant for several prominent companies before joining AppsFlyer, where she played an instrumental role in establishing the company’s security team. In addition to her professional achievements, Esther is also an experienced speaker and mentor, sharing her knowledge and insights with others in the industry.

George Gerchow

Chief Security Officer and SVP of IT at Sumo Logic

As Sumo Logic’s CSO and SVP of IT, George Gerchow brings over 20 years of information technology and systems management expertise to the application of IT processes and disciplines. His background includes the security, compliance, and cloud computing disciplines. Mr. Gerchow has years of practical experience in building agile security, compliance and, IT teams in rapid development organizations. These insights make him a highly regarded speaker, and invited panelist on topics including, cloud secure architecture design, compliance and operational security. George has been on the bleeding edge of public cloud security, privacy and modernizing IT systems since being a co-founder of the VMware Center for Policy & Compliance. He is a Faculty Member for IANS – Institute of Applied Network Security and sits on several industry advisory boards. Mr. Gerchow is also a known philanthropist and CEO of a nonprofit corporation, XFoundation.

Dao Tran

Global Alliances Director at SoSafe

Dao is the host of the CISO Help Hotline Web Series and the Global Alliances Director at SoSafe. He’s passionate about the human side of cybersecurity and breaking it down into easy to understand concepts. Currently he’s on a mission to bring people and technology together to help organizations secure their most important layer of defense, the human.