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Cyber and Business Resilience Hinges on CIO-CISO Partnership 

CIO and CISO of John Keells Holdings, Sri Lanka, on Making Resilience a Common Agenda
Ramesh Shanmuganathan, group CIO, and Sujit Christy, CISO, John Keells Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka

Collaboration between the CIO and CISO is crucial in building robust cyber and business resilience. When CIOs and CISOs appreciate and acknowledge each other's strengths and responsibilities, they can work together more effectively to establish resiliency.

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According to Dr. Ramesh Shanmuganathan, executive VP and group CIO at John Keells Holdings PLC in Sri Lanka, siloed business, technology and security functions are a major roadblock to achieving business resilience. He believes that lack of open and transparent conversations between these functions shifts the emphasis from proactive strategies to reactive measures. "Business resilience requires resiliency across technology platforms and security," Shanmuganathan says.

Sujit Christy, the group's CISO, emphasizes the significance of a collaborative approach between the CIO and CISO in combating their common adversary - cyberthreats. "It should not be CIO vs. CISO but both versus the cyber adversary," Christy says.

In this video interview with Information Security Media Group at ISMG's DynamicCISO Excellence Awards and Conference, Dr. Shanmuganathan and Christy discuss:

  • Dynamics of their relationship as CIO and CISO;
  • Roadblocks in business resilience initiatives;
  • Why collaborative defense is critical to developing cyber resilience.

Dr. Shanmuganathan has nearly three decades of experience working with organizations across the Americas, Australia and Asia. At John Keells Holdings, he is responsible for the group's IT consultancy and services organization along with its open innovation/startup incubator.

Christy has more than 25 years of experience in governance, risk, compliance and assurance. He currently serves as the CISO and cybersecurity adviser for several public and private sector organizations. Christy is also the president of (ISC)² Colombo Chapter, Sri Lanka.


About the Author

Shipra Malhotra

Shipra Malhotra

Managing Editor, ISMG

Malhotra has more than two decades of experience in technology journalism and public relations. She writes about enterprise technology and security-related issues and has worked at Biztech2.com, Dataquest and The Indian Express.




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