In this episode, host Raghu Nandakumara sits down with Thomas Mueller-Lynch, Global Director Digital Identities at Siemens to explore Siemens' ambitious zero trust program. They delve into the challenges of implementation and the strategic benefits of zero trust in bolstering product security and streamlining IT architecture. Thomas highlights the essential role of identity management and the importance of collaboration between IT, cybersecurity, and business units in advancing zero trust effectively.

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"You cannot run a Zero Trust program exclusively out of IT. You cannot run it exclusively out of cybersecurity. And also if the business, or at least our organization, which is quite big and lots of different business units, if everybody of these business units starts by their own something, it will also not work. It will only work as teamwork all together. So IT typically brings in the services and the service operational model. Cybersecurity brings in the rules and partly also kind of architecture, as well as IT by the way, and business obviously owns all of these assets. So if you don't have them on the same table, at the same table it won't work at all."

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Time Stamps 

*(03:56) Thomas' journey at Siemens

*(08:59) Challenges in Zero Trust implementation

*(16:08) Business benefits of Zero Trust

*(27:32) Balancing big vision with tactical steps

*(34:06) Identity's role in Zero Trust

*(43:10) Collaborating across IT, security, and business for zero trust success

*(44:59) How Zero Trust drives competitive advantage

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Links

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