Said Abnormal's director of product and design: “Everyone here should be the CEO of the product that they are responsible for,” Jiang said. “They should be the visionary for how we choose to innovate our solutions that will bring maximum value

Said the founder of Sphere: "“We learned very early on that you have to play ball with market-leading products; you have to make sure that you can add value to those technologies while solving a unique problem yourself.”

Said the adviser for Safe Security and advisory board member of Code 42: "At the end of the day, you can be the smartest cybersecurity person in the room, but if you don't care about it, you're not going to do your best job."

Because of the work of JP Morgan Chase VP Marpu, "end users are able to seamlessly interact with digital touchpoints without thinking twice about the security of their data."

Said Honeywell's cybersecurity engineer and architect: “I always have to prove how good I am when I go to a new place."

Said the cyberspace operations principal at SAIC: "Operators have information overload, which leads to decision paralysis. If I'm going to deliver a tool or a data feed or visualization to an end user, I'm going to deliver what they need to see. We’re reducing noise.”

Unafraid to be criticized, the languages and literature major worked her way from the Defense Department to chief information security officer of Finance of American. "“I don’t want to be a human being who can’t be told they can do any number of things better, and I expect the same from those I hire. Let’s talk about where we can all improve together.”

“For an industry that builds client relationships and growth on partnership and trust with its customers, we're also an industry that sells zero trust, as a goal. So those two things can be very dichotomous in concept,” said the chief information security officer for the cloud services of NTT.