Cloud CISO Perspectives: Phil Venables on CISO 2.0 and the CISO factory
Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2025. Today, Phil Venables, Google Cloud’s current strategic security advisor and former CISO, and creator of this newsletter, shares his thoughts on how the role of the CISO is evolving in the AI era, and how organizations should shift their cybersecurity approach from fire stations to flywheels. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents of this newsletter are posted to the Google Cloud blog. If you’re reading this on the website and you’d like to receive the email version, you can subscribe here. aside_block <ListValue: [StructValue([('title', 'Get vital board insights [...]