Scaling Security Without Friction | Cezary Piekarski, Group CISO, Standard Chartered

27/10/2025 31 min
Scaling Security Without Friction | Cezary Piekarski, Group CISO, Standard Chartered

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Cezary Piekarski, Group CISO at Standard Chartered, joins us to share hard-earned wisdom from 25+ years securing financial institutions globally. In this episode of the Be Fearless podcast, Cezary shares how Standard Chartered scales security without becoming a bottleneck, draws fascinating parallels between today's AI security challenges and buffer overflow attacks and why curiosity is the hallmark of all great CISOs.0:00 Scaling security without bottlenecks7:19 How the browser (and browser security) has evolved14:13 AI security parallels to buffer overflow attacks of the past16:16 Outsourcing accountability to users doesn’t work20:56 Why crisis communication must take outside events into account28:49 Closing and how “security is a study of failure”🔔 Follow Cezary and Audrey on:https://www.linkedin.com/in/cpiekarski/https://www.linkedin.com/in/audrey-adeline/🔥 Powered by SquareXDeployed as a lightweight extension, SquareX turns any browser, on any device, into a secure enterprise browser. Find out more about SquareX at https://hubs.la/Q03rPcbf0

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