Hi, everyone, and welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Hannah, and in today's episode, we have our own Ben Horowitz, moderating a session with Octa C.O. Frederick Karras and Dominic Shine, who's the CIO of News Corp, plus Brad Peterson, who's the CIO of NASDAQ, on securing infrastructure from mobile to IoT and beyond.

This session was recorded as part of our inaugural A16Z summit.

All right.

So before we get into the real hardcore security stuff, let's talk a little business.

And Dom, news corps is an interesting position these days coming off of an election.

You're representing kind of one of the most important companies in traditional media.

How do you think about your role technologically in moving News Corp forward?

Wow, what a question.

You might have picked it already. I'm British, so I can probably take the fifth on this one.

Yeah, it's an interesting time. Obviously, nothing going on in politics here or in Europe either.

From a technology point of view, what we find is more than ever, the journalists are out and about, they're mobile.

They need access to systems anytime, anywhere. So I see my

role is to enable that workforce to have the easiest time possible in a very pressurized

environment to create that content, to distribute that content, whilst giving them good security

controls that don't make their lives too difficult.

And short follow-up on that, or maybe not so short.

The other thing that happened in this election was apparently the Russians got involved.

Were you concerned that a foreign entity or someone might actually hack the Wall Street Journal

and try and change the news, you know,

at the exact wrong time.

So I think we're always vigilant to that sort of risk.

I think our concerns were more that we might have a repeat of the denial of service attacks

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