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Deepen Desai: A doctor in computer viruses. [CISO] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Tech News, News, Daily News, Technology

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Deepen Desai, Global Chief Information Security Officer at Zscaler, shares his story as a doctor that treats computer viruses. He describes how he got into the security field and his work with Zscaler. He says what it's like learning and growing in this field and shares great advice for people who are up and coming in the field. Deepen describes working with an incredible team and how much joy it brings him to see his team learning and growing beyond their roles working with him. He says he want's to be remembered as a mentor among his colleagues. He says "I still remember my first team that I built, 15 years ago. Most of those guys are leading key technologies at many of the major security vendors, and some of them are still with me." We thank Deepen for sharing his story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:11.4

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1:16.6

Hello, my name is Deepen the Sai, and I am the Global CISO at ZSkler.

1:31.0

So, and I am the global CSO at Z-Scalar. So growing up, I mean, I come from a family.

1:34.8

It's full of doctors.

1:36.9

They're all in the field of medicine.

1:39.4

So that was an area that intrigued me.

1:41.3

But at the same time, I was very fascinated by computers and,

1:46.3

you know, developing newer programs, software, development. That was the area of interest

1:53.0

for me when I was growing up. It was really interesting the way I ended up in the field of

1:59.6

cybersecurity. This is more than 20 years ago.

2:02.6

I was introduced to an online game where there were folks literally cheating,

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