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With the growth of business-led IT, does SaaS security need to be a specific focus in a CISO’s architectural strategy? Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap), CISO, LinkedIn. Our guest is Steve Zalewski who also hosts Defense in Depth.

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