Mohit Tiwari is now the CEO and co-founder of Symmetry Systems. Before Symmetry, Tiwari was a cybersecurity professor at University of Texas, Austin where his lab was funded by DARPA and National Science Foundation, collaborating with teams at General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Intel, ARM, Google, and others. His work on high-assurance systems has received multiple industry and scientific awards for applied cybersecurity research, was transitioned to production by a startup (TortugaLogic) and large companies, and ultimately led to Symmetry Systems via pilots with cloud-providers and hospitals.
Here, we talk to Tiwari about the current threat landscape, the role of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and the unique challenges COVID-19 and work-from-home (WFH) pose to CISOs.