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Is Security Funny? What Hobbies Can Teach a CISO

The New CISO Podcast with guest Grant Lockwood

  • Jul 04, 2024
  • 1 minute to read

Episode 115

In this episode of The New CISO, Steve is joined by guest Grant Lockwood, Chief Information Security Officer at Virtus Health.

After starting his career in an administrative position, Grant found himself getting bored. After being urged by his wife, Grant turned things around and is now a DJ, comedian, and, of course, a successful CISO. Listen to the episode to learn more about Grant’s impressive career journey, how to make your content compelling, and the transferable skills from performing comedy.

Listen to Steve and Grant discuss how hobbies can make you a better security leader and the importance of adapting to your surroundings.

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Grant Lockwood

Grant Lockwood is Virtus Health’s Chief Information Security Officer. His 20-plus year IT/security career has taken him full-stack from the server room to the boardroom across education, managed services, high performance sports and healthcare. He shares his experience at the pointy end of healthcare cybersecurity with a range of organisations, helping them to improve their resiliency and cyber confidence. His hobbies include writing comedy, music production, and typing Invoke-Mimikatz.ps1 into every freetext webform he can find.

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