
Brian Blakely
Chief Information Security Officer at Bellini Capital; cybersecurity executive with 30+ years of experience in information security, data privacy, and compliance.
1
APPEARANCES
1
PODCASTS
012
DEC 30
JAN 6
JAN 13
JAN 20
JAN 27
FEB 3
FEB 10
FEB 17
FEB 24
MAR 3
MAR 10
MAR 17
MAR 24
MAR 31
APR 7
APR 14
APR 21
APR 28
MAY 5
MAY 12
MAY 19
MAY 26
JUN 2
JUN 9
JUN 16
JUN 23
JUN 30
JUL 7
JUL 14
JUL 21
JUL 28
AUG 4
AUG 11
AUG 18
AUG 25
SEP 1
SEP 8
SEP 15
SEP 22
SEP 29
OCT 6
OCT 13
OCT 20
OCT 27
NOV 3
NOV 10
NOV 17
NOV 24
DEC 1
DEC 8
DEC 15
DEC 22
DEC 29
JAN 5
JAN 12
JAN 19
JAN 26
FEB 2
FEB 9
FEB 16
FEB 23
MAR 2
MAR 9
MAR 16
MAR 23
MAR 30
APR 6
APR 13
APR 20
APR 27
MAY 4
MAY 11
MAY 18
MAY 25
JUN 1
JUN 8
JUN 15
JUN 22
JUN 29
JUL 6
JUL 13
JUL 20
JUL 27
AUG 3
AUG 10
AUG 17
AUG 24
AUG 31
SEP 7
SEP 14
SEP 21
Jun 30, 2026
InformationWeek Podcast: Dealing with strategic tech rejections
8:52
9:00
9:07
9:13
9:23
9:58
15:19

Pierre DeBoisGUEST
And yes, again, another way of how you're framing the project as a win-win for everyone that's involved.

Brian BlakelyGUEST
Yeah, Pierre, you hit the nail on the head with layer eight, right? Everybody thinks there's seven layers in the OSI model.

Brian BlakelyGUEST
Layer eight is the politics, right? And personalities that we have to deal with and the leadership level.

Brian BlakelyGUEST
And JP, the CEO might be the final decision maker sometimes, but they're rarely, to Pierre's point, the only person who decides whether a proposal will move forward.

Brian BlakelyGUEST
the key stakeholders are the people either from my experience control the money absorb the operational impact uh own some of the legal exposure or depend on the outcome that we're talking about so first i'd say the cfo matters a lot or whoever that money decision maker is not because every conversation is about dollars or costs but because every proposal is a capital allocation decision The CFO is asking, what does this protect and what's it cost and what's the trade-off? Then like Pierre said, the others involved, the COO or operational type of leaders are critical too.

Brian BlakelyGUEST
They want to know whether this proposal is going to create friction for them, slow down delivery, mess up a workflow.
5 MINS LATER

Joao-Pierre RuthHOST
Brian, have you ever had to kind of like rein in some ideas as a CISO that might be coming from others when they're trying to present alternative tech strategy plans and you just kind of like bring your wait a minute, hang on, you know, here's what we need to actually think about before doing these things?