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Leigh McMullen
Distinguished VP Analyst
Gartner
Speaker Topics
- AI in Cybersecurity
- Executive Communication and Metrics
- Vision, Strategy and Operating Model
- Organizational Resilience
- Partnering Across the Business
- Personal Effectiveness
Speaker Bio
Leigh C. McMullen is a Distinguished Vice President, Analyst and Gartner Fellow in Gartner's CISO, Security & Risk Management team. Mr. McMullen leverages his experience as both a line-of-business manager and IT leader to provide CISOs with insight on navigating and making a difference within the C-suite.
Additionally, he provides clients with a holistic view of Cybersecurity leadership research, specializing on the topics of Future operating models, Vision & Strategy, politics, influence, business engagement, internal marketing & communications.
Mr. McMullen's Fellows work examines business operating models which are designed to change and adapt rather than just scale.
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Additionally, he provides clients with a holistic view of Cybersecurity leadership research, specializing on the topics of Future operating models, Vision & Strategy, politics, influence, business engagement, internal marketing & communications.
Mr. McMullen's Fellows work examines business operating models which are designed to change and adapt rather than just scale.
Sessions
Monday, June 09, 2025 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM EDT
Gartner Opening Keynote: Harness the Hype: Turning Disruption Into Cybersecurity Opportunity
Leigh McMullen,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Katell Thielemann,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Our organizations understand they can’t ignore cybersecurity. In our turbulent environment, the extremes of unbridled technology optimism and excessive preoccupation with risk endanger us. Hype, whether driven by AI, emerging technologies, geopolitical changes or latest headline-grabbing cyber attack, threatens to derail strategic objectives and the partnership between cybersecurity and the rest of the business. This keynote will help exploit hype's power to drive your cybersecurity program and the resilience of your organization.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
CISO Circle: Leadership Exchange: How to Explain Cybersecurity to Anyone
Leigh McMullen,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Explaining your cybersecurity program and strategy are critical to execution. If you can't explain to the board, they won't fund your program. If you can't explain what's important to people in times of crisis they will focus on the wrong things. Our goal is to make cybersecurity decisions as intuitive as any other business decision.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
CISO’s Outlook for Cybersecurity and AI: Building AI Resilience (Repeat)
Leigh McMullen,
Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Predicting AI's impact on cybersecurity remains fluid, with some threats accelerating and others failing to materialize with the strength and impact we'd expected. In this session, we'll look at offensive and defensive use cases for generative AI spanning three-time horizons — near, far and uncertain and ambiguous. We'll share where we have consensus and where we're still debating, what is interesting and has caught our eye, as well as the dark cases we're eyeing on.
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