Rob Sloan is vice president, cybersecurity advocacy, for Zscalera. He is a cybersecurity, risk, and technology expert with broad business skills and management responsibility. Prior to joining Zscaler, he served as research director at Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, where he led a research team focused on cybersecurity, AI, and sustainability issues, and wrote a weekly column to help board directors navigate cyber-risk. Before the WSJ, Rob worked as response director for a specialist IT security consultancy in London and built a team focused on detecting, investigating, and protecting against cyber intrusions and responding to incidents, especially state-sponsored attacks. Rob began his career working for the UK government in defense and foreign affairs, looking at some of the earliest state sponsored cyberattacks against the government, military, and critical national infrastructure networks.