While these technical skills are certainly important, we're also now looking more holistically at candidates to test their abilities to think critically and creatively as well as uncover new solutions. As we face new and unprecedented challenges in cyber protection, it's critical that cyber leaders hire team members who think outside-the-box, have intellectual curiosity, employ bold thinking, and are natural problem solvers. Protecting an organization against advanced cyber threats requires innovative thinking and techniques; people, process and technology capabilities are needed to properly defend ourselves against sophisticated attackers, such as nation states. Cyber threats will continue to evolve, as will the new techniques described above to enable cyber resiliency. Ariel Weintraub is currently the Head of Enterprise Cyber Security at MassMutual. Ariel first joined MassMutual in the fall of 2019 as the Head of Security Operations & Engineering, responsible for the Global Security Operations Center, Security Engineering, Security Intelligence, and Identity & Access Management. Prior to joining MassMutual, Ariel served as Senior Director of Data & Access Security within Cybersecurity Operations at TIAA where she led a three-year business transformation program to position IAM as a digital business enabler. Prior to TIAA, Ariel held the position of Global Head of Vulnerability Management at BNY Mellon and was part of the Threat & Vulnerability Management practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Essential Skills/ Characteristics: • Highly skilled with SQL and writing queries • Expert in data management principles and data normalization • Must be able to recognize patterns in data and remove "noise" from "insights" • Experience in developing reports and charts to depict "data story" • Exceptional excel and pivot table mastery • Exposure to data modeling and understanding of predictive analysis • Ability to propose improvements to existing system/data base/data structures • Keen ability to articulate data concepts in lamens • Ability to collaborate with remote teams • Extensive experience with data analysis • Experience with ETL tools Winning Ways • Focus on the Customer: Know your customers well; add value with a sense of urgency.

MassMutual, a $30 billion per year life insurance company, had a problem. It was 2013 and, along with the rest of the insurance industry, it was bedeviled by fraud. According to FBI estimates, fraud sets the U.S. insurance industry (and policyholders) back by $40 billion a year. "We had to get much better at detecting fraud in real time," says Sears Merritt, MassMutual's chief of technology strategy and data science. So MassMutual launched an innovative collaboration between the company's data scientists and its line managers.

One of the most frequently-used phrases at business events these days is "the future of work." It's increasingly clear that artificial intelligence and other new technologies will bring substantial changes in work tasks and business processes. But while these changes are predicted for the future, they're already present in many organizations for many different jobs. The situation brings to mind the William Gibson comment, "The future is already here--it's just not evenly distributed." The job and incumbent described below is an example of this phenomenon.

Online life insurance agency Haven Life announced an upgrade to its service earlier this week that could let you buy a life insurance policy in just a few minutes after answering about 30 questions -- possibly with no medical checkup. That speed of underwriting is made possible by artificial intelligence the two-year-old company has built into its offering. The company is one example of a new breed of fast-moving businesses built atop AI. It's difficult to get a good idea of the types of machine learning these companies are building into their products, as they're giving very little away at this stage. But they're constantly iterating: testing out new machine-run decision-making processes and then migrating the next part of their business over to those systems once they prove secure.