Evan McHenry is a Vice President and the Chief Information Security Officer at Robinhood Markets, where he leads Security and Corporate Engineering, ensuring secure and scalable operations. Formerly Deputy CISO, he drove key security initiatives and aligned Robinhood’s IT infrastructure with rapid growth. With over 20 years in security and IT, Evan has a proven track record in regulated industries. His healthcare work at Aetna and Beebe Healthcare focused on identity management, infrastructure, and HITRUST. At Google, he held leadership roles in Corporate Engineering, where he was instrumental in securing its COVID-19 response and Future of Work initiatives.
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- Security spending is growing — except for the typical CISO
Security budgets may be growing on paper, but for a majority of CISOs, the money isn’t moving in quite the same direction.
- CISOs Race to Control AI Agents Without Destroying Their Value
Security leaders are struggling to modernize cyber hygiene and prevent over-privileged agents from causing unintended harm.
- Your Next CISO Could Be Artificial Intelligence
An AI CISO could continuously review security alerts, monitor user permissions, identify accounts without multifactor authentication, detect unusual access patterns, prioritize vulnerabilities, review cloud configurations, track compliance requirements, and prepare security reports for management.
- What Leaders Need to Know About AI and Psychological Safety
AI’s perceived neutrality plays a role in reshaping how psychological safety is experienced in organizations. When employees use AI to surface concerns they don’t feel safe raising directly, they are sending signals about the culture. Four patterns reveal how AI interacts with psychological safety. How leaders respond to so-called safety by proxy has significant ramifications for how employees voice concerns and how your organization can respond.
- The Leadership Test You Don’t Know You’re Taking
The sooner you identify the leadership test you're really taking, the sooner you'll stop preparing for yesterday's promotion and start preparing for tomorrow's responsibilities.
- The Cyber Gap
China has built a sophisticated hacking apparatus to gain leverage in peacetime and wreak havoc during conflict. Currently, the United States lacks the defenses or the credible deterrent to combat that threat. CFR experts Matthew Ferren, Adam Segal and Rush Doshi argue that it needs to build shared visibility into Chinese campaigns, impose costs on Chinese operations, enhance network resilience, and rebuild federal capacity.