Leading from the Attacker’s Perspective: Moral Courage, Muscle Memory & AI-Driven Cyber Resilience with Snehal Antani, CEO at Horizon3.ai
In this episode of CXO Secrets, David McClelland sits down with Snehal Antani, CEO of Horizon3.ai, to explore leadership, resilience, and cybersecurity through the attacker’s lens. Drawing on his journey from CIO and CTO roles at GE Capital and Splunk to serving with U.S. Special Operations, Snehal shares why modern cyber resilience is built as much on mindset, cadence, and muscle memory as it is on technology. The conversation dives into leading under pressure, building high-performing teams for hostile environments, and how AI is reshaping both offensive and defensive cybersecurity. Snehal offers practical insights on training like you fight, reducing attacker dwell time, influencing at board level, and why CXOs now have a clear “duty to know” when it comes to cyber risk. A must-listen for CIOs, CISOs, and senior leaders looking to strengthen cyber resilience by adopting the attacker’s perspective and preparing their organisations for an AI-driven threat landscape.
Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai helps organizations eliminate attack paths before attackers can exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZero® platform, empowers you to continuously find, fix, and verify your exploitable attack surface with autonomous pentesting and other security operations.