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a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services

Frederic Kerrest, Brad Peterson, Dominic Shine, Ben Horowitz, Hannah, Dom, Freddie

News Corp, NASDAQ, and Okta leaders discuss strategic shifts toward mobile-first security and distributed ledger technologies to mitigate election-related cyber threats and modernize critical financial infrastructure. Executives prioritize resilience by enforcing rigorous vendor due diligence, investing in user behavior analytics, and transitioning from centralized mainframes to secure, permissioned blockchain environments. These organizations collectively reject single-vendor reliance in favor of best-of-breed portfolios that balance operational speed with robust defenses against supply chain attacks and state-level threats.