No two days look the same for a CISO, and the carefully planned calendar is really just a suggestion. From internal audit battles and team overload to vendor standoffs, high-stakes incidents and regulators who move faster than global headquarters can respond, the role demands equal parts technical depth, diplomatic finesse and stress absorption.

In this session, Shobha Jagathpal, managing director - India CISO, Morgan Stanley, will share insights on:

• Why the defined CISO role and the actual one are rarely the same, and how to lead through internal audit misalignments, vendor risk negotiations and stakeholder expectations when everyone has a different definition of urgent;
• How to manage team resilience, incident pressure and global-versus-local regulatory tensions without losing alignment, and how to read the early signals that alignment is slipping before it becomes a decision;
• What it truly means to be a business enabler in 2026 - influencing without authority, owning incidents beyond your perimeter and narrating risk in a way that lands like music in the boardroom.