Aaron Zollman
Aaron Zollman is Vice President and Deputy CISO for Gaming at Microsoft, a role he has held since July 2025. He is responsible for security across Microsoft's Gaming Studios and Platforms, protecting gamer communities, intellectual property, and live operations while meeting the standards of Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative. He is also a co-founder and organizer of fwd:cloudsec, a non-profit cloud security conference series. Prior to Microsoft, he served as CISO and VP of Platform Engineering at the health-tech company Cedar.
“"When Microsoft Scout, which was sort of our open law for the enterprise, was initially released to internal use. The adoption curve was like phenomenal, right? Yeah. It was really fun, really validating as a security person."”
Source→“"Peter Steinberg, the founder of OpenClaw, is on stage at Microsoft Build with us a few months later talking about how we're bringing security to the process."”
Source→“I remember at the beginning of my career there was a relatively well-known CISO who would joke that he could say no in 80 languages. And it was sort of like my superpower is saying no even when everyone's telling me to say yes... you fast forward to now and it seems like the CISO is becoming an enabler.”
Source→“Everyone's cheating on their evals. Here's how and here's how I know... the flags for some of these are in model releases without any tools going… So, yeah. So there's a lot of ways to improve it.”
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