Join Microsoft leaders for an executive conversation on how Microsoft's Secure Future Initiative (SFI) is transforming culture and governance to make security a core priority across the company. Learn how leadership, accountability, and employee engagement are driving tangible improvements in our security posture, and how these lessons can be applied to elevate security practices in your organization.
Joy Chik
President, Identity & Network Access
Joy Chik leads Microsoft’s multi-billion-dollar Identity and Network Access security business. Her organization builds solutions to secure access to everything for everyone, which includes Identity Access Management Solutions (Microsoft Entra, formerly Azure AD), Microsoft Consumer Experience (Microsoft Account), and end user Network Access Services for the Microsoft Cloud. These services provide over 100B authentications every day around the world. Joy’s team is pioneering the digital Trust Fabric to secure access for every customer, partner, and employee—and for every microservice, sensor, network, device, and database. This includes championing digital verification technologies, known as Entra Verified ID, that protect individual privacy while securing information for businesses and consumers. Joy graduated summa cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science. In 1998 she joined Microsoft as a software engineer and has held multiple engineering and leadership roles across Microsoft. Joy is active in charities and has deep passion for supporting and helping women and girls pursuing technology careers.
Ann Johnson
Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Deputy CISO
Ann Johnson is Corporate Vice President and Deputy CISO at Microsoft. In this role, Ann drives all external engagement for the Microsoft Office of the CISO, and leads security risk management, standards, and governance for the company’s Sales and Partner organization. She is a long tenured, recognized thought leader on cybersecurity and a sought-after global speaker and digital author specializing in cyber resilience, online fraud, cyberattacks, compliance, and security.
Ann challenges traditional schools of thought and cyber-norms–from the way the tech industry tackles cyber threats to the language it uses to communicate–and encourages the industry to get outside its comfort zones and expand how it addresses the evolving threat landscape with the power of technology and people. As a global cybersecurity leader and strategist, she is looking ahead at how today’s cybersecurity investments will impact tomorrow’s cybersecurity reality.
Ann currently serves on the Board of Directors of Seattle Humane, N-Able, Human Security, Datavant, and is Member of the Board of Advisors for Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, WA and the Signal Cyber Museum Society. Ann is also the Executive Sponsor of the Microsoft Women in Security Group.
Ann challenges traditional schools of thought and cyber-norms–from the way the tech industry tackles cyber threats to the language it uses to communicate–and encourages the industry to get outside its comfort zones and expand how it addresses the evolving threat landscape with the power of technology and people. As a global cybersecurity leader and strategist, she is looking ahead at how today’s cybersecurity investments will impact tomorrow’s cybersecurity reality.
Ann currently serves on the Board of Directors of Seattle Humane, N-Able, Human Security, Datavant, and is Member of the Board of Advisors for Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, WA and the Signal Cyber Museum Society. Ann is also the Executive Sponsor of the Microsoft Women in Security Group.