Rob Sloan is vice president of cybersecurity advocacy for Zscaler. He is a cybersecurity, risk, and technology expert with broad business skills and management responsibility. Prior to joining Zscaler, he served as research director at the Dow Jones Industrial Average and The Wall Street Journal, where he led a research team focused on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and sustainability issues and wrote a weekly column to help board directors navigate cyber risk.

Before The Wall Street Journal, Sloan worked as response director for a specialist information-technology security consultancy in London and built a team focused on detecting, investigating, and protecting against cyber intrusions and responding to incidents, especially state-sponsored attacks. Sloan began his career working for the UK government in defense and foreign affairs, investigating some of the earliest state-sponsored cyberattacks against the government, military, and critical national infrastructure networks.