Apps, Access & AI: The Modern CIO Briefing

Apps, Access & AI: The Modern CIO Briefing is built for CIOs, Heads of IT, and security leaders who are stuck between old realities and new pressures.

Legacy Windows apps still run the business. VPNs, VDI, and RDP are expensive and fragile. Zero-trust mandates keep tightening. And now the board is asking, “What’s our AI strategy?” long before your apps are ready.

In each 10–15 minute episode, we unpack a specific challenge from rethinking legacy app access ahead of Windows 10 end-of-life, to using AI “vision agents” to automate apps that don’t have APIs—then outline a practical path you can take back to your team.

You’re the hero of the story. Our job is to give you clear language, concrete examples, and simple plans you can use to reduce TCO, enforce zero trust, and move AI initiatives from slideware to reality.

Hosted by Sonet.io, a unified, browser-based workspace that helps enterprises deliver any app through the browser, secure every session, and run AI safely inside a controlled environment.

This podcast uses AI-enhanced voice clones from ElevenLabs with full executive consent.

Contributors

Co-host

Dharmendra “DM” Mohan

Dharmendra “DM” Mohan is the Founder & CEO of Sonet.io and a former engineering leader at Blue Coat and Symantec. Over more than 20 years in cybersecurity and cloud, he has launched and scaled global security services in public clouds, helped build Blue Coat from startup to a network security market leader, and holds multiple cybersecurity patents. Today, he partners with CIOs and IT leaders to rethink how they deliver and secure applications for a distributed workforce—moving away from fragile VPN/VDI stacks toward a unified, browser-based workspace that bakes in zero trust, observability, and AI-readiness from the start.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharmendra-mohan/

Co-host

Jeff Burchett

Jeff Burchett leads go-to-market at Sonet.io, where he partners with CIOs and IT leaders who are rethinking how they deliver and secure applications. Jeff has more than 15 years of experience in GTM strategy, sales leadership, and channel development across networking, cloud, and security. He co-founded Bigleaf Networks and served as Chief Revenue Officer, helping scale the company to thousands of B2B customers and building multi-channel routes to market. Earlier in his career, he served as President of a regional wireless Internet provider and held enterprise sales roles at a Fortune 500 telecom. Jeff brings that mix of technical grounding and business pragmatism into Apps, Access & AI: The Modern CIO Briefing, focusing each conversation on what actually helps leaders reduce risk, cut complexity, and move AI from slideware to implementation.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffburchett/