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.

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.

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