Security by Design: How Ally Financial’s CISO Builds Resiliency Into the Cloud

Technovation with Peter High (CIO, CTO, CDO, CXO Interviews) · Sep 28, 2026 · 32m

A digital-only bank can’t afford to retrofit security. Ally Financial builds it in from the start.

In this episode of Technovation, Peter High speaks with Spencer Cremers, Chief Information Security Officer at Ally Financial, about designing security and resiliency into cloud infrastructure by default — and what that requires organizationally.

Cremers spent 20+ years at Ally progressing through divisional CIO and engineering roles before becoming CISO, including a stretch as interim Chief Information and Data Officer. That delivery background shapes how he positions security: not as a…