Margaret White

Margaret currently serves as Divisional CISO for Truist’s Consumer and Small Business and Technology Delivery organizations. In this role, Margaret leads execution of cybersecurity posture and strategy for cybersecurity engagements and provides bi-directional transparency to Line of Business and Technology executive leadership.

Prior to joining Truist, Margaret served in multiple leadership roles at Wells Fargo and Bank of America including Enterprise Functions BISO, Cybersecurity Technology Strategy for Incident Management and Data Loss Prevention; Threat Prevention Operations Transformation; Corporate and Commercial Banking BISO; and Customer Notifications Engine, delivering six million alerts per day.

An award-winning technology leader in Financial Services, Margaret has spent nearly 20 years building, designing and protecting Critical Infrastructure financial systems. Passionate about people, Margaret advocates for colleagues, clients and the underserved through her work as a mentor and volunteer in employee networks and community organizations such as Women in Technology, Girls Who Code, Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) and BSides.

Margaret is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and holds a BS in Computer Science from Florida State University where she co-founded the Women in Computer Science organization (now a chapter of ACM-W).