Wendy Nather

Abstract: As our software goes, so goes our society. From the biases we inject into algorithms, to flawed security trust models in our architecture, to “dark patterns” in design, to social platforms abused for propaganda, we are vulnerable to trust-based attacks. In order to fight these micro- and macro-level vulnerabilities, we need to rethink our steps all along the way.

Wendy Nather is Director of Advisory CISOs at Duo Security. She was previously the Research Director at the Retail ISAC, as well as Research Director of the Information Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research. Wendy led IT security for the EMEA region of the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), and served as CISO of the Texas Education Agency. She speaks regularly on topics ranging from threat intelligence to identity and access management, risk analysis, incident response, data security, and societal and privacy issues. Wendy is co-author of The Cloud Security Rules, and was listed as one of SC Magazine’s Women in IT Security “Power Players” in 2014.