Tarah Wheeler
Tarah Wheeler is
Cybersecurity Policy Fellow at New America leading a new international cybersecurity capacity building project with the
Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative. She is an inaugural contributing
cybersecurity expert for the Washington Post and a
Foreign Policy contributor on cyber warfare. She has
appeared on Bloomberg Asia on US-China trade and cybersecurity. She is the author of the best-selling
Women In Tech: Take Your Career to The Next Level With Practical Advice And Inspiring Stories. She is an information security researcher, political scientist in the area of international conflict, author, and poker player. She has been Head of Offensive Security & Technical Data Privacy at
Splunk & Senior Director of Engineering and Principal Security Advocate at
Symantec Website Security. She has led projects at
Microsoft Game Studios (Halo and Lips) and architected systems at encrypted mobile communications firm
Silent Circle. She has spoken on information security at the European Union, at the Malaysian Securities Commission, for Foreign Policy, the
OECD and FTC, at universities such as Stanford, American, West Point, and Oxford, and multiple governmental and industry conferences. She has $3640 in lifetime cashes in the
World Series of Poker. Reach her at
@tarah.