AI Cyber Lunch: "The Future of AI in Cybersecurity"

Name: AI Cyber Lunch: "The Future of AI in Cybersecurity"
Start: 2024-02-14T12:00:00-0500
End: 2024-02-14T13:00:00-0500

Open to the Public

Please join the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program for an AI Cyber Lunch featuring information security executive and social scientist Tarah Wheeler. Wheeler will give a talk entitled "The Future of AI in Cybersecurity." Q&A to follow. Buffet-style lunch will be served.

Registration: No RSVP is required. Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. All are welcome to attend virtually via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register using the button below; upon registering, attendees will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link.

Accessibility: To request accommodations or for questions about access, please contact Liz Hanlon (ehanlon@hks.harvard.edu) in advance of the session.

Date: Wed, Feb 14, 2024 Time: 12:00pm - 01:00pm Location: Rubenstein Building - David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB

Tarah Wheeler is an information security executive, social scientist in the area of international conflict, author, and poker player. She is CEO of the cybersecurity compliance company Red Queen Dynamics.

Tarah serves as the Senior Fellow for Global Cyber Policy at Council on Foreign Relations and was elected to Life Membership at CFR in 2023. She is an Electronic Frontier Foundation advisory board member, an inaugural contributing cybersecurity expert for the Washington Post, and a Foreign Policy contributor on cyber warfare. 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 has been a US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict at the University of Oxford, the Brookings Institution’s contributing cybersecurity editor, a Cyber Project Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University‘s Kennedy School of Government, and an International Security Fellow at New America leading a new international cybersecurity capacity building project with the Hewlett Foundation’s Cyber Initiative. 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 two cashes and $4722 in lifetime earnings in the World Series of Poker.