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Wendy Nather

Head of Advisory CISOs

Wendy Nather is Head of Advisory CISOs at Cisco’s Duo Security, based in Austin, Texas. 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 Reboot Leadership “Influencers” in 2018 and Women in IT Security “Power Players” in 2014.

7 articles by Wendy Nather

Security Anthropology: How Do Organizations Differ?

Different types of organizations have different threat profiles - instead of classic benchmarking, which can be problematic, researching and creating organizational personas can help us better understand how they approach security issues.

Information Security, Security Anthropology

Opinion: 4 Reasons Why Organizations Can’t “Just Patch”

The WannaCry debacle and most recent MaybeNotPetya attack has revealed that there are countless unpatched systems - no big surprise. Here’s what’s keeping organizations vulnerable, and what we can do about it.

Ransomware, Wannacry, Petya, Patching