WLC 2020-2021
Cybersecurity
2021
December 9, 2020
Virtual Panel
12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Event Video
Women Leaders in Cybersecurity is the premier event bringing together leading women in cybersecurity to address some of the most pressing issues in the field today.
The 2020 conference, Cybersecurity 2021, featured topics including public health; insider threats; algorithmic bias; facial recognition and surveillance technologies; and civil and criminal liability. Speakers were executives from MasterCard, AIG, Forcepoint, Salesforce, and elsewhere, including former government officials from the CIA, NSA, and U.S. Army Cyber Command.
Panelists
Jennifer Buckner
Senior Vice President, Technology Risk Management
Mastercard
Brig. Gen U.S. Army (ret.)
Member, Board of Directors
US Xpress Enterprises, Inc.
Former Director of Cyber
Electronic Warfare and Information Operations
U.S. Army
Former Deputy Commander
U.S. Army Cyber Command
Judith H. Germano
Distinguished Fellow and Women Leaders Program Chair
NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Professor, NYU Masters in Cybersecurity Risk & Strategy
Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law
Founder
GermanoLaw LLC
Member, Board of Advisors
Truepic, Inc.
Former Chief of Economic Crimes
U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey
Jelena Kovačević
William R. Berkley Professor & Dean
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
Member, Executive Board
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering Deans Council
Founder and Co-Chair
Northeast Regional Deans (NeRDs) Council
Fellow
IEEE and EUSIPCO
Co-Founder, Former Technical VP
xWaveforms
Caroline Krass
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, General Insurance;
Deputy General Counsel
AIG
Former General Counsel
CIA
Former Acting Assistant Attorney General
Principal Deputy Attorney General
U.S. Department of Justice
Former Special Counsel to the U.S. President for National Security
Associate White House Counsel
Executive Office of the President
Kim Peretti
Partner
Alston & Bird
Co-Chair, Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response Team and National Security & Digital Crimes Team
Co-Founder and Co-Director
A&B Women in CyberTM Network
Former Director, Cyber Forensic Services Group
PwC
Former Senior Litigator
U.S. Department of Justice, Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section
Debora Plunkett
Member, Boards of Directors
Blue Voyant, Nationwide, JC Penney, and CACI International
Member, Board of Advisors
NYS Cybersecurity Advisory Board
Principal
Plunkett Associates
Former Senior Executive and Director of Information Assurance
National Security Agency (NSA)
Alicia Lowery Rosenbaum
Vice President
Associate General Counsel for Cybersecurity Technology and Trust
SalesForce
Fellow
Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
Former Senior Attorney
Microsoft
Rinki Sethi
Vice President and CISO
Twitter
Board Member
OneProsper International
Advisor
Authomize; LevelOps
Former Vice President of Information Security
IBM
Myrna Soto
Chief Strategy & Trust Officer
Forcepoint
Member, Boards of Directors
CMS Energy/Consumers Energy, Spirit Airlines and Popular Inc. (Banco Popular, Popular Bank)
Former COO
Digital Hands
Former Senior Vice President and Global CISO
Comcast
Thank you to Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Alston & Bird, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for their generous support.
