Women in Tech
Take Your Career to the Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories
Cybersecurity attacks are doubling every year. Phishing scams are at an all-time high. These days, it isn’t an IT flunky answering for security breaches, it’s CEOs and business owners—non-tech professionals who need clear, actionable guides and information on how to secure themselves and protect their customer’s data. Enter Tarah Wheeler: one of America’s leading cybersecurity experts, as well as lead writer of Women in Tech—called “the essential handbook for women in technology” by Library Journal.
Tarah Wheeler is a global leader in keeping private citizens and corporations safe from cyber attacks. She is a International Security Fellow at New America, a Belfer Cybersecurity Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, leading an international cybersecurity capacity building project; a contributing cybersecurity expert for The Washington Post; and a Foreign Policy contributor on cyber warfare. Most recently, Wheeler was selected for the prestigious Fulbright Cyber Security Scholar Award. Under the scholarship, she will conduct research at Oxford University, in conjunction with the UK National Health Service, on defining cyber war crimes and mitigating the harms civilians face in nation-state sponsored cyberattacks.
Previously, Wheeler was the cybersecurity czar at Symantec—one of the world’s top cybersecurity firms, and the Head of Offensive Security & Technical Data Privacy at Splunk. She has also led projects at Microsoft Game Studios, including the iconic video game franchise Halo. Once named the top female cybersecurity influencer in the world by Onalytica, Wheeler is also a serial entrepreneur: she is an advisory board member for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a board of directors member at several cybersecurity companies, and is also the author of the #1 Amazon career guide bestseller Women in Tech: Take Your Career to The Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories, which has topped the #1 Amazon bestseller lists in career guides, women in business, and technology nonfiction.
Wheeler holds an MSc from Portland State University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Scrum Master (CSM), and a Certified Scrum Developer (CSD). She is also a pre-candidate for a PhD in Complex Systems and Political Science from the University of Michigan and a National Science Foundation Fellow. A Texas holdem poker player, she acquired her startup funds by cleaning out poker rooms in the Northwest and Las Vegas.