Coffee Talk: Former NSA Officer’s Advice on Preparing for Increased Cyberthreats

Rachel Wilson spent the first 15 years of her career at the National Security Agency (NSA) where she held several key senior executive level leadership positions, including head of NSA’s counterterrorism operations. Between 2010 and 2012, Rachel served as NSA’s Chief of Operations in the UK where she helped counter-terrorist and cyber threats to the 2012 Olympics. Returning to the US in 2012, Rachel spent nearly five years leading NSA’s cyber exploitation operations within NSA’s Tailored Access Operations. In April of 2017, Rachel became the first Head of Cybersecurity for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Investment Technology. She is currently Managing Director and Head of Cybersecurity for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

Clarke is an Enterprise Security Strategist with Amazon Web Services. In this role, Clarke works with enterprise security, risk, and compliance focused executives on how AWS can strengthen their security posture and to help understand the security capabilities/possibilities of the cloud. Prior to AWS, Clarke was a CISO for the North American operations of a multinational insurance/reinsurance company where he took a strategic division all-in to AWS for security reasons, to include achieving SOC2/Type2 attestation. Clarke’s 20+ year career in IT operations and security focused roles helps him align with the needs of today’s enterprise customers during their cloud transformation journeys. Clarke attended the University of North Carolina and served as a United States Marine.

Michael has more than 15 years of experience in Information Security at the US Department of Defense and more recently in commercial cyber defense, building tools and analyzing anomalies and patterns. He has also handled distribution of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTIs) in real-time multi-sensor defense situations.

Glenn is an experienced technology leader with a 20-year history in Silicon Valley start-ups. Prior to joining Clumio, Glenn was Vice President of Operations at Inscape Data, Inc. and Skyhigh Networks, Inc. (acquired by McAfee, Inc., in January 2018) as Vice President of Operations. Glenn is passionate about information security through DevSecOps practices, and enjoys building a security-aware organizational culture. Glenn also serves as an investor and advisor to RSA America LLC.