Wendy Nather (she/her)
Head of Advisory CISOs
Cisco
Wendy Nather leads the Advisory CISO team at Cisco. She was previously the Research Director at the Retail ISAC and Research Director of the Information Security Practice at 451 Research.
Wendy led IT security for the EMEA region’s investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS) and served as CISO of the Texas Education Agency. She was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame in 2021. Wendy serves on the advisory board for Sightline Security. She is a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and a Senior Cybersecurity Fellow at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin.