Simi opens the season with Rinki Sethi, the Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter.
Rinki’s hiring at Twitter was a watershed moment. Not only because she's trailblazer as a South Asian women holding traditionally male-dominated position, but also because she joined the team after the platform suffered a major hack in July 2020. The Twitter crypto scam compromised the accounts of figures from President Joe Biden to Elon Musk.
Previously, Rinki served as the CISO at cloud data management company Rubrik, and also held senior cybersecurity roles at IBM, Palo Alto Networks and Intuit. She began her career at the PG&E, Walmart, and Ebay. On the side, Rinki serves as an advisor to several startups, including LevelOps, Authomize, and organizations like Women in Cybersecurity. In this episode, we catch up on everything from the moment that unlocked her passion for cybersecurity to what it's like to fend off threats on a platform used by 330 million people across the globe.
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