Tarah Wheeler
American cybersecurity executive
Tarah Marie Wheeler (born February 12, 1979) is an American technology and cybersecurity author, public speaker, computer security professional, and executive. She is currently CEO of Red Queen Dynamics and Senior Fellow of Global Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, and she is the author of Women in Tech.
Early life and education
Wheeler received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Carroll College in 2001 and a Master of Science degree from Portland State University in 2004.
Career
Wheeler was a systems architect at mobile encryption firm Silent Circle.
In 2016, Wheeler was named a Cybersecurity Passcode Influencer by Christian Science Monitor and spoke to the Federal Trade Commission on information security in tech startups.
After a Kickstarter campaign, Wheeler published Women in Tech, a book dedicated to teaching women how to succeed in tech careers. The book was published with several contributors, including Esther Dyson and Brianna Wu, one of the targets of the Gamergate harassment campaign.
Wheeler served as the Website Cybersecurity Czar at Symantec, until her position was eliminated in August 2017.
Wheeler and her husband Deviant Ollam helped cybersecurity researcher Marcus Hutchins with his bail in August 2017 and to house him in Los Angeles during his arraignment period while he was investigated by the FBI on charges related to the Kronos rootkit; Hutchins later pleaded guilty to two of ten charges.
In 2021, Wheeler became a Fulbright Scholar in Cybersecurity at the University of Oxford.
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