Leigh Honeywell, CEO and founder of Tall Poppy, a security company that is building tools and services to help companies protect their employees from online harassment and abuse, talks about her career running security incident response at Slack, protecting infrastructure running a million apps at Salesforce.com, shipping patches for billions of computers on the Patch Tuesday team at Microsoft and analyzing malware at Symantec.

We talk about how all of these demanding jobs prepared her for her work at Tall Poppy, get into what she learned about the intersection of First Amendment speech protections vs. online safety from working at the ACLU, why changing the culture of online harassment will probably have to be a marathon, not a sprint, and Leigh shares her experiences with several accelerator startup organizations.

0:00 - Equity in cybersecurity
3:10 - Getting into cybersecurity
7:15 - From physics to computer science
12:30 - How Tall Poppy came to be
19:26 - Technology fellow at the ACLU
26:26 - What is Tall Poppy?
31:20 - Social platforms and change
39:53 - How to work toward equity in cybersecurity
43:02 - Y combinator startup accelerator in cybersecurity
50:07 - LGBTQ+ inclusion in cybersecurity
54:27 - Learn more about Tall Poppy
56:06 - Outro

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