Hello and welcome to Get It Started Get It Done, the Banyan Security podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with Laura Whitt-Winyard, an experienced Chief Information Security Officer most recently at Malwarebytes. We hope you enjoy Den's discussion with Laura Whitt-Winyard.
Laura Whitt-Winyard is a Fellow at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT). ICIT is the US’s leading cybersecurity think tank providing objective nonpartisan research, advisory, and education to legislative, commercial, and public-sector cybersecurity stakeholders in the protection of the nation’s critical infrastructure. As a Fellow, she is one of the authors of the recently published book Securing the Nation's Critical Infrastructures: A Guide for the 2021-2025 Administration, plus she has contributed to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission's report on cybersecurity chaired by Senator Angus King (I-Maine) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) as well as The Cybershield Act S.965 of the 117th Congress in conjunction with Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Congressman Ted W. Lieu (CA-33). She is also an International Advisory Board Member and Women in Technology board member at HMG Strategy. Laura is the former Chief Information Security Officer at Malwarebytes and former Global Chief Information Security Officer for DLL Group. Prior to her time at DLL Group, she was Director of Security for Billtrust. Laura also held senior leadership positions in security at Comcast and Bloomberg, LP.