Power players

Said Night Dragon's vice president of business development and strategic alliances of finally finding female colleagues: "At that point I realized how empowered I felt to have someone that resembled me in my world.”

"My goal is to shift the paradigm from plain-old public-private partnership to true operational collaboration; from information-sharing to information-enabling," the CISA director to SC Media. "This is in part the focus of the new Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) — bringing the power of the federal government with the power of industry to prevent incidents before they occur, and ensure a rapid and coordinated response when they do."

Said the vice president of global security and privacy risk management role at Reinsurance Group: "I’ve always organically wanted growth in my career to happen, so every two to three years, I would find myself in conversations with my boss about what’s next? What opportunities, what challenges, what can I help with?”

Many of the solutions Target developed — with 17 patents secured and more pending — comes down to "getting out of the way of these really smart people on my team," says the company's vice president of cybersecurity.

The co-founder of Menlo Security described the mantra simply: That “isolation is the only way you should connect to the internet.” And it's resonating: Nine out of the 10 largest banks are Menlo customers. "Wells Fargo is the holdout.”

Said the chief technology officer and founding partner of advisory firm SecurityCurve: "I always like to keep a balance. I think it's really easy to just start looking through one lens — forget what else is out there.”

Parisa Tabriz is director of engineering at Google, overseeing Chrome and the Project Zero team of bug hunters.

As a respected cybersecurity strategist, Caroline Wong believes in the power of data and metrics to gauge the effectiveness of a company’s security program.