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Yan Zhu (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/yan-zhu/27/242/b71), Forbes 30 under 30 (http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathryndill/2015/03/25/secret-keepers-members-of-the-forbes-30-under-30-protecting-your-valuables/), will talk about the current (dismal) state of email security and how Yahoo is solving some of those problems through user-facing PGP encryption for webmail. Washington Post Article (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/07/yahoo-to-role-out-end-to-end-encryption-option-for-all-yahoo-mail-users-in-2015/)

Yan is a security engineer at Yahoo, working mostly on email encryption and TLS. In her spare time, she is a Technology Fellow at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/) and a core developer of SecureDrop. Previously she worked full-time as a software developer for EFF and the Tor Project. Yan was also acknowledged in Forbe's 2015 30 Under 30 Rising Stars Of Enterprise Technology.

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