OWASP PDX - Cybersecurity Panel Discussion

Come join us for an hour to learn from our panelists about all the great opportunities and pathways in cybersecurity!

Bios:

Cassie Clark:
Passionate about bringing humans into security. She develops awareness programs focused on behavior change, user enablement, and culture. As Security Awareness Lead Engineer at Brex, she built and leads security awareness for employees and customers. Prior to Brex, she built the security awareness function at Cruise and focused on security engagement at Salesforce. She holds a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies and can often be seen holding a cup of coffee.

Traci Esteve:
As Director of Technology Governance and Risk for The Standard in Portland, Oregon, Traci Esteve is committed to protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and processing resources. She began her career as a developer and infrastructure engineer. This led to her rise to a premier technical architect at Accenture and to expanding the practice in Asia and Europe. Her journey includes staying home to raise her two sons and serving as an advisor to organizations to increase profitability, maximize customer value, and effectively meet regulatory requirements. She has a BS in Applied Science, MBA certification from Miami University, and a certification in Cybersecurity Risk Management from Harvard University. Traci enjoys cooking with her family, drawing, hiking, and encouraging high-school students to believe in themselves.

Jill Moné-Corallo:
is extremely passionate about how Response teams have a role in the security community. As the senior manager responsbile for both the Product Security Incident Response team (PSIRT) and the Bug Bounty team at GitHub, Jill is commited to protecting users, repairing relatonships, and growing a fantastic community of researchers. She began her career as an Apple store Genius while in studying cybersecurity at Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, New York). She was able to move into a role on the Product Security Incident Response team at Apple while finishing her degree. After several years of being on the team at Apple, and even having a hand in the creation of the Bug Bounty program, she decided to get more industry experience and moved to GitHub. At GitHub, Jill was able to navigate creating the PSIRT team and expanding the Bug Bounty program. She believes a key part of response teams is showing empathy and strives to share this with her teams. Jill has a BS in Cybersecurity from Mercy College and is finishing her MBA in Cybersecurity at Florida Institute of Technology. Currently she lives in Miami with her husband and two dogs; they enjoy cooking, frequent trips to Disney World, travel, and spending time with their incredibly large family.

Chitra Dharmarajan:
is a cyber security leader with experience in Product Security & Solutions Architecture encompassing Network, Cloud Infrastructure, Application & Container service security. Over the past 20 years she has donned different hats in Silicon Valley technology companies such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, General Electric, Argo AI & Box. At present, she is working for Okta | Auth0 and heading the Security Engineering initiatives. As an innovative technical leader, she has efficiently managed cross-geographical teams to successfully deliver secure development lifecycle, penetration testing, product development, and release management initiatives. With her forward-thinking vision, she strives for a continuous validation framework, which allows to detect and reduce product security issues. She’s also created a sourcing community of white-hat security researchers and accredited security validation partners who have become an extension of Product Security initiatives. Finally, the accountability she has established with product owners to have transparency and visibility on their security posture, through metrics, has helped to reduce post-production vulnerabilities and total cost in remediation.