Wendy Nather is a nonresident senior fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council Tech Programs. She has been working in cybersecurity for over twenty-five years.  She was previously director of advisory chief information security officers at Duo Security and research director at the Retail & Hospitality Information Security and Analysis Center, where she was responsible for advancing the state of resources and knowledge to help organizations defend their infrastructure from attackers. Nather was also research director of the Information Security Practice at independent analyst firm 451 Research, covering the security industry in areas such as application security, threat intelligence, security services, and other emerging technologies.
 
Nather has served as a chief information security officer in both the private and public sectors. She led information technology (IT) security for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region of the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS), as well as for the Texas Education Agency. Nather is co-author of The Cloud Security Rules, as well as Splunk’s Bluenomicon. She was listed as one of SC Magazine’s women in IT security “power players” in 2014 and an “influencer” in the Reboot Leadership Awards in 2018; she was inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame in 2021. She serves on the board of directors for Sightline Security, an organization that helps provide free security assessment services to nonprofit groups. Nather is a steering committee member for the Institute for Security and Technology Ransomware Task Force. She is based in Fort Collins, Colorado.