Wendy Nather is a nonresident senior fellow with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the Atlantic Council Tech Programs, and the director of strategic engagements at Cisco. She was previously research director at the Retail Information Sharing 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 Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at the investment banking division of Swiss Bank Corporation (now the Union Bank of Switzerland), as well as for the Texas Education Agency. Nather is co-author of The Cloud Security Rules. She was listed as one of SC Magazine‘s women in IT security “power players” in 2014 and as an “influencer” in the Reboot Leadership Awards in 2018; she was also inducted into the Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame in 2021. She is an advisory board member for the RSA Conference and serves on the advisory board for Sightline Security, an organization that helps provide free security assessment services to nonprofit groups.