NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Caroline Wong is, by all accounts, a trailblazer in the cybersecurity industry. Caroline holds deep-rooted expertise in information security, beginning her security career 15+ years ago and leading security teams at eBay and Zynga. Since then, she has run a global product management team at Symantec, and has been a management consultant at an application security company called Cigital, which was later acquired by Synopsys. Currently as the Chief Strategy Officer at Cobalt, the pentesting-as-a-service company, Caroline is on the forefront of innovation every day.

Caroline is the author of a popular cybersecurity textbook (“Security Metrics, A Beginner’s Guide”), as well as “The PtaaS Book”, a regular speaker at prominent cybersecurity events like RSA Conference and Developer Week, and a frequent contributor to the Forbes Tech Council. And her contributions to the information security community don’t stop there: Caroline hosts her own podcast, “Humans of InfoSec” and has been an active LinkedIn Learning instructor since 2018. Caroline is well-known and respected in the information security community, having received numerous accolades and recognitions.