Rinki Sethi

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Rinki Sethi
NationalityIndian American
Education University of California, Davis, Capella University
Known forChief Information Security Officer, Vice President at Twitter, IBM

Rinki Sethi is an American technology executive who has held Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Information Security roles at several large companies.

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Education

Sethi attended Capella University from 2006 to 2007 and completed a Master's Degree in Information Security, and completed a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering from UC Davis in 2004. [1]

Career

Sethi worked at Intuit as a Director of Product Security from 2012-2015. [2] She worked as VP, Security Operations at Palo Alto Networks from 2015-2018. [3] She worked at IBM from October 2018 to April 2019 as the Vice President of Information Security. [4] [5] Sethi served as Chief Information Security Officer at Rubrik from April 2019 to September 2020. [6] [7] She was an Information Security Executive at IBM from 2018 to 2019. [8]

She was vice president and Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter Inc. [9] [10] Sethi joined Twitter after the 2020 Twitter bitcoin scam breach which compromised accounts of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Elon Musk and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. [11]

She has also worked with companies like Walmart, Intuit, Ebay and others as a CISO and security expert. [12] [13] [14]

Sethi also serves as an advisor to several startups, including LevelOps, Authomize, and Cybersecurity organizations, including Women in Cybersecurity. [15] [16] [17] Sethi was named to the board of directors of Forge Rock in August 2021. [18]

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References

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  2. ↑ "Twitter hires ex-IMB executive Rinki Sethi as new Chief Information Security Officer". The New Indian Express. 29 September 2020. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
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  8. ↑ Solomon, Howard (19 April 2017). "Fighting 'the boy's club' mentality in cyber security". IT World Canada. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
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  11. ↑ infotech (2020-09-29). "Twitter appoints Rinki Sethi as CISO after Kim Kardashian incident". InfotechLead. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  12. ↑ Cimpanu, Catalin. "Twitter hires new CISO in industry veteran Rinki Sethi". ZDNet. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  13. ↑ "Twitter Fills Chief Information Security Officer Role With Rinki Sethi". 30 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
  14. ↑ Marks, Joseph. "Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: DHS is highlighting diversity as a key cybersecurity goal". Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 2020-12-26.
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