Rinki Sethi
Rinki Sethi has been vice president and Chief Information Security Officer at Twitter Inc since September 2020.[1][2] Sethi joined Twitter after the controversial 2020 Twitter bitcoin scam breach involving key people such as presidential candidate Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Elon Musk and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.[3] She was an Information Security Executive at IBM from 2018 to 2019.[4] She has also worked with companies like Walmart, Intuit, Ebay and others as a CISO and security expert.[5][6][7]
Rinki Sethi | |
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Nationality | Indian American |
Education | University of California, Davis, Capella University |
Occupation | VP and CISO at Twitter Inc |
Known for | Chief Information Security Officer, Vice President at Twitter, IBM |
Early life
Sethi is an Indian American, she 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.[8]
Career
Sethi started her career at Pacific Gas and Electric Company as an Information Security Specialist from July 2004 to August 2006. From August 2006 to March 2009 she worked at Walmart as a security engineer. Sethi was later appointed by Ebay from 2009 to September 2012 where she had different security roles. She worked as VP, Security Operations at Palo Alto Networks from 2015-2018.[9] She worked at IBM from October 2018 to April 2019 as the Vice President of Information Security.[10][11] She worked at Intuit as a Director of Product Security from 2012-2015.[12] Sethi served as chief information security officer at Rubrik from April 2019 to September 2020.[13][14] Sethi also serves as an advisor to several startups, including LevelOps, Authomize, and Cybersecurity organizations, including Women in Cybersecurity.[15][16][17]
References
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- "Twitter hires ex-IBM Rinki Sethi as its new VP and Chief Information Security Officer". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- "Go Phish: We get to know Rinki Sethi, VP and Ciso, Rubrik". Intelligent CISO. 2020-04-07. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- "Twitter hires ex-IMB executive Rinki Sethi as new Chief Information Security Officer". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
- "6 CISOs share their game plans for a post-pandemic world". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- "The Changing Role of the CISO". www.securitymagazine.com. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- "After breach, Twitter hires a new cybersecurity chief". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- "Twitter appoints Rinki Sethi as new information security head". cnbctv18.com. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- "Cyber For Women - Rinki Sethi - Palo Alto Networks". Poddtoppen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-12-26.