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With the departure of all three leaders of the Secure by Design movement from CISA earlier this year, questions surround the future of the program. Is it dead? Where do we go from here? What can the community to do help bring about this much-needed systemic change? Bob Lord and Lauren Zabierek sit down for a discussion on the work they did and the work that remains.
A 45-minute moderated discussion featuring Bob Lord and Lauren Zabierek.
Paul is a respected cybersecurity journalist and Editor in Chief at The Security Ledger. Since 2018 he has spearheaded efforts to organize the information security community to support a right to repair as founder of the group Secure Repairs.
Lauren was a senior advisor in the Cybersecurity Division at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) with over 22 years in national security. There, she co-led the Secure by Design movement. Previously, she served as the Executive Director of the Cyber Project at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, where she ran a policy-relevant research program and managed students and fellows. She came to that role as a 2019 graduate of the Kennedy School’s midcareer MPA program. Prior to graduate school, she was an early member of the cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, having established and managed their public sector team. She also served as a civilian intelligence analyst at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency with multiple deployments to Afghanistan and served as a US Air Force intelligence officer at the beginning of her career. Lauren is also the co-founder of the online social media movement, #ShareTheMicInCyber. She advises the #ShareTheMicInCyber Fellowship at New America, where is a fellow herself, and is a fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University. She is a mother and a drummer.
