Lea Kissner

Lea Kissner is LinkedIn's Chief Information Security Officer, Vice President of Engineering and a prominent cybersecurity practitioner. They were at Google for 11 years, building much of the infrastructure security stack, co-inventing the Zanzibar access control system, and left as Global Lead of Privacy Technology – technical lead of all privacy engineering and responsible for approving every single launch across the company. After that they made a mark on some of the biggest firms in technology, including Zoom (security and privacy consultant), Twitter (starting as a Distinguished Engineer and Head of Privacy Engineering and becoming CISO and VP of Engineering), and then as CISO at cybersecurity startup Lacework.