Heather Adkins

Heather Adkins is a cybersecurity expert with 20+ years of industry experience and a founding member of the Google Security Team. She developed Google’s first programs for security assurance and helps set Google-wide strategy for protecting its infrastructure and users. Heather has led the response to significant security incidents and has briefed the National Academy of Sciences on the topics of breach recovery, incident response, insider risks and building modern safe computing environments. She is a co-author of Building Secure and Reliable Systems (O’Reilly, 2020) and is dedicated to uplifting security for the world beyond Google.