
Masha Sedova
IANS Faculty
Masha Sedova is an award-winning cybersecurity expert, speaker, and trainer focused on helping companies transform their workforce from a security risk into a key element of cyberdefense. She is the co-founder and President of Elevate Security delivering a first-of-its-kind platform that enables organizations to identify risky employees, reduce the likelihood of future incidents, and proactively defend their workforce while ensuring a productive business. In 2021, Fast Company named her one of the most creative people in business. Before Elevate, Masha was a security executive at Salesforce where she built and led the human risk team. In addition, she has been a member of the board of directors for the National Cyber Security Alliance and a regular presenter at conferences such as Blackhat, RSA, OWASP, and SANS.
- User risk
- Security culture
- Security behaviors
- Insider threat
Achievements & Contributions
- Helped many large enterprise and federal agencies integrate and implement Best of Breed IAM technologies to service B2B, B2E, and B2C populations
- Implemented Identity and Access Management technologies to support very large user populations (10 million +)
- Developed Best Practices for implementing and securing IAM technologies and services in cloud environments using DevOps / DevSecOps practices
- Built global Security Operations Center (SOC) to support compliance initiatives for larger enterprise customers
- Developed
Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) common control framework to
help customer map enterprise compliance controls to security
initiatives and requirements