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Tarah Wheeler is an information security executive, AI researcher specializing in natural language processing, social data scientist in international conflict, author, and poker player. She is Chief Security Officer at TPO Group, a cybersecurity consulting firm focused on nation-state incident response, critical infrastructure, and cyber risk. She is a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Board of Directors, where she chairs the Audit Committee, serves on the Governance Committee, and founded the annual EFF DEF CON Poker Tournament.

• Regulations and Legislation
• Security Policies and Strategy
• Managing Vendors and Third Parties
• Threats and Vulnerabilities
• Incident Investigations/Handling and Tracking

• US/UK Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security
• Cyber Project Fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
• Board of directors, Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Cybersecurity working group expert for the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development
• Foreign Policy feature contributor on cyber warfare
• Author of the best-selling Women in Tech: Take Your Career to The Next Level with Practical Advice and Inspiring Stories

• GIAC Exploit Researcher & Advanced Penetration Tester
• GIAC Mobile Device Security Analyst
• ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor
• Harvard University- Postgraduate Certificate, Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age
• Portland State University – M.S., Political Science
  
• Carroll College – BA, International Relations
• Doctoral scholar at the University of Oxford‘s Oxford Internet Institute 

Tarah Wheeler, IANS Faculty member since 2024, delivers deep domain-level insights to clients on regulations and legislation, security policies and strategy, managing vendors and third parties, threats and vulnerabilities and incident investigations/handling and tracking.