Nadean Tanner

Head of ThreatSpace, Google

With over 20 years of experience in both private and public sector environments as well as higher academia, Nadean has a solid background in synchronous and asynchronous education as well as extensive experience in hardware, networking, operating systems, cybersecurity and project management. Nadean entered the security field as a professional services engineer working for a SIEM, and later specialized in security analytics at RSA. She has designed and implemented training for all Rapid7 offerings including InsightVM, InsightIDR and Metasploit. She has more recently participated on teams tasked to assess and advise governmental agencies and Global Fortune 100 clients, with a focus on maturing an organization’s ability to more quickly and effectively detect, respond to, and contain targeted attacks using ThreatSpace. In 2020, she was the honorable mention for SC Magazine Women in IT Security award.