Tarah is the Founder and CEO of the cybersecurity compliance company Red Queen Dynamics. She also serves as the Senior Fellow for Global Cyber Policy at Council on Foreign Relations.  Tarah has spoken and testified on information security at the United States Senate, European Union and at multiple governmental and industry conferences.
Prior to launching Red Queen Dynamics, Tarah was the Head of Offensive Security & Technical Data Privacy at Splunk and Senior Director of Engineering and Principal Security Advocate at Symantec Website Security.

• 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

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.