Season 3 Episode 1: Wise Women: A Chat with Ariel Weintraub

01/08/21 • 25 min

In this episode, Ashley sat down for a chat with Ariel about her career path, experience and transition to leadership. Ashley and Ariel discuss topics such as career influence, time management, leading a team, and the impacts of the pandemic.

Guest - Ariel Weintraub: Ariel Weintraub joined MassMutual in the fall of 2019 as the Head of Security Operations & Engineering, where she is responsible for the Global Security Operations Center, Security Engineering, Security Intelligence and Identity & Access Management. Prior to joining MassMutual, Ariel served as Senior Director of Data & Access Security within Cybersecurity Operations at TIAA where she led a three-year business transformation program to position IAM as a digital business enabler. Prior to TIAA, Ariel held the position of Global Head of Vulnerability Management at BNY Mellon and was part of the Threat & Vulnerability Management practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Ariel holds a Masters of Science in Cybersecurity from New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering and a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business. Ariel has a passion for empowering women, especially the next generation of female cybersecurity leaders and serves on the Board for the Executive Women’s Forum (EWF) and the ISACA One in Tech Foundation.
Host - Ashley McArthur: Ashley McArthur is a Cyber Risk Senior Consultant within the Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory practice with a focus on Data Privacy. Ashley has a wide array of experience from over 11 years in the healthcare industry with a background in privacy monitoring, data governance, compliance and privacy programs, to information security, data analytics, and risk management. She has experience with regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). She has coordinated training, workflow and operational readiness during acquisitions, led and supported enterprise-wide compliance and privacy initiatives including audit readiness, program maturity and process controls. Ashley also analyzed large data sets to direct corporate strategy initiatives, implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI) software and process controls for data governance and data classification.
Support the show (https://www.ewf-usa.com/)

Support the show

Support the show

Previous Episode

Season 2 Episode 10: Securing your Pacemaker

In this episode, our guest Vidya Murthy talks about a wide range of topics such as critical problems to solve in the medical device security space and her vision for bringing regulation, business and technology together to solve such problems. She also has some sage advice for millennials on working in a startup and how pursuing an advanced degree in business propelled her to success.
Guest - Vidya Murthy
Vidya is fascinated by the impact of cybersecurity on the healthcare space. Beginning her career in consulting, she realized a passion for healthcare and worked for global medical device manufacturer Becton Dickinson. She has since joined MedCrypt, a company focused on bringing cybersecurity leading practices to medical device manufacturers as Vice President of Operations. Vidya holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
Host - Preeti Ravindra
Preeti is a security data scientist leading a team of security analytics researchers at IBM providing technical expertise to artificial intelligence projects for security and contributing intellectual property to IBM's portfolio. She is passionate about formulating and developing practical applications incorporating data science and machine learning to enhance security products and solutions in a constantly evolving threat landscape. Preeti has prior experience as a software developer in Cisco and as a security researcher at IBM X-Force. During her spare time, she gives back to the community by creating podcast content to create awareness about emerging technologies in cybersecurity. She also engages in women in cybersecurity initiatives both within and outside of her organization. Preeti holds a Masters Degree in Information Networking with a concentration in Cybersecurity from Carnegie Mellon University.

Support the show

Next Episode

Season 3 Episode 2: A Day In My Life: Designing cybersecurity tools that the user needs

In this episode, Preeti hosts Ploy Buraparate, a user experience and design researcher in cybersecurity. Ploy vividly paints a picture about how she delivers excellence in security tooling by researching and evangelizing insights from empathizing with the users of products and services. She also talks about skills needed to start an exciting career in user experience research (user experience). Ploy and Preeti have a conversation on the tradeoff between security, usability and privacy and how diverse viewpoints can make these tradeoffs frictionless.
Guest:
Ploy Buraparate is a user researcher, storyteller, and design thinking leader in Austin, Texas. Her work focuses on finding real, human insights and embedding them into practices that make impact and drive change. She works as a design research lead with IBM Security.
Host:
Preeti is a Senior Security Machine Learning Specialist at Charles Schwab Corporation where she provides technical expertise to artificial intelligence projects for cybersecurity. She has experience in developing practical solutions using data science and machine learning for information technology programs as well as commercial security products. She has prior experience as an applied security researcher at IBM X-Force where her work has contributed to intellectual property and conference talks.
During her spare time, she gives back to the community by creating podcast content to create awareness about emerging technologies in cybersecurity. She also engages in women in cybersecurity initiatives both within and outside of her organization. Preeti holds a Masters Degree in Information Networking with a concentration in Cybersecurity from Carnegie Mellon University.

Support the show