Episode 44: Masha Sedova, Co-Founder Elevate Security on Human Risk Management

Masha Sedova is an award-winning people-security expert, speaker, and entrepreneur focused on helping companies transform employees from a risk into a key element of defense.

She has been a part of our OODA Network for years, including speaking at our legacy FedCyber event, where she introduced the behavior-based and gamified cybersecurity training and awareness she put in place at Salesforce.

She is the co-founder of Elevate Security delivering an employee-risk management platform that provides visibility into employee risk while motivating employees to make better security decisions. Before Elevate, Masha Sedova was a security executive at Salesforce where she built and led the security engagement team focused on improving the security mindset of employees, partners and customers. In addition, Masha has been a member of the Board of Directors for the National Cyber Security Alliance and regular presenter at conferences such as Black Hat, RSA, ISSA, Enigma, OWASP and SANS.

Before Elevate, Masha Sedova was a security executive at Salesforce where she built and led the security engagement team focused on improving the security mindset of employees, partners, and customers. The scope of her work ran the gamut from general awareness such as phishing and reporting activity to secure engineering practices by developers and engineers. In addition, Masha is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Cyber Security Alliance and a regular presenter at conferences such as Blackhat, RSA, ISSA, Enigma, and SANS.

Other Resources:

Masha Sedova on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mashasedova/

Elevate Security: https://elevatesecurity.com

OODA Network Interview with Masha

FedCyber Interview with Keynote Speaker Masha Sedova

RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist Presentation