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Bestselling Author & Cyber Historian | Former New York Times Cybersecurity Journalist
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Nicole Perlroth spent over a decade exposing the secret, multi-billion-dollar market for zero-day exploits and state-sponsored espionage — revealing how geopolitical conflicts are fought inside corporate networks.
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Based on her award-winning bestseller, Perlroth takes audiences into the shadows of the unguided, unregulated global market for Zero-Day exploits. She explains why the weaponization of software vulnerabilities leaves every business, utility, and bank inherently exposed to collateral damage from nation-state skirmishes.
Geopolitical rivals are no longer just hacking for intelligence; they are "prepositioning" inside critical infrastructure to execute destructive attacks in a future conflict. Perlroth explains why the corporate supply chain is the primary target and how leaders can protect their assets when private networks become geopolitical battlefields.
Drawing on her deep investigative podcast and research, Perlroth outlines China's aggressive, coordinated decades-long campaign of intellectual property theft and technological espionage. She provides organizations with crucial context to navigate supply chain risks, joint ventures, and technological competition.
Perlroth discusses her transition from exposing government cyber gaps to actively serving on the CISA Advisory Committee. She outlines how public-private partnerships must evolve to protect national security, demanding a radical cultural shift toward collective defense and shared intelligence.
Nicole Perlroth is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author, and cyber security strategist who spent thirteen years leading the cybersecurity coverage for The New York Times. Her reporting repeatedly catalyzed federal indictments of state-sponsored hackers and exposed the underground trade of zero-day exploits, earning her a Pulitzer Prize nomination and establishing her as one of the most influential chroniclers of modern cyber warfare. Her landmark book, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, was named the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame, and heralded as the definitive account of the digital arms race.
In 2021, Perlroth pivoted from journalism to direct policy, joining the Advisory Committee of CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and the Council on Foreign Relations' Cyber Task Force to help draft new frameworks for national cyber defense. She currently serves as a Venture Partner at Ballistic Ventures and Managing Director of Silver Buckshot, her cyber mission fund. A graduate of Princeton and Stanford universities, Perlroth regularly lectures at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, helping corporate boards, investors, and policymakers understand the strategic risks of a hyper-digitized global economy.
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