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We\u2019re excited to welcome to the podcast Lauren Zabierek, Senior Policy Advisor to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). She deep dives into CISA\u2019s Secure by Design principles and approaches for secure by design software launched in April 2023 - with version two published on October 17, 2023. Lauren shares insights on the path to creation of CISA\u2019s Secure by Design principles and how this \u2018living document\u2019 will continue to evolve in the dynamic and ever-changing landscape that is cybersecurity. We also discuss the global collaboration and interest in co-sealing the Secure by Design guidance across a multitude of international cybersecurity agencies - and moving forward this \u2018need we can all agree on\u2019. And it wouldn\u2019t be To The Point podcast episode without Lauren\u2019s awesome origin story and career pathway to today, including co-founding the online social media movement \xa0#ShareTheMicInCyber. You don\u2019t want to miss this episode!

Lauren Zabierek, Senior Policy Advisor and Lead Expert in Secure-by-Design at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

In January 2023, Lauren Zabierek was named a Senior Policy Advisor to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Previously, she was the Executive Director of the Cyber Project at Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Belfer Center. She came to this role as a 2019 graduate of the Kennedy School's mid-career MPA program. \xa0Her work focused on strategic, national security issues in cyber and tech--ranging from international conflict, cooperation, and norms to domestic collaboration, diversity, privacy, and supply chain issues. \xa0She was also the first woman participant in the Elbe Group discussions on cybersecurity, having been a part of the cyber-focused dialogue in 2019 in Stockholm, Sweden and again in 2021 virtually.

Lauren is the co-founder of the online social media movement called #ShareTheMicInCyber, which aims to dismantle racism in cybersecurity and privacy. #ShareTheMicInCyber started as an online conversation on Twitter and LinkedIn but has become so much more--it is breaking down barriers in the cyber industry through individual and collective action. Since its inception, the movement has garnered over 100 million Twitter impressions and featured participation by the nation's cyber leaders.

For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e262