About the Speaker
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    Margaret White
    SVP & BISO, Wells Fargo

    Margaret White is currently Senior Vice President, Business Information Security Officer (BISO) for Wells Fargo’s Enterprise Functions. In this role, Margaret leads execution of cybersecurity posture and strategy for enterprise-wide cybersecurity engagements and provides bi-directional transparency to Enterprise Functions CEOs and CIOs. Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Margaret served in multiple leadership roles at Bank of America including Cybersecurity Technology Strategy for Incident Management and Data Loss Prevention; Threat Prevention Operations Transformation; Corporate and Commercial Banking BISO; and Customer Notifications Engine, delivering six million alerts per day.

    An award-winning technology leader in Financial Services, Margaret has spent nearly 20 years building, designing and protecting Critical Infrastructure financial systems. Passionate about people, Margaret advocates for colleagues, clients and the underserved through her work as a mentor and volunteer in employee networks and community organizations such as Women in Technology, Girls Who Code, Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) and BSides.

    Margaret is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and holds a BS in Computer Science from Florida State University where she co-founded the Women in Computer Science organization (now a chapter of ACM-W).