Tammy Moskites is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Venafi. Tammy’s vision is to partner with CIOs and CISOs across the globe to provide guidance for them to be able to fortify their strategies to defend against increasingly complex and damaging cyber-attacks against the trust established by cryptographic keys and digital certificates. Tammy’s professional experience, leadership and recognized domain expertise as the CISO of Global 250 companies helps fellow CISOs defend their organizations.
Tammy has over 25 years of IT experience and is noted by her peers to be a results-driven and passionate executive leader with expertise envisioning and leading IT Security, Technology and Operational Support based organizations. She is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and has held her ITIL Foundation Certification since 2001. She is well known within the security community for her ability to step in and fix broken processes and departments and building amazing teams with exceptionally strong morale, self-confidence and teamwork! Tammy’s professional affiliations include, but are not limited to, ISSA, ISACA, InfraGard, and the Information Risk Security Board. She leads the the Executive Advisory Board for Venafi, Inc., and sits on the advisory board of BOX.com as well as on the CSO Executive Advisory Board for Qualys, Inc. Tammy moderates for security roundtables, panel events and sought after to speak on reengineering information security organizations and how to make them high performing teams. She has spoken at multiple security events globally including, RSA, ISE, ISSA, ISACA, InfoSec UK, and many more. You will also find her leading career seminars including “Navigating your IT Career” to diverse groups throughout the United States. One of her passions is to volunteer her knowledge regarding IT Security, Career Planning and Mentoring/Coaching expertise at non-profit companies, diverse chapters and IT events.
Tammy was recently awarded as a finalist for the 2014 Women in Technology Awards and was also on the cover of CSO Magazine in May 2014, Leap of Faith. Evanta Global CISO Summit recognized her as one of the top 25 breakaway CISO leaders for 2013. She also was recognized as one of the Top Women in Technology for 2013 by CableFax magazine. Tammy is the 2012 and 2010 North American Information Security Executive People's Choice of the Year Winner at the ISE Awards. She was a finalist for Information Security Executive of the Decade in 2012 and Executive of the year for North America in 2012 and 2010.
In her spare time Tammy is an avid cook. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends fishing, golfing, entertaining and attending sporting events.