Backstory

Nicole Perlroth spent 13 years leading cybersecurity coverage at The New York Times. Her Times bestseller, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends,” earned her the FT McKinsey “Best Business Book of the Year Award,” the Arthur J. Ross Award for Foreign Policy and was inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame.

In 2021, she left journalism to go “inside the tent” to help solve the nation’s cyber challenges. She is a venture partner at Ballistic Ventures, managing director of her own cyber mission fund, Silver Buckshot, and served on the advisory committee of the DHS’ cyber defense agency, CISA, and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Cyber Task Force.

She is a graduate of Princeton University (B.A.), Stanford University (M.A.) and regularly lectures at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her podcast, “To Catch a Thief” charts China’s rise to cyber dominance.