Nicole Perlroth

Nicole Perlroth spent the past decade immersed in the most significant cyberattacks in history, tracking state-sponsored hacking groups, and embedding with the nation’s top cybersecurity operators, executives, threat researchers, policymakers and investors. Her articles on government spyware were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and her New York Times bestseller, "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends," earned her the McKinsey/Financial Times’ prestigious 2022 Best Business Book of the Year Award and the Arthur J. Ross Award 2023 for her contribution to foreign policy. Her investigations compelled the U.S. government to indict state-sponsored hackers and mercenaries, and even led to the outing, and blacklisting, of multiple spyware companies. Her work drilled home the urgency of digital threats and helped catapult the challenges, and solutions, into the national consciousness. In 2021, she left journalism to go “inside the tent” in solving the nation’s cybersecurity challenges. She joined the advisory board of the Homeland Security Department.