I'm Regina, and I teach computers to speak human
I also teach executives to speak security.
Like many of us, I liked to mess with computers as a teen. I still remember the old times messing around with my friends and "pranking" eachother with linux. My first machine was Ubuntu Linux.
Sometimes, you don't know about the good old days until you've left them.
Today, I am a leader of a red team unit.
Some people may call me the "first champion of autofill" because I led user studies which analyzed security at Google and paved the way for improvements in the payments sector (DevSecOps Security by Design Group).
This lead to the development of autofill across google shopping, google pay, and android.
Any innovation I make grows out of my own dislike for inefficiencies. That's how I get ideas. And I'm someone who gets frustrated and hates typing the same thing over and over.
I like to contribute to communities, so I have spent most of my time in this industry in vulnerability management and bug-bountying.
This is also why I’m an advocate for open-source projects and communities like Ubuntu, the Fediverse, Kali Linux, the Linux Foundation, and many open-source vulnerability disclosure programs. You can find the repositories linked at the bottom of the page.
I am introverted, so after a large talk I like to recharge for a little bit. I do a lot of talks and this is my self-care.
I hold credentials from Stanford University, the University of Utah, and several other organizations, listed below.
- Advanced Cybersecurity Graduate Program at Stanford University
- Certifications in AWS (Architecture, Consulting)
- Incident Response (ISC2), Systems Security (ISC2)
- Cisco CCNA
- SAP, SAP 4/HANA
- Zero Trust Security (Linux Foundation), Hacking the Linux Kernel, Open-source documentation for managers
- C, SQL, Python (HackTheBox)
- Qualyis: Vulnerability Management and Disclosure, Vulnerability Scanning, Container Security, Endpoint Security
- Member of the Institute of Community Directors Board Governance Program
