I spent more than a decade as the lead cybersecurity investigations reporter at The New York Times, where my investigations rooted out the classified cyberweapons market, commercial spyware industry, Russian, North Korean Iranian and Chinese cyberattacks on our most critical infrastructure, trade secrets, and personal data-- including a months long Chinese hack of The Times. My work helped compel the first United States hacking charges against the Chinese military, the blacklisting of Israel's NSO Group, and earned a number of journalism awards. My New York Times bestseller, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends” about the global cyber arms race, won the McKinsey-FT “Business Book of the Year Award,” the Arthur Ross "Foreign Policy Book of the Year" prize, was inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame, and was optioned for scripted television (FX) and documentary film (MediaRes). I left the Times in 2021 to join the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CISAC) and start my own cyber mission fund, Silver Buckshot Ventures. I also serve as a Venture Parter at Ballistic Ventures, a cybersecurity VC firm, where I've backed next-generation deepfake detection solutions (GetReal), disinformation tracking platforms (Alethea Group), secure browsers (Talon), Manifest, Reach and founders who are really cyber heroes. I sit on the advisory boards of cyber companies, including Rubrik, Nozomi, Veza, Nudge, Pyron, and Safe Security.I've been widely cited and published in the NYTimes, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Economist, Wired, Forbes, CNN, PBS, NPR, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, HBO's "Realtime with Bill Maher," NBC’s “Meet The Press,” “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “Dan Rather’s America,” Axios, CNBC, and Lawfare, and The Times’ “The Daily” and “Sway” podcasts, VOX’s “Pivot” podcast, among others. I've delivered keynotes and speeches for TED, the State Department, the World Bank, the Munich Security Conference, RSA, the Council on Foreign Relations, World Affairs Council, Metropolitan Club, the Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development, In-Q-Tel, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Defense Policy Advisors, the ISC2 Security Congress and the CISO Summit. I regularly guest lecture at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. I am a graduate of Princeton (B.A.), Stanford (M.A.). In my spare time, I mom and jump out of helicopters with Chugach Powder Guides.