Wendi Whitmore — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Chief Security Intelligence Officer at Palo Alto Networks, supporting Fortune 500 organizations and senior government cyber leaders.
Inaugural Member of the presidentially appointed DHS Cyber Safety Review Board.
Advises the Duke University M.S. in Cybersecurity and University of San Diego M.S. in Cyber Engineering on curriculum and workforce development.
Launched Unit 42's next chapter in 2021, building it into a 500-person global force in incident response, threat intelligence, and MDR.
Previously built the federal services team for Mandiant, scaled CrowdStrike Services from inception, and unified IBM Security's X-Force portfolio.
Began her career as a Special Agent with the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, leading cyber crime and counterintelligence operations.

Biography

Wendi Whitmore is the Chief Security Intelligence Officer at Palo Alto Networks, where she is responsible for converting real-time intelligence into enterprise-wide risk decisions. In this role, she supports Fortune 500 organizations and senior government cyber leaders globally.