Parisa Tabriz is an Iranian-American
computer security
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expert who works for
Google
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as a Vice President of engineering. She chose the title "Security Princess" on her business card.
Early life
Parisa Tabriz was born to an
Iranian
Iranian may refer to:
* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
father, a doctor, and an American mother, a nurse, of
Polish-American
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descent.
She grew up in the suburbs of
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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and is the older sister of two brothers.
Tabriz was not exposed to coding and computer science until her first year at university.
Education
Tabriz initially enrolled at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...
to study computer engineering, but soon became interested in computer science instead.
She completed a bachelor of science and master of science degree at the university
and did research in wireless security and attacks on privacy-enhancing technologies, co-authoring papers with her advisor
Nikita Borisov
Nikita Borisov is a cryptographer and computer security researcher, currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His notable work includes one of the first cryptanalyses of the WEP wireless encryptio ...
.
She was an active member of a student club interested in computer security, which she joined because her own website was hacked.
Career
Tabriz was offered a summer internship with Google's security team while at college, and joined the company a few months after her graduation in 2007.
While preparing to attend a conference in Tokyo with Google, she decided to use the job title "Security Princess" on her business card rather than the conventional "information security engineer" since it sounded less boring and considered it ironic.
Tabriz trained Google staff interested in learning more about security and worked with youth at
DEFCON
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The DEFCON system was developed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and unified and spe ...
and
Girl Scouts of the USA
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to expose a more diverse set of people to the field of computer security.
In 2013, Tabriz took over responsibility for the security of
Google Chrome
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.
In 2013, Tabriz conducted the talk "Got SSL?" at the Chrome Dev Summit.
In 2014, Tabriz started an effort to drive adoption of the
HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). It is used for secure communication over a computer network, and is widely used on the Internet. In HTTPS, the communication protocol is enc ...
protocol. In 2015, less than 50% of traffic seen by Chrome was over HTTPS, and by 2019, the percentage of HTTPS traffic had increased to 73-95% across all platforms. Tabriz has spoken out against government interception of HTTPS connections on the public Internet.
In 2014 Tabriz conducted the talk "Do Know Evil" at the Chrome Developers Conference.
In 2016, Tabriz took over responsibility for
Project Zero
Project Zero is a team of security analysts employed by Google tasked with finding zero-day vulnerabilities. It was announced on 15 July 2014.
History
After finding a number of flaws in software used by many end-users while researching other p ...
, an offensive security research group.
In 2016 Tabriz was the keynote speaker at the
Python Conference
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(PyCon) in
Portland, Oregon
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.
In 2018, Tabriz was the keynote speaker at
Black Hat Conference
Black Hat Briefings (commonly referred to as Black Hat) is a computer security conference that provides security consulting, training, and briefings to hackers, corporations, and government agencies around the world. Black Hat brings together a ...
.
In 2018, in response to the
RSA Conference
The RSA Conference is a series of IT security conferences. Approximately 45,000 people attend one of the conferences each year. It was founded in 1991 as a small cryptography conference. RSA conferences take place in the United States, Europe, Asia ...
having only one non-male
keynote speaker
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in a line-up of 20 keynotes, Tabriz co-founded the Our Security Advocates conference, OURSA. In only five days, Tabriz and organizers pulled together a speaker line-up consisting of expert speakers from under-represented backgrounds, 14 speakers of which were women.
In 2020, Tabriz became head of product, Engineering, & UX, Chrome.
Recognition
In 2012, ''
Forbes
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'' included her in their "Top 30 People Under 30 To Watch in the Technology Industry" list.
In 2017, ''
Wired
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'' included her in their list of 20 Tech Visionaries.
In 2018, ''
Fortune
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'' included her in their annual "40 under 40" most influence young people in business list.
References
External links
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Parisa Tabrizon Google AI
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1983 births
Living people
Google employees
American people of Iranian descent
American people of Polish descent
People associated with computer security
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
People in information technology