Nicole Perlroth spent a decade as the lead cybersecurity reporter at The New York Times, where her investigations rooted out Russian hacks of nuclear plants, airports, elections, and petrochemical plants; North Korea’s cyberattack against Sony, banks and crypto exchanges; Iranian attacks on oil companies, banks and dams; and thousands of Chinese cyberattacks against American businesses, including leading the investigation of the months-long Chinese hack of The Times. Her outing of hacking divisions within China’s PLA compelled the first United States hacking charges against the Chinese military and earned her the prestigious “Best in Business Award” from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She left the Times in 2021 to join the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity Advisory Committee (CISAC).

She is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends,” about the global cyber arms race, which won the McKinsey and Financial Times’ 2021 “Business Book of the Year Award” and the 2022 Arthur Ross “Foreign Policy Book of the Year” Bronze Prize. The book (Bloomsbury) was inducted into the Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame, and optioned for scripted television (FX) and documentary film (MediaRes).

Ms. Perlroth has been widely cited and published, beyond The Times in 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.

She has 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, CIOSExchange, an invite-only gathering of Fortune 50 CIOs and CISOs.

She lectures at Stanford, including the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Princeton University, Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard Law School, Hult International, The Fletcher School, Naval Academy, John Hopkins and was selected as the inaugural “Journalist in Residence” for the University of Texas Strauss World Affairs program.

She has advised and invested in more than a dozen cyber startups.

Ms. Perlroth is a graduate of Princeton (B.A.), Stanford (M.A.).