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Tanisha Austin

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Lead Information Security Governance and Risk Analyst at TIAA
📍 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Tanisha Austin is a transformational cybersecurity leader at TIAA with a decade of experience in enterprise security and risk governance. An alumnus of Point Park University with a CompTIA Security+ certification, she is passionate about researching emerging threats and aspires to become a CISO.

Outside of her cybersecurity career, Tanisha is a self-proclaimed foodie who loves to travel. She finds balance through creative pursuits like writing poetry and painting, and has recently embraced meditation for personal wellbeing. She hopes to one day live by the beach, which she considers her happy place.

Unique fact: In her free time, Tanisha is a poet and painter, using creative arts to complement her technical career.

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Lead Information Security Governance and Risk Analyst
Job Level
Middle
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Priorities

Topics Tanisha cares about

AI Governance
An advocate for AI and automation, she focuses on governing data, taming AI complexity, and managing innovation risk, as discussed in her recent conference attendance.
Emerging Cyber Threats
Found her passion for researching emerging threats early in her career and was a keynote speaker on the topic for The WICT Network.
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Career

Work history

11-2023
Lead Information Security Governance and Risk Analyst
TIAA
7-2022 - 7-2023
Threat Intelligence Analyst
Discover Financial Services
3-2022 - 5-2022
Technical Writer - Cybersecurity
Microsoft
5-2021 - 3-2022
Cybersecurity Writer
Proofpoint Security Awareness Training
6-2018 - 5-2021
Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
PNC
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Education
2010 - 2011
MBA
Point Park University
2008 - 2010
Bachelor
Point Park University
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