Monica Verma

Hacker, CISO; Founder & CEO of Cyber Foyer & Monica Talks Cyber; Multiple Award-Winner & Top-50 Women in Tech

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Monica Verma Biography

Monica Verma, a 3x CISO and a dynamic and effective leader, with a profound passion for technology, people, and businesses, is the founder and CEO of Cyber Foyer and MonicaTalksCyber. She is also the founder and author of the newsletter “The 10x Circle” that focuses on how to 10x your career and business on your terms. She dedicates herself to sharing insightful and practical knowledge on artificial intelligence, leadership, and cybersecurity with a global audience. Through her engaging and jargon-free storytelling, Verma simplifies complex concepts and sparks thought-provoking ideas based on her real-world experiences.

With her 20+ years of experience in technology, she is an award-winning leader, 2023 Top No. 3 CISO in EMEA and Top 50 Women in Tech. Through her various leadership and advisory roles, clear and simple communication, as well as close collaboration with executives and top management, she has led many security and digital transformation projects for global businesses.

In just a few years, Verma has grown her community from 500 to an impressive 33000+ followers and growing. Her podcast, "MonicaTalksCyber," has been downloaded around 15000 times in just its first two seasons, with the latest episodes of third season coming out soon, including her keynote on Navigating AI and cybercrime.

A leader, a futurist, an inspiring motivational speaker and storyteller, Verma is committed to dispelling myths and offering actionable tips on topics like AI, cybersecurity, privacy, leadership, and career growth, empowering listeners to enhance their personal and professional lives significantly.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 06/12/2024.

Monica Verma Speaking Topics

  • A Dive into The Seismic Shift in Cybersecurity

    From ransomware to cyber warfare, from Internet of Things (IoT) to Artificial Intelligence (AI), from driverless to autonomous, we are seeing a seismic shift in the digital and the threat landscape, cyber attacks and the overall risks. In this keynote, Monica shares a story of a 200 year old cyber attack and learnings from it.

    From the keynote, you'll take away learnings on following:

    • What are the top cyber trends and existential threats & risks to your business?
    • What is your true risk exposure and how to build a sustainable defense for that next cyberattack lurking around the corner?
    • How to better posture your organization in the age of convergence, uncertainty and staggering opportunities?

  • Hacking Your Career: From Hacker To CISO

    Cybersecurity has evolved from networks and servers, to include more than 30 sub-domains today, including the ever-increasing human factor and inter-personnel skills to it. No two journeys through cybersecurity are identical. It’s this diversity in the field today that’s both challenging but also highly rewarding.

    In this talk Monica shares:

    • Her incredible and fascinating journey from hacker to CISO, working with leaders and top management all across the world
    • Her biggest learnings that can help you build effective cybersecurity and an organization to truly support it
    • The key skills and principals that are needed to be a leader in this industry and build an effective security strategy

  • Surviving the Evolution of Cybercrime

    Like all crime throughout humanity, cybercrime is evolving. And like everything that’s technology fueled, cybercrime is evolving rapidly. As the analogy goes, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change.”

    In this keynote, Monica Verma talks about:

    • The story of the evolution of cybercrime over the last 200 years, especially in the last decades
    • Where cybercrime is heading, especially as it relates to a pandemic and kinetic wars
    • How can you as a business survive but also thrive through evolution of cybersecurity?

  • Manage Risks Fast, Fail Faster and Adapt Fastest

    As the pandemic unfolded in 2020, the society, particularly the critical sectors, saw a massive rise in cyberattacks. The nature of cyberattacks on finance, healthcare and other critical sectors varied greatly as the cyber risks and the overall risk profile evolved drastically. In this talk, Monica Verma, shares her experiences and learnings, as well as addresses the following aspects of cybersecurity along with examples, practical approach and adoption, applicable to different industries:

    • How did the pandemic affect the critical sectors and what was the true (real) impact of the pandemic?
    • How to manage both information and risks effectively within your industry, despite uncertainties?
    • What are key cybersecurity learnings from the pandemic, the cybersecurity lifecycle model and practical adoption?

  • Is The Cyber Talent Gap Real?

    Do we really have a talent shortage within cybersecurity? Here’s a popular complaint I hear very often in our industry: We do not have enough talent. At the same time, we have these extremely unrealistic list of skill sets that we are asking for various roles, especially the entry level ones. We have contributed to this so called talent shortage. It's only fair that we a part of the solution. But how do we do that in practical ways that can contribute to a positive ROI?

    In this talk, Monica shares:

    • The reality of the cyber talent shortage problem
    • Biggest myths in cybersecurity especially when it comes to people-aspect of security
    • Key practical but simple steps every organization can take to help reduce the talent gap and build an empire

Monica Verma Videos

  • A Dive into the Seismic Shift in Cybersecurity
  • Top 10 Hiring Mistakes in Technology and Cybersecurity
  • Keynote "Surviving The Evolution of Cybercrime"

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Monica Verma is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as A Dive into The Seismic Shift in Cybersecurity, Hacking Your Career: From Hacker To CISO, Surviving the Evolution of Cybercrime , Manage Risks Fast, Fail Faster and Adapt Fastest and Is The Cyber Talent Gap Real?. The estimated speaking fee range to book Monica Verma for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Monica Verma generally travels from Norway and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Katia Dean, Rachel Tobac, Peter Warmka, Prashanth Challa and Shamane Tan. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Monica Verma for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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