Brief Bio
Quiessence is a transformational leader, whose strategies and execution has helped build impactful and innovative teams in the Cybersecurity industry. With 17 years of experience spanning private and public sector, she brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to her work. She also brings her inspirational and unique teaching style to a large body of students through her role as an adjunct professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and co-founder of non-profit EdTech, JOURNi.
Quiessence’s leadership, in her role as Deputy CISO for the City of New York, yielded the first of its kind centralized Threat Management program for a municipality. She is now making Security AWSome @ the largest cloud provider - Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Quiessence has been recognized as “Best of New York” by City Tech Foundation, published in “Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime”, “Tribe of Hackers: Blue Team Edition”, “97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know”, and awarded Security Team of the Year for public sector by FireEye.
Her personal motto is “Polished Exterior, Techie Interior”.
For more information about her, visit https://itsquiessence.com
Twitter: @itsquiessence | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quiessencephillips
