< Return to previous page

Nicole Perlroth

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Author, Investor and Advisor
Nicole Perlroth spent a decade as the lead cybersecurity reporter at The New York Times. Her investigations rooted out Russian hacks of nuclear plants, airports, elections, and petrochemical plants; North Korea’s cyberattack against Sony Pictures, Bangladesh 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. 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.” The book was optioned by Tommy Schlamme for FX Networks and several of her Times articles have been optioned for television. 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, NBC’s “Meet The Press,” “The Rachel Maddow Show,” “Dan Rather’s America,” Axios, CBS, CNBC, and Lawfare, as well as 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, How To Academy, In-Q-Tel, Track ii Diplomacy, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation Defense Policy Advisors, Hack the Capitol, the Center for European Policy Analysis and the CIOSExchange, an invite-only gathering of Fortune 50 Chief Information Officers. She also lectures at Stanford, including the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Princeton University, Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, Harvard Kennedy School, Hult International Business School, The Fletcher School, Naval War College, Fordham Law, Berkeley, John Hopkins and was selected as the inaugural “Journalist in Residence” for the University of Texas Strauss World Affairs program. Ms. Perlroth is a graduate of Princeton University (B.A.), Stanford University (M.A.).

Read Full Bio

Nicole Perlroth

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Author, Investor and Advisor