Preeti Ravindra

BIO

Preeti solves security problems with AI and software as appropriate. Her research interest spans forward looking AI for security as well as security for AI. She has successfully developed and operationalized AI solutions for security in threat detection and automation. Her value proposition is working cross-functionally across product, engineering, security and legal teams to deliver business value with AI solutions.

Preeti is currently building out a program to proactively secure AI and mitigate AI risks. She is a speaker at leading security conferences like BSides and WiCyS. She gives back to the community by serving on program committes for WiCyS, CAMLIS and Executive Women’s Forum and advancing women to more senior roles through mentoring. She holds a Masters Degree with a cybersecurity specialization from Carnegie Mellon University.

COMMUNITY

My contributions and service to the security and AI community by lending my expertise and mentorship

CONFERENCES

LEADERSHIP

• I produced content for the NextExec Podcast Season 3 in the role of co-lead of Executive Women’s Forum’s podcast team. I also hosted several accomplished leaders in Season 2 and Season 3
• I interviewed security professionals from different fields in security for BSidesNYC 2023 that was coming back from a hiatus since 2018

MEDIA

Coverage of my research, work projects and my profile

PRESS

Data Privacy Week - An interview style news article about data privacy challenges from a data science and security perspective and

TV/STREAMING

• Darkweb: Fighting Cybercrime - This documentary was produced by Discovery Channel and aired on the Science Channel featuring the technological advances in solving cybercrime. I appeared in the documentary to speak about how Aritificial Intelligence can be leveraged to augment security professionals in fighting cybercrime

PODCASTS

• Emerging Voice of Humans of InfoSec - I talk about my career journey in doing AI for Cybersecurity
• Scuba Gear Required: A Deeper Dive into AI/ML/DL - Specific applications and use cases of AI for security
• Keeping it Real About Artificial Intelligence - 101 for security practitioners

RESEARCH

My research is at the intersection of security, data science and machine learning

Google Scholar Profile

PATENTS

• Security Incident Disposition Predictions Based on cognitive evaluation of security knowledge graphs
• Inferring Temporal Relationships for Cybersecurity Events
• Exploit Kit Detection

TALKS

SECURITY

Date	Event	Media	Summary
Dec 2024	Qualys LLM Risk Series		Risk Mitigation for AI with Secure Development Lifecycle
Aug 2024	BSidesLV 2024: AI in the Human Loop		Effects on human workflows before and after deploying generative AI solutions
Sep 2023	BSides RDU: The AI Goldilocks Priciple for SecOps		When is AI too much, too little, just right for your SecOps
Apr 2023	BSides NYC 0x03		Interviewing Security Practitioners
Jul 2022	BSidesPGH: Clippy or SkyNet for your SOC		Applying machine learning for SecOps
Oct 2017	Executive Women’s Forum Annual Conference: Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack		Research on initial access of ransomware
Aug 2017	Kennesaw State University: Watson for Cybersecurity		AI for Cybersecurity

DATA SCIENCE, ML, AI

Date	Event	Media	Summary
Mar 2024	Carnegie Mellon Industry Speaker		Industy Applications of AI in Security
Dec 2022	INSAID Data Science Academy Talk		How to start using data skills today
Oct 2022	PMI Metrolina: Managing Data Science Projects		How project managers should get involved in data science projects