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Cybersecurity strategist & AI defense expert

Tarah Wheeler

Tarah Wheeler helps organizations defend against AI-enabled cyber threats and nation-state attacks. As Chief Security Officer at TPO Group and Oxford doctoral candidate, Tarah delivers cybersecurity strategy, incident response expertise, and practical AI defense frameworks. Former Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow, Senate witness, NATO keynote speaker.

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  • Cybersecurity executive and AI researcher
  • Chief Security Officer and Oxford doctoral candidate
  • Bestselling author of Women in Tech
Tarah Wheeler is a cybersecurity executive and AI researcher who bridges the gap between nation-state cyber conflict and practical digital defence for organizations navigating an increasingly hostile threat landscape. Wheeler serves as Chief Security Officer at TPO Group, focusing on nation-state incident response and critical infrastructure protection. She is a doctoral candidate at Oxford's Internet Institute, a former Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and author of the best-selling Women in Tech. She has testified before the US Senate and keynoted for NATO CyCon. Tarah's work sits at the intersection of AI, international security, and corporate risk. Drawing on research at Oxford's Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict and her experience leading offensive security at Splunk and engineering at Symantec, she translates complex threats into language executives and technical teams can act on. Her insights help leaders understand how AI-enabled attacks work and how to build defences that match the speed of modern threats. Audiences leave her sessions with a clear framework for responding to phishing and social engineering at scale, specific strategies for using AI tools defensively rather than fearing them, and a realistic picture of how nation-state tactics trickle down to target everyday businesses. Book Tarah Wheeler when your audience needs cybersecurity guidance that is both technically credible and immediately actionable.

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Wheeler translates nation-state cyber tactics into actionable defence strategies, drawing on her CSO role at TPO Group and Oxford research to help leadership teams understand how AI-enabled attacks target their infrastructure and what specific countermeasures actually work at scale.

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