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Rinki Sethi

Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Upwind

San Francisco Bay Area

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About

Rinki Sethi is Chief Security & Strategy Officer at Upwind Security and a founding partner at Lockstep. She has previously served as VP and CISO at Twitter, Rubrik, and BILL, and held security leadership roles at companies including IBM, PG&E, Walmart.com, eBay, Intuit, and Palo Alto Networks. Sethi has also served as a board member at StrongDM, ForgeRock, and Vaultree, and has more than 20 years of experience across product security, security education, and security operations.

Experience

  1. Upwind SecurityChief Security & Strategy Officer (CISO)current2025 — present
  2. LockstepFounding Partnercurrent2024 — present
  3. Dark ReadingAdvisory Board Membercurrent2023 — present
  4. StrongDMMember Board of Directors2025 — 2026
  5. VaultreeMember Board of Directors2023 — 2026
  6. BILLVP, CISO & CIO2022 — 2025
  7. apisec.aiAdvisor2020 — 2024
  8. OneProsper InternationalBoard Member2020 — 2024
  9. Living SecurityAdvisor2022 — 2023
  10. ForgeRockMember Board of Directors2021 — 2023
  11. OortAdvisor2020 — 2023
  12. neosec.comAdvisor2021 — 2023
  13. PropeloAdvisor2019 — 2023
  14. AuthomizeAdvisor2020 — 2022
  15. SVCI - Silicon Valley CISO InvestmentsInvestor2019 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
  16. TwitterVP & CISO2020 — 2022
  17. Rubrik, Inc.VP & CISO2019 — 2020Palo Alto, California
  18. SecureWorldBoard Advisor2012 — 2019Santa Clara, CA
  19. IBMVice President, Information Security2018 — 2019San Jose, California
  20. Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS)Board Member2017 — 2018

Skills & more

Enterprise Software56SharePoint2Information Security99Security99Network Security99Cloud Computing86Vulnerability Assessment41Information Security Management28Information Technology34PCI DSS17Application Security22Vulnerability Management19
+12 moreCISSPSecurity Architecture DesignSDLCSecurity PolicyRisk AssessmentISO 27001Software DevelopmentPenetration TestingCloud SecurityCISAComputer SecurityStrategy

Languages English · Gujarati · Hindi · Spanish

  • Certified Ethical Hacker — Tech Train
  • ICP - ICAgile Certified Professional — ICAgile
  • Information Assurance Methodology Certified — National Security Agency
  • GSEC — SANS Institute
  • CISA — ISACA
  • CISSP — ISC2

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Who is Rinki Sethi?
Rinki Sethi is Chief Security & Strategy Officer at Upwind Security and a founding partner at Lockstep. She has previously served as VP and CISO at Twitter, Rubrik, and BILL, and held security leadership roles at companies including IBM, PG&E, Walmart.com, eBay, Intuit, and Palo Alto Networks. Sethi has also served as a board member at StrongDM, ForgeRock, and Vaultree, and has more than 20 years of experience across product security, security education, and security operations.
Where did Rinki Sethi go to school?
Rinki Sethi studied at University of California, Davis (B.S., Computer Science Engineering); Capella University (M.S., Information Security); Stanford University (Turning Strategy into Action).

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