#MIWIC2024: Jennifer Fernick, Senior Staff Security Engineer, Encryption Lead, Google

Organised by Eskenzi PR in media partnership with the IT Security Guru, the Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards aim to shed light on the remarkable women in our industry. The following is a feature on one of 2024’s Top 20 women selected by an esteemed panel of judges. Presented in a Q&A format, the nominee’s answers are written in their own words with minor edits made by the editor for readability and where relevant, supplemented with additional commentary by their nominator.


In 2024, the awards were sponsored by BTThink Cybersecurity Ltd. and Plexal, with Eskenzi PR, Assured and Women in Cybersecurity UK & Ireland Affiliate as partners.


What does your job role entail?

Currently, I am a Senior Staff Security Engineer at Google. As the tech lead for cryptography in our Trusted Infrastructure Services group at Google Cloud, I work on things like identifying strategic security choices we can make to improve systems at scale, proposing new engineering designs for new or existing products, designing or optimizing secure implementations of cryptography on planet-scale distributed systems, driving technical consensus on critical engineering decisions, mentoring the tech leads of specific subfields, or serving as the technical expert on security and cryptography within my team, so that the other amazing engineers that I work with can seek out my advice to help strengthen their own work. I also get to do things like advise customer CISOs on how to defend against advanced adversaries, work on global technology standards, and lead large, ..

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