About me
Karen Reinhardt brings over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity into her role as Principal Engineer of PKI at The Home Depot. She started her Infosec careers in 1999 as a founding member of the Qwest Communications (CenturyLink) Information security team and since then, has served as Security Engineer, Security Manager, IAM SME, PKI Architect, Advanced Cyber Defense Consultant, CTO Director, and more for RSA Security, Bank of America, Verifone, and Entrust. Her unique perspective built from a career spanning early telco attacks to the modern world of APTs, breaches, and migrating to Cloud, Karen uses her experience to build her unique perspective on risk as it pertains to identity and data protection. This perspective combines with her drive to make cybersecurity more approachable as she enjoys finding creative solutions for our ever evolving cyber world.