33Tracy Z. Maleeff

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“Companies are busy hunting for unicorns when they really just need to stop and look at all the squirrels around them.”

Twitter: @InfoSecSherpa

Tracy Z. Maleeff is an information security analyst for the New York Times Company. She earned a master of library and information science degree from the University of Pittsburgh, as well as undergraduate degrees from Temple University (BA, magna cum laude) and Pennsylvania State University (AA). Tracy holds a SANS GIAC GSEC certification. As an InfoSecSherpa, Tracy is an active member of the InfoSec community and frequently shares her expert knowledge through her OSINT blog and InfoSec newsletter, in addition to Twitter. Tracy is a frequent presenter on a variety of topics and has given talks at DEF CON's Recon Village, DerbyCon, and several BSides events. In her past career as a librarian, Tracy earned the honor of being named a Fellow of the Special Libraries Association and has won the Dow Jones Innovate Award and the Wolters Kluwer Innovations in Law Librarianship Award. A native of the Philadelphia area, she lives and dies with its sports teams.

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