Talha Tariq

Talha Tariq is the CISO at Anki, a consumer robotics and AI company where he leads security and privacy engineering efforts. He has 15 years of experience building and scaling security programs from startups to large Fortune 100 organizations. Previously he was CISO for FinancialForce, Director of Security Consulting at PwC, and has held various security engineering and leadership positions at Microsoft and NCR. He has broad security and privacy engineering experience and patents building trusted platforms for cloud and IoT devices. He has also led variety of engagements around the world, advising clients, across a range of industries, on matters related to significant sensitive data breaches, intellectual property thefts, hacking events, forensic investigations, security program development, security operations, threat and vulnerability assessments. Talha holds a BS in Computer Science & MS in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London.