Swati Handa is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and a Product leader at Cisco responsible for the Security and Privacy portfolio@Cisco NetAcad. Before Cisco, she worked for American Express as a Security Architect. Swati is an IT engineer and holds a Master's degree in Information Management from Arizona State University and a Master's in Software Security from Stanford University. She sits on the board of several non-profits and government initiatives in the US to bridge the skills gap and promote women in cybersecurity. She has also authored several vendor-neutral cybersecurity certifications as a way to give back her good fortune to others.