Parisa Tabriz

Parisa Tabriz was born in 1983 to an Iranian father, a doctor, and a Polish-American mother, a nurse. She grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and is the older sister of two brothers. Tabriz was not exposed to coding and computer science until her first year at university.{{Cite web |title=Meet Google's Security Princess |url=http://www.elle.com/culture/tech/a14652/google-parisa-tabriz-profile/ |author=Clare Malone |work=Elle |date=July 8, 2014 |access-date=January 5, 2016 }}

Tabriz initially enrolled at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign to study computer engineering, but soon became interested in coding and computer science.{{cite web |url=https://ai.google/research/people/author36241 |title=Parisa Tabriz |publisher=Google AI |access-date=September 8, 2018 }} She completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree at the university{{cite web |title=CS @ Illinois Alumna, and Google's Security Princess |url=http://cs.illinois.edu/news/cs-illnois-alumna-and-google’s-security-princess |access-date=July 15, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719012701/http://cs.illinois.edu/news/cs-illnois-alumna-and-google%E2%80%99s-security-princess |archive-date=July 19, 2014 |url-status=dead }} and did research in wireless security and attacks on privacy-enhancing technologies, co-authoring papers with her advisor Nikita Borisov.{{cite journal|title=Passive Data Link Layer 802.11 Wireless Device Driver Fingerprinting |author1=Jason Franklin |author-link=Jason Franklin |author2=Damon McCoy |author2-link=Damon McCoy |author3=Parisa Tabriz |display-editors=etal |date=2006 |journal=Usenix-Ss'06 |publisher=USENIX |pages=167–178 |location=Berkeley, California |url=https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec06/tech/full_papers/franklin/franklin_html/index.html |access-date=October 4, 2014 }}{{cite book |chapter=Breaking the Collusion Detection Mechanism of MorphMix |date=2006 |location=Cambridge |chapter-url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166542 |author1=Parisa Tabriz |title=Privacy Enhancing Technologies |author2=Nikita Borisov |author2-link=Nikita Borisov |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141004215720/http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2166542 |archive-date=October 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |editor1=George Danezis |editor-link=George Danezis |editor2=Philippe Golle |editor2-link=Philippe Golle |work=Privacy Enhancing Technologies. PET 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science |volume=4258 |pages=368–383 |doi=10.1007/11957454_21 |access-date=October 4, 2014 |series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |isbn=978-3-540-68790-0 }} She was an active member of a student club interested in computer security, which she joined because her own website was hacked.

Tabriz was offered a summer internship with Google's security team while at college,{{Cite magazine |title=With Any Luck, This Googler Will Turn More Girls Into Hackers |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/08/with-any-luck-this-googler-will-turn-more-girls-into-hackers/ |author=Cade Metz |magazine=Wired |date=August 26, 2014 |access-date=January 5, 2016 }} and joined the company a few months after her graduation in 2007.{{cite web |url=http://www.60secondrecap.com/parisa-tabriz-google-security-princess/ |title=Parisa Tabriz, Google security, talks about college |author=Peter Osterlund |work=60second Recap |date=October 10, 2013 |access-date=August 10, 2014 }} While preparing to attend a conference in Tokyo with Google, she decided to use the job title "Security Princess" on her business card rather than the conventional "information security engineer" since it sounded less boring and considered it ironic. Tabriz trained Google staff interested in learning more about security and worked with youth at DEFCON and Girl Scouts of the USA to expose a more diverse set of people to the field of computer security.{{Cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/13/tech/parisa-tabriz-security-princess-google-hack/ |title=The cyber warrior 'princess' who guards Google |author=Sheena McKenzie |publisher=CNN |date=March 17, 2015 |access-date=January 5, 2018 }}{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/08/with-any-luck-this-googler-will-turn-more-girls-into-hackers/|title=With Any Luck, This Googler Will Turn More Girls Into Hackers|last=Metz|first=Cade|date=2014-08-26|magazine=Wired|access-date=2020-01-05|issn=1059-1028}}

In 2013, Tabriz took over responsibility for the security of Google Chrome. Tabriz presented the talk "Got SSL?" at the Chrome Dev Summit{{Citation|title=Got SSL? - Chrome Dev Summit 2013 (Parisa Tabriz)| date=December 4, 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ8EX61fFWQ|language=en|access-date=2021-10-06}} and led an effort to drive adoption of the HTTPS protocol.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/11/googles-chrome-hackers-flip-webs-security-model/|title=Google's Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security|last=Greenberg|first=Andy|date=2016-11-04|magazine=Wired|access-date=2020-01-03|issn=1059-1028}}{{Cite journal|last=Schechter|first=Emily|date=2017|title=Inside "MOAR TLS:" How We Think about Encouraging External HTTPS Adoption on the Web|url=https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2017/conference-program/presentation/schechter|language=en}} In 2015, less than 50% of traffic seen by Chrome was over HTTPS, and by 2019, the percentage of HTTPS traffic had increased to 73-95% across all platforms.{{Cite web|url=https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview?hl=en|title=Google Transparency Report|website=transparencyreport.google.com|access-date=2020-01-03}} Tabriz has spoken out against government interception of HTTPS connections on the public Internet.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49421729|title=Google and Mozilla move to stop Kazakhstan 'snooping'|date=2019-08-21|access-date=2020-01-05|language=en-GB}}

In 2016, Tabriz took over responsibility for Project Zero, an offensive security research group dedicated to finding zero day vulnerabilities and reducing the harm caused by targeted attacks.{{Cite web|url=https://blog.google/perspectives/parisa-tabriz/optimistic-dissatisfaction-status-quo-security/|title=Optimistic dissatisfaction with the status quo of security|last=Tabriz|first=Parisa|date=September 11, 2018}}

In 2018, Tabriz was the keynote speaker at Black Hat Conference and emphasized the need to tackle the root cause of security issues, invest and celebrate progress on long-arc projects, and build out coalitions beyond security experts.{{Citation|title=Black Hat USA 2018 Keynote: Parisa Tabriz| date=August 8, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py2qmGbyhlw|language=en|access-date=2021-10-06}}{{Cite web|url=https://blog.google/perspectives/parisa-tabriz/optimistic-dissatisfaction-status-quo-security/|title=Optimistic dissatisfaction with the status quo of security|last=Tabriz|first=Parisa|date=September 11, 2018}} That same year, in response to the RSA Conference having only one non-male keynote speaker in a line-up of 20 keynotes, Tabriz co-founded the Our Security Advocates conference, OURSA. In only five days, Tabriz and organizers pulled together a speaker line-up consisting of expert speakers from under-represented backgrounds, 14 speakers of which were women.{{Cite news |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/07/oursa_women_in_infosec_conference/ |title=Women of Infosec call bullsh*t on RSA's claim it could only find one female speaker |author=Iain Thomson |work=The Register |date=March 7, 2008 |access-date=March 8, 2018 }}

In 2020, Tabriz became head of Product and Engineering for Google Chrome.{{Cite web|last=Tabriz|first=Parisa|title=Parisa Tabriz|url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/parisatabriz/|access-date=October 6, 2021|website=LinkedIn}}

• Fortune: 40 under 40 list (2018){{Cite web|url=https://fortune.com/40-under-40/2019/parisa-tabriz|title=Fortune 40 under 40: Parisa Tabriz|website=Fortune|language=en|access-date=2019-12-07}}
• Wired's 20 Tech Visionaries Creating the Future list (2017){{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2017/04/20-people-creating-future-next-list-2017/|title=Next List 2017: 20 Tech Visionaries You Should Have Heard of by Now|author=Wired Staff|date=2017-04-25|magazine=Wired|access-date=2019-12-07|language=en-US|issn=1059-1028}}
• Forbes Top 30 People Under 30 To Watch in the Technology Industry list (2012){{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-under-30_tech.html|title=30 Under 30 — Tech|author1=Victoria Barret|author2=Connie Guglielmo|date=July 30, 2014|work=Forbes|access-date=August 10, 2014}}

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