Online Open Office: Meet the Security Team at SmartNews (US/JP Joint Event!)
About this event
The Security Team at SmartNews plays a vital role in safeguarding the security of both our daily operations and our product. During this online event, we’ll hear from our Head of Security Matt Honea from our US office and security engineer Katherine Mansourimoaied from our Japan office about how their work, including success stories and future challenges, their reasons for joining SmartNews, and why SmartNews is a great place to work as a security engineer.
We recommend this event for people who:
・are security engineers interested in joining a new team in a rapidly-growing tech unicorn
・want to learn more about SmartNews’ approach to matters of cyber security
・feel passionate for our company mission of delivering news stories that matter to the people who need it
Open Security Engineering Positions at SmartNews
Tokyo, Japan
Software Engineer, Data Platform
San Francisco, CA
Palo Alto, CA
What’s an Online Open Office?
Similar to an open day at a school or university, our Online Open Office series is a chance to meet screen-to-screen with people from SmartNews. We highlight one team per open office, providing them the opportunity to go deep on topics about their work and life at SmartNews. You can also get answers to your questions either by asking in advance on the registration page or during the event using the chat feature.
This event is an excellent event for anyone who wants to learn more about SmartNews, especially those actively interviewing or considering applying for a position!
Speakers
Matt Honea
Head of Security
Matt Honea joined SmartNews last year and is a native of California and based in San Francisco, USA. He is a former US Diplomat and worked extensively in the areas of threat intelligence, network defense, malware analysis, and physical security. Matt was previously Senior Director of CyberSecurity at Guidewire Software where he led product and cloud security, and also has worked in the cyber insurance industry and for the US Government.
Katherine Mansourimoaied
Security Engineer
Katherine Mansourimoaied joined SmartNews in 2020 and is based in Tokyo. Previously she worked at Atlassian, Google, and Synopsys, working closely with product security, incident response, and malware research. Prior to joining SmartNews she worked on the red team at Atlassian performing APT simulation. She also has worked extensively on IoT/cloud security.
Notes
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In order to make our sessions as in-depth as possible, we ask that you refrain from posting the content of the sessions on social networking sites (but you are welcome to post your thoughts!).
The event will be recorded, but please be assured that it will only be viewed within the company and will not be shared with outside parties.
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