Company: McAfee, part of Intel Security, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Entry Submitted By: Zeno Group
Company Description: McAfee, part of Intel Security and a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel Corp. (NASDAQ:INTC), empowers businesses, the public sector, and home users to safely experience the benefits of the Internet. The company delivers proactive and proven security solutions and services for systems, networks, and mobile devices around the world.
Nomination Category: Individual Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Woman of the Year - Technology

Nomination Title: Michelle Dennedy, Changing the Way the World Sees Privacy & Security

Describe for the judges the activities and accomplishments of the nominated woman since the beginning of July last year (up to 525 words):

In the past two years, security has become an important topic of discussion as it relates to current technology, as well as developing technology. Not only that, but as major data and security breaches continue to effect large companies, consumers and businesses alike are looking to companies like McAfee for help and guidance on how to protect themselves. As a woman in the world of security, Michelle Dennedy has lead the charge of making privacy and security top of mind for consumers and businesses. Through founding her own organization to writing her first book and speaking on major news channels about the latest industry trends, Michelle continues to drive conversations and provide call to action in the security landscape topic.

In May 2011, Michelle founded The iDennedy Project, a public service organization to address privacy needs in sensitive populations, such as children and the elderly. Michelle is also the founder and editor in chief of a new media site—TheIdentityProject.com—started as an advocacy and education site, currently focused on the growing crime of Child ID theft.

Michelle is also a sought-after and provocative public speaker, evangelizing new approaches and business justifications for soundly-defined, transparent security and privacy policies and systems that protect healthy, safe global businesses. Over the years Michelle has spoken at conference including InternetWeek, Churchill Club, RSA and Identity Theft Summit. This year, Michelle has authored and published her first book titled, “The Privacy Engineer’s Manifesto: Getting from Policy to Code to QA to Value.”

Michelle continues to drive conversations in the technology and privacy spaces. She has become a go to source for comments and interviews by national broadcast stations including CNBC, NBC and Bloomberg TV. As a public figure in both her local community, as well as national community, Michelle drives awareness of personal security and privacy by sharing tips and best practices for consumers and businesses to stay safe, as well as being an advocate through authoring blog posts and appearing on national television.

In 2009, she was awarded the Goodwin Procter-IAPP Vanguard award for lifetime achievement and the EWF – CSO Magazine Woman of Influence award for work in the privacy and security fields.

Throughout her career, Michelle has continued to be pave the way for women in the field of technology and security. Her devotion and advocacy to making the digital world a safer place for consumer and businesses has shown through her entrepreneurial ventures, speaking engagements and work within McAfee.

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Provide a brief biography of the nominated woman (up to 125 words):

Michelle Finneran Dennedy serves as VP and Chief Privacy Officer at McAfee. She is responsible for the development and implementation of McAfee data privacy policies and practices, working across business groups to drive data privacy excellence across the security continuum. Prior to McAfee, she was the Vice President for Security & Privacy Solutions for the Oracle Corporation. Before the Oracle acquisition of Sun, Michelle was Chief Data Governance Officer within the Cloud Computing division at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Michelle worked closely with Sun's business, technical and legal teams to create the best data governance policies and processes possible for cloud computing in order to build trust for cloud environments through vendor transparency.