Allie Mellen is a computer engineer by training who has spent the past decade in engineering, research, and technical consulting roles at multiple venture-backed startups, as well as research roles at MIT and BU. She ran an engineering and development consultancy for a number of years and she also worked with multiple nonprofits to teach engineering and entrepreneurship to students and minorities. She got started in security as a hacker researching vulnerabilities in hardware devices, which culminated in a talk at Black Hat USA. Now, she is a principal analyst on the security and risk team at Forrester, where she covers security operations. She is a frequent speaker at security conferences globally teaching about security and pushing the boundaries of the industry.