14 Facts About Parisa Tabriz

Parisa Tabriz is an American engineer, computer security expert, and executive working for Google as a Vice President and General Manager of Google Chrome.

Parisa Tabriz is known professionally by her semi-official job title, "Security Princess".

Parisa Tabriz was born in 1983 to an Iranian father, a doctor, and a Polish-American mother, a nurse.

Parisa Tabriz grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and is the older sister of two brothers.

Parisa Tabriz completed a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree at the university and did research in wireless security and attacks on privacy-enhancing technologies, co-authoring papers with her advisor Nikita Borisov.

Parisa Tabriz was an active member of a student club interested in computer security, which she joined because her own website was hacked.

Parisa Tabriz was offered a summer internship with Google's security team while at college, and joined the company a few months after her graduation in 2007.

Parisa 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.

In 2013, Parisa Tabriz took over responsibility for the security of Google Chrome.

Parisa Tabriz has spoken out against government interception of HTTPS connections on the public Internet.

In 2016, Parisa 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.

In 2018, Parisa 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.

That same year, in response to the RSA Conference having only one non-male keynote speaker in a line-up of 20 keynotes, Parisa Tabriz co-founded the Our Security Advocates conference, OURSA.

In 2020, Parisa Tabriz became head of Product and Engineering for Google Chrome.