Laura Posey

Ms. Laura Posey is a Senior Security Strategist in the Global Security Strategy and Diplomacy (GSSD) team at Microsoft, which focuses on driving strategic change, both within Microsoft and externally, to advance cyber security and resiliency. In her role, Ms. Posey draws upon her 12+ years of experience in the technology space to address global challenges related to information assurance and security policy and standards with a special focus on the challenges of government organizations worldwide. Ms. Posey is a strong voice representing Microsoft in the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) on issues representing both consumers and providers of Cloud services and technology and a supporting member of SAFECODE, addressing supply chain integrity best practices.

Prior to joining the GSSD team, Ms. Posey worked in engineering organizations at Microsoft, most notably on the BitLocker Drive Encryption product and on the Next Generation Secure Computing Base project (NGSCB), which also incorporated TPM technologies. Ms. Posey's role within these organizations included interfacing with government information assurance organizations worldwide disseminating forensics and cryptography details for the products to these organizations. Ms. Posey was awarded 2 patents for her work in these technologies.

In her early days at Microsoft, Ms. Posey led program management teams at msn.com and its predecessor, sidewalk.com, drawing on her design and user experience background in building online applications for Charles Schwab and Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco, CA.

Prior to her career in technology, Ms. Posey worked for the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbusho) in Hokkaido, Japan, serving as a Ministry representative to the local Board of Education and liaison to the local mayor's office. Her duties included English education, written and verbal translation for several local government offices, and assistance in the town's foreign exchange programs with Australia and Canada.

Ms. Posey holds a Bachelors of Arts in both Asian Studies and Communications from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.