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Cyber Defense

Learn about those that protect us and our Information

Local Cyber Defenders:
Jen Easterly
Jen Easterly works as the Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Global Head of the Morgan Stanley Cybersecurity Fusion Center. Her job includes detecting and responding to threats in Cyber Security that could cause possible harm to the firm. In February 2017, Easterly served on the National Security Council as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism. Here, she development of the U.S. counterterrorism and hostage policy. Jen retired from the U.S. Army after more than twenty years of service in intelligence and cyber operations, including tours of duty in Haiti, the Balkans, Iraq, and Afghanistan. She was also instrumental in the creation of United States Cyber Command. Later, Easterly moved to her current position working for Morgan Stanley. As Trustee of the Morgan Stanley Foundation, Jen serves on the Board of a non-profit dedicated to ending poverty known as Nuru International, and serves on the Board of the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to advocating the freedom of Americans held unjustly abroad. She is the 2018 recipient of the James W. Foley American Hostage Freedom Award.
Abigail Lefkowitz
Abby has been with Morgan Stanley for over 4 years, while mainly a WM AIDT working on data and analytics application and infrastructure teams. She has worked on fraud analytics, Next Best Action (NBA), and other data science projects. She recently joined the Cyber Analytics Research & Prototyping team, and her focus is mostly the cloud domain. Prior to joining MS, Abby worked for Lockheed Martin in Baltimore, MD as a consultant for DoD. She started out writing software for the Navy’s missile launchers and then to intelligence. Her skills are C++, Java, and JavaScript, and Python.
Esther Nwaka
Esther Nwaka is a software engineer in the Authentication Engineering team at Morgan Stanley. She is originally from Nigeria and a graduate of Computer Science and Biology from Smith College. Growing up in Nigeria, she witnessed the inequality women faced and attributed this partly to the cultural bias and the lack of financial independence of women in her community. She had since sort out ways to remediate this and she believes that technology can be used as a tool to empower women. In collaboration with her colleague at Morgan Stanley, she launched the African Women Global (AWG) Technology Initiative to encourage young girls to pursue careers in technology and provide support for women in technology in Africa communities.