Lea Snyder is currently a Principal Security Engineer at Microsoft where she functions as a Security Architect focused on risk management, directly supporting the dCISO for Identity. She has over 20 years of experience in technology, focusing on information security and security adjacent domains for almost 10 years, working in Identity & Access Management, Application Security, and Security Architecture. Before joining Microsoft, she held technical roles at Akamai, Amazon, and Apple. She is an active contributor to the security community, speaking at various conferences across the United States, as well as, helping to organize security conferences.