Modern CISO Network: Board Book
A directory of board-ready security leaders
location
AMER
areas of expertise
- Data privacy and policy
- Risk management and strategy
- Cloud security
- Compliance and audit
- Complex hybrid IT infrastructures
- Threat hunting/AI project
- EU-US market specifications
- Cybersecurity events and content production
Carolin Desirée Toepfer
CISO as a Service & CyberTech/EdTech Founder
Cyttraction
Carolin Desirée Toepfer works as CISO as a Service and is founder of the CyberTech/EdTech startup Cyttraction. She helps people and companies understand strategic IT security and technical data protection to produce a higher security level.
The Cyttraction mission is changing the metrics for risk training: from forced to fun, with increased results that are measurable. Part of the AI research activities is also a daily Threat Hunting newsletter, available for free.
Carolin has a degree in political science, studied computer engineering as well and is a certified data protection officer and IT forensics specialist. She has 20 years of digital project experience and after working in the financial industry as well as at Germany’s biggest company builder, Carolin
started her first business in 2016, a digital transformation consultancy. In addition to advisory projects, workshops and keynotes, Carolin also uses Cyttraction's research on operational cybersecurity, risk training and learning behavior to explain strategic IT security and technical data protection to various target groups and social media communities in German and English.
Cyttraction is currently active in several EU countries and the US, with a global expansion strategy.