Nazira Carlage is a Senior Manager, Product Security at EMC Corporation. She leads the EMC Product Security Response Center that is responsible for managing and resolving security vulnerabilities in EMC products. Additionally, she has responsibility to drive the strategy and execution of initiatives to manage various product security inquires from customers, as well as deliver security information to customers.

She represents EMC Corporation at the Forum for Incident Response (FIRST) and SAFECode (www.safecode.org). She contributed to the development of CVSSv3 (https://www.first.org/cvss) and also the 2010/2011 CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors (http://www.sans.org/top25-software-errors/).

She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science (Concentration in Security) from Boston University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Kyrgyz State Technical University. She is CISSP, GPEN, and GCIH certified.