Talya C. Parker

Cybersecurity and Privacy Architect - Georgia Tech Research Institute | Founder - Black Girls In Cyber

Atlanta

Talya Parker is a Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Risk Management professional with over seven years of advisory, consulting, and industry experience combined. Her industry experience consists of consumer products, healthcare, financial, public sector (state), and the federal government.

As a Cybersecurity and Privacy Architect (Sr. Manager) with Georgia Institute of Technology (also known as Georgia Tech); Talya manages and leads the implementation for the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) via ServiceNow in reference and adherence to Federal and State regulations, as well as, industry standards including MARSE, NIST, and ISO frameworks. She also co-leads the security risk assessments and audits against her client’s AWS Cloud Integration Platform to provide programmatic and strategic support while migrating from a legacy and monolithic system to a module-based system leveraging Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Before GA Tech, Talya worked for Nike. She created processes to support privacy operations and managed the privacy and compliance reviews of all Converse’s digital products for consumers, and internal users to ensure the implementation of proper privacy controls. Prior to Nike, Talya spent four years with Deloitte & Touche’; her projects spanned across the development of a system security plan via NIST requirements, the management of operational and information technology processes, and strategic roadmap development for top CISO clients. Additionally, Talya led and managed Deloitte’s internal data protection team and the privacy assessments of tax tools, and technology deployed within Deloitte US and its member firms.

Talya holds an Executive Masters in Cybersecurity from Brown University; a Master of International Business from Nova Southeastern University; B.S. in Business from Florida A&M University. During her spare time, she enjoys the beach, traveling all over Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean, and visiting local coffee shops.