Meet Rachel Wilson, Head of Wealth Management Data Security & Infrastructure Risk, Morgan Stanley
When Rachel Wilson was a child, her father would tuck her into bed at night. “My dad is an amateur military historian” she says. “And he was particularly interested in times when intelligence changed the course of a battle. So it follows that Wilson knew even at age five what the National Security Agency was and that one day she’d work there.
Wilson rose to run the NSA’s counter terrorism operations mission, tracking down terrorists around the world. She next spent a few years at the American Embassy in London, then returned to NSA headquarters in Maryland and for five years she ran cyber-exploitation missions. Today, she leverages that experience to look at Morgan Stanley’s networks, systems and applications “through the lens of an adversary.”