Parisa Tabriz
Google’s Security Princess
Chrome security, and the campaign that made HTTPS the default
Rating
86Impact score
Domains
Browser securityHTTPS adoptionSecurity engineering
Scouting report
Joined Google as a penetration tester, printed “Security Princess” on her business card, and rose to run Chrome. Led the multi-year project to mark plain HTTP as “Not secure” in the world’s most-used browser, which more than anything else moved the web to encryption by default, and pushed Project Zero’s 90-day disclosure deadline as an industry-wide forcing function.
Curator’s note
Changed one string in a browser UI and moved the whole web to TLS.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Parisa Tabriz by mrisher, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sources
- 01Parisa Tabriz en.wikipedia.org
- 02Chromium: marking HTTP as not secure blog.chromium.org