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Joel de la Garza

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Joel de la Garza is a partner focused on information security related investments and other chaos adjacent businesses. He believes information security is getting better with security products that combine usability and security, the move to the cloud, the rise of hardware-based multi-factor authentication, and other trends.

Prior to a16z, he was the chief security officer at Box, where he joined post Series B and scaled up through post IPO. From 2007 to 2013, Joel was the global head of Threat Management and Cyber Intelligence for Citigroup, where he built the first open and closed source intelligence center outside of the defense industrial base. He also ran incident response for Deutsche Bank and founded and worked at assorted security startups. He attended Stanford University where he studied Computer Science and German.

Latest Posts

2020: Why a Bad Year Was Good for Security

by Joel de la Garza
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • security & privacy
  • end of year roundups
  • trends 2020

16 Minutes on the News #49: U.S. Government Hacked; Scaling Ethereum

by Joel de la Garza, Ali Yahya, Zoran Basich, and Sonal Chokshi
  • cloud computing
  • cryptocurrencies & blockchains
  • news
  • security & privacy
  • 16 Minutes
  • apparently our stuff is 16 (or multiples of 16!)
  • hacked!

16 Minutes on the News #31: The Security and Privacy of Contact Tracing

by Joel de la Garza and Sonal Chokshi
  • bio
  • news
  • security & privacy
  • 16 Minutes
  • coronavirus & the COVID-19 pandemic
  • healthcare

a16z Podcast: The Chief Security Officer In (and Out of) a Crisis

by Joel de la Garza, Joe Sullivan, and Das Rush
  • enterprise & SaaS
  • security & privacy
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