Amanda Fennell

Amanda Fennell is the Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Information Officer of Prove Identity, a role she took up in January 2023.

Career path

Fennell joined Prove from Relativity, where she served as chief security officer and chief information officer.
At Relativity she was responsible for overseeing security strategy for key business functions. Her Relativity blog posts trace that tenure from a June 2018 security update through a July 2018 reflection on a CSO's first hundred days, a March 2019 strategy update, an April 2020 HIPAA compliance announcement, and a January 2022 recap of the Security Sandbox podcast's first season. Before Relativity, she held security executive roles at Symantec, Dell SecureWorks, Zurich Insurance Group, Booz Allen Hamilton, and Guidance Software.
Prove announced her appointment as CISO and CIO on January 26, 2023, citing her move from the CISO and CIO post at Relativity.

Security strategy and public engagements

At Prove, Fennell champions and directs security strategy across risk management and compliance practices while also building and supporting the company's information technology function. Discussing the move shortly after joining, she said, "Prove is a driving force in modernizing digital identity to ensure the security of companies and their users while also enabling fast and seamless customer experiences." In October 2022, while still at Relativity, she joined BigID's CISO Tyler Young for a Cybersecurity Dive discussion on approaching the first months of a CISO role. At Relativity she also created and hosted the Security Sandbox podcast, which set out to connect subjects outside security with security practice.
In April 2023 she spoke to PYMNTS about why passwords remain difficult to eliminate. In July 2024 she appeared as a guest speaker for the Tucson chapter of ISACA.

Teaching

Fennell is an adjunct professor of cybersecurity at Tulane University.