Career profile
Nasrin Rezai
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer, Verizon
- Current role, per sources checked 27 September 2026
- Not stated in the sources
Nasrin Rezai is Verizon's chief information security officer, signing the company's own account-security page in that role.
Dark Reading's contributor page carries the fuller title and mandate: senior vice president and CISO, responsible for setting information security strategy, policy, standards, architecture and processes, working with Verizon's business units to protect its customers and networks.
Career path
Before Verizon, Rezai held the position of Global Chief Information and Product Cyber Security Officer at GE.
Her earlier roles at the same company included Global CISO for GE Capital and head of Corporate Governance, Technology Risk and M&A security for GE's industrial businesses.
Across that career, RSA Conference's bio says she has focused on promoting engineering and architecture in designing security solutions for large enterprises.
The sources reviewed for this profile do not give a date for when Rezai moved from GE to Verizon, so that transition is left undated here.
Published work on the industry's talent gap
In an October 2021 Dark Reading byline, How We Can Narrow the Talent Shortage in Cybersecurity, Rezai pointed to a workforce study putting the global cybersecurity talent shortage at more than four million people.
Her proposed fix centered on widening who counts as a candidate: expanding hiring criteria, building apprenticeship and training programs for people outside a traditional technology career path, and prioritizing practical experience and curiosity over degree requirements.
She wrote that hiring language matters too, describing the value of "using fresh, non-gender-biased language for your job descriptions, focusing on core requirements instead of lengthy lists of technical specifications."
On broadening the talent pipeline, Rezai wrote that Verizon partners with mentorship and development organizations including Women in CyberSecurity, Girls Who Code, and the National Society of Black Engineers.
She also described on-the-job training partnerships with Generation and Multiverse that give candidates paid training in software engineering, cloud and IT, alongside an internal upskilling and tuition-reimbursement program for building the security workforce from within Verizon's own ranks.