Insurance has always been a business built on trust, but that trust now depends as much on cyber resilience as it does on underwriting discipline or claims performance. The women in this feature reflect how deeply cybersecurity, digital risk, resilience, and enterprise technology now shape the insurance sector. Their careers span carriers, mortgage insurance, consulting, financial services, and enterprise risk leadership, showing how modern insurance security leaders are helping protect policyholders, operations, and long-term business confidence.
Julie Rupert — Chief Cyber & Digital Risk Officer, American Family Insurance
Julie Rupert is Chief Cyber & Digital Risk Officer at American Family Insurance, where she oversees risk tied to digital platforms, AI, and emerging technology threats across the enterprise. Her career at the company stretches nearly two decades and includes leadership across IT security, enterprise technology, solution delivery, underwriting, product development, pricing, and business transformation. That breadth gives her an unusually comprehensive perspective on how cybersecurity, digital risk, and insurance operations intersect inside a major carrier.
Donna Ross — Chief Information Security Officer, Radian
Donna Ross is Chief Information Security Officer at Radian, where she has led the company’s security function since 2016. Her background spans insurance, mortgage risk, banking, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail, with earlier leadership roles at Accolade, Corning, GMAC ResCap, GMAC Mortgage, and Prudential. In addition to her enterprise responsibilities, she has remained highly visible in the broader cyber community through long-standing leadership with InfraGard Philadelphia, WiCyS Delaware Valley, and multiple advisory boards focused on security collaboration and professional development.
Katie Jenkins — EVP & Chief Information Security Officer, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Katie Jenkins is EVP and Chief Information Security Officer at Liberty Mutual Insurance, where she has led the global security program since 2018. She brings deep expertise in cloud security strategy, cybersecurity operations, crisis management, responsible AI, and regulatory compliance, built over years at Liberty Mutual, AT&T Consulting, VeriSign, Guardent, and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Her profile stands out for the scale of her current remit, her board-level communication experience, and her reputation as a builder of global teams across complex technology environments.
Mary Prabha Ng — Chief Information Security Officer, Equitable
Mary Prabha Ng has served as Chief Information Security Officer at Equitable since 2012, giving her one of the longest current CISO tenures in this group. Her experience combines enterprise security leadership with earlier risk roles at Macquarie and Credit Suisse, instructional work with GIAC SANS, university-level infrastructure experience at Princeton, and secure communications work at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. That mix of technical depth, risk management, and long-term executive leadership makes her a significant figure in insurance cybersecurity.
Jennifer Westphal — Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, MGIC
Jennifer Westphal is Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at MGIC, where she leads cybersecurity initiatives, technology risk management, business continuity, and executive security reporting. Over more than a decade at MGIC, she progressed from senior analyst and project lead roles into deputy CISO and then CISO, helping shape the company’s security framework, cyber operations, cloud and application security, identity management, threat management, and governance programs. Her career reflects the kind of steady, inside-the-organization leadership that often defines durable security maturity in insurance.
Where Cyber Risk Meets Insurance Strategy
What makes this group especially notable is how clearly they reflect the evolution of insurance cybersecurity itself. These are not leaders working at the edge of the business. They are shaping core strategy inside carriers and insurance-related organizations where digital trust, regulatory readiness, operational resilience, and customer confidence increasingly move together.
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