Alissa Irei

Alissa Irei is an award-winning B2B cybersecurity journalist with more than a decade of experience covering enterprise technology. Her coverage areas include cyber risk; cyber resilience; cyber-risk quantification; cybersecurity board reporting; AI risk, AI governance and secure AI adoption; regulatory compliance; cloud security; security operations; identity and access management; ransomware and extortion; vulnerability and exposure management; and third-party and supply-chain risk.

Irei holds a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree in political science from Davidson College. Her work has earned multiple Azbee awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, including recognition for her feature reporting on CISO liability issues and DevSecOps.