Runa Sandvik
Runa Sandvik is a Norwegian-American security researcher and the founder of Granitt, where she works to protect journalists, human rights defenders and other people facing sophisticated digital threats. She began her career as an early developer at the Tor Project, contributing to technology that enables anonymous and censorship-resistant communication online.
Runa later served as Senior Director of Information Security at The New York Times, where she helped protect journalists, sources and newsroom operations, and led work including the launch of the newspaper’s Tor onion service. She has also advised the Freedom of the Press Foundation and conducted widely recognised security research, including demonstrating how an internet-connected smart rifle could be remotely compromised.
Her career has focused on cybersecurity, privacy, press freedom and defending people targeted by nation-state and other advanced adversaries.