Heather Adkins

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Heather Adkins is VP of Security Engineering at Google and a founding member of the company’s security team. She co-authored Google’s Building Secure and Reliable Systems (O’Reilly, 2020).

On this wiki she is a co-introducer of VulnOps. In September 2025 Adkins and Gadi Evron issued the industry warning that autonomous vulnerability discovery and exploitation were roughly six months away; in October 2025 the two, with Bruce Schneier, framed VulnOps as the permanent operating function the field would need in response. She is a contributing author to the Mythos-ready strategic briefing.