Erin Becker is the Senior Director of Cybersecurity for Cyber Defense at Target. In this capacity, she leads the Cyber Fraud & Abuse program, dedicated to the prevention, detection, and mitigation of theft, fraud, and abuse across both physical and digital channels. Leveraging cyber defense capabilities, her teams include investigations, transaction risk, payment fraud strategy, solutions engineering, and product management.
With over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity, Erin has held numerous leadership and analyst positions within information security, including roles in vendor security, incident management, security consulting, insider threat, data loss prevention and cyber operations. She is actively engaged within the industry, bringing together her peers and other stakeholders to collaborate and co-create solutions to combat these complex threats.
Erin is a founding member of the Gift Card Fraud Prevention Alliance, now under the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA). She also serves on the Steering Committee for the Aspen Institute Financial Security Program’s National Task Force on Fraud and Scam Prevention. Erin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Cloud State University.