Wendy Bashnan has never worked a day in her life. Well, that’s what she will tell you, though the reality is that she’s worked incredibly hard as a security leader within both the public and private sectors over the past three decades.

Bashnan, currently Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Nielsen, is a security leader that wants to do things differently. She doesn’t believe in the “it has always been done approach.” She believes in pushing the boundaries and taking lessons learned from other industries, departments and sectors — and translating those lessons into the physical (or what she calls the “people”) side of security.