Mozilla Lawyer Talks Law Firm Cybersecurity

Denelle Dixon-Thayer joined Mozilla in 2012 as an associate general counsel and has since risen to the position of senior vice president of business and legal affairs in which her responsibilities include business development, public policy and managing the legal department.

Registered as a non-profit, Mozilla is an open source browser, meaning the code that makes it work is available for anyone to scrutinize. Many of its employees hold strong beliefs about privacy, and are as Dixon-Thayer calls them “privacy engineers” who insist on transparency about the company’s data collection policies.

Mozilla itself has created a series of tutorials such as its Smart on ...