Profile
Matt Southworth is the VP, Security Engineering at Priceline. He leads the security team to reduce risk, improve customer trust, and fight the bad guys coming after our data.
Matt joined Priceline in a security engineering role in 2013 and has overseen the growth and maturation of the security team and capabilities. His team is responsible for product security, network and infrastructure protection, user safety, managing PCI compliance, and incident response. His team also has operational responsibility for the security of Booking Holdings’ users and data.
Matt has hosted security summits for the security teams at all Booking Holdings brands, runs real-time collaboration tools to share technical data, and has also organized industry-wide Threat Exchange summits bringing together OTAs, GDSes, and metasearch providers.
Prior to his time at Priceline and Booking Holdings, Matt held security engineering roles at membership and loyalty providers, health and life sciences companies, and several tech startups.