Articles Tagged with ''women in cyber security''

Women in the physical security and cybersecurity industries talk their careers and promoting diversity and inclusion on International Women's Day 2022.

Recipients will be featured in Security magazine’s July 2022 digital edition as well as online.

We are looking for female enterprise security professionals that demonstrate a positive influence on their peers, their departments, and/or the security industry as a whole. Nominate someone today!

Foregrounding transparency can go a long way in securing your organization's technology and workforce, according to four cybersecurity experts from Intel. Suzy Greenberg, Vice President of Communications and Incident Response; Maggie Jauregui, Offensive Security Researcher; Katie Noble, Director of Intel's Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) and Bug Bounty; and Amit Elazari, Director of Global Cybersecurity Policy discussed transparency in bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure programs, as well as gender parity in cybersecurity.

"You can't expect to have the best and brightest if you're only recruiting from 50% of the population. You have to recruit from 100% of the population and if you don't, you're not going to get the best and brightest," said CyberWarrior COO Jonathan Edwards. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) awarded CyberWarrior a grant to develop cyber workforce training for underserved populations.

By being an organization of change, executives can not only diversify the talent within security, cybersecurity and IT teams, but they can improve the quality of their hires and set their enterprise organizations up to thrive in the future.

Women make up only 24% of the cybersecurity field, according to an ISC² study. Cybersecurity leaders Sharon Smith, Lori Ross O'Neil, Aanchal Gupta and Meg West discussed how to solve the problem of underrepresentation in the industry at the ISC² Security Congress 2021.

In this year’s Security Leadership: 2021 Women in Security report, we take you through the professional journeys of 13 enterprise security leaders that have risen the ranks during their careers with their skills, forward-thinking mindsets, and a passion for the job they do.

Ariel Weintraub has been appointed CISO at MassMutual.