For the 113th International Women’s Day, Security Magazine is sharing stories and suggestions from women in security leadership positions. 

Security magazine’s 2023 Top Cybersecurity Leaders award program highlights the accomplishments of innovative information security professionals across sectors.

Phillimon Zongo, CEO and Co-Founder at the Cyber Leadership Institute, emphasizes information sharing and mentorship through his cybersecurity leadership.

Alex Holden uses actionable threat intelligence to identify some of the world’s largest data breaches and unearth ransomware collective operations.

Jadee Hanson, CIO and CISO at Code42, takes a human-centric approach to insider risk management and cybersecurity best practices.

The 2022 Cybersecurity Workforce Study from (ISC)² identified the current cyber workforce gap to be 3.4 million employees.

20 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are establishing Cybersecurity Leadership Centers in partnership with IBM to address staffing shortages.

The enterprise security team at Bristol Myers Squibb will discuss their actionable diversity and inclusion measures in a panel at the SECURITY 500 Conference.

Campus safety and law enforcement leader Gerald Lewis Jr. has been named Vice President for Public Safety at Columbia University.

While women make up 24% of the cybersecurity workforce, they only hold 10% of leadership positions, according to results from the 2022 Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Survey from Heidrick & Struggles.