Last year’s Celebrating International Women’s Day: Carving a Cybersecurity Career Path webinar featured a panel of accomplished women in cybersecurity for a discussion that captured the female perspective in the field. The group came together to discuss the data surrounding the demographics that make up the workforce and how they are shifting. They also shared their journeys in the profession that led them to the leadership positions they now hold, including the challenges encountered and strategies they employed to succeed. The conversation took a look ahead to the evolution of diverse cybersecurity teams and the principles that inform how they are assembled.
Join us for this year’s webinar Tackling Gender Bias - The Young Women's Perspectives on Monday, March 7 at 11:00 a.m. EST. The event will feature a new panel of women cyber professionals and young women leaders in cybersecurity as they discuss how they have broken through gender biases to forge their career paths, and how we can all help young women in the profession to succeed. The panel moderated by Sharon Smith, Senior Security Risk Manager at Amazon will include Ebony Stephens, (ISC)² Security Engineer, Megan West, X-Force Cybersecurity Incident Response Consultant, IBM, and Weijia Yan, (ISC)² Undergraduate Scholar, WiCyS BIPOC Fellow.
We are excited to announce that this webinar will mark the launch of our new DEI webinar series, a part of our multi-year DEI initiative. Throughout the year, future webinars will feature inclusion-focused events to elevate diverse voices and perspectives within cyber, highlight best practices to build a more inclusive cyber profession and provide tools and strategies to help diverse professionals succeed.