cybersecurity talent

March 8, 2018

SECURITY

Balancing Cybersecurity Program Priorities: It’s Time to Get Help

Fast, good, and cheap. Or: Time, resources and budget. The Project Management Triangle. The Iron Triangle.  The Triple Constraint. There are many names for the program management challenge of balancing three constraints, but it all comes down to this: you can’t have all three. You can do something…

November 10, 2017

SECURITY

The Power of Role Models and a Good Book

My path to cybersecurity looks more like a winding road than a straight line, but it’s the influential role models and valuable information I consumed with every turn that paved my path towards a career in cybersecurity – specifically privacy. I fell into secure networking by chance. I was attending…

October 23, 2017

SECURITY

Cisco Takes Exclusivity Out of Cybersecurity

Nearly 30 years ago, I attended the first of what would be hundreds of information security conferences throughout my career. I was astonished to be one of only a handful of females in a sea of men – our career goals were the same, but I had a steep climb compared to my male counterparts. I entered…

July 17, 2017

SECURITY

For Women in Cybersecurity, Possibilities are Endless

This blog is the third in a series of posts sharing perspectives from Cisco women in security. Previous blogs featured Michele Guel, Engineer and Chief Security Architect and Michelle Dennedy, Chief Privacy Officer. When the public thinks of cybersecurity we often envision people sitting in dark roo…

June 23, 2017

SECURITY

Securing Your Data in the Transformation to Digital

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a joint webinar between Cisco and Global Knowledge Canada to discuss Cisco’s latest cybersecurity industry research, the security challenges organizations face today, and how organizations can mitigate risks. After a detailed conversation with Brad Ha…

June 7, 2017

SECURITY

When Women Happen to Things, Things Happen

Leonardo Da Vinci once said, “It had long come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” Now is the time for women to make things happen. We have created a digital world knitted together by millions of connecte…