Women in Cybersecurity

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Due to the high-profile data breaches, cybersecurity has become a household word. Think back to just one month ago, when the data breach at Equifax exposed the personal information for...

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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...

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"You are a woman in tech. You are part of the 11% of women in cybersecurity. You make an impact. You're not alone - you have the #wearecisco fam behind you. Don't ever forget that." - Tammy Nguyen shares her story of realizing she was, indeed, a woman in tech.

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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

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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...

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This blog is the first in a series of posts featuring perspectives from Cisco women in security. Next month’s blog will feature Chief Privacy Officer, Michelle Dennedy. When I started my information security career at NASA’s Ames Research Center in 1988, there were very few women in the field. In fact, I’d attend conferences in […]

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An issue I can relate to – the lack of women in cybersecurity. While women represented 25% of computing professionals in 2015, they only represented 10% of the information security...

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The week of November 10 was filled with learning and excitement for security technology enthusiasts at Cisco's Bangalore campus as people gathered for SecCon-X 2014, Cisco's largest annual cross-company...