Addressing diversity and talent shortages in cybersecurity through recruiting, retaining and advancing women in the field of cybersecurity, and improving on the very low 20-24% statistic of women in cybersecurity jobs.

Market research shows that companies with DE&I (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) leadership out-innovate and out-perform their industry peers. WiCyS Strategic Partner, AWS, is invested in DE&I and makes it a mission to better understand what DE&I means and how we can be most impactful to our teams and customers by driving innovative and inclusive technology solutions.

This webinar will be speaking with Amazon DE&I champions. They will reflect on DE&I principles and share how they use them to drive diversity, equity and inclusion in the efforts they lead with their customers, the solutions they architect and innovate, and the peers they work with. AWS DE&I champions will also highlight the impact and success that investing in a DE&I culture has brought to the organization they represent.

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Innovation driven by a culture of DE&I

Information Security at Linkedin consists of several teams that work closely to protect the organization from adversaries. In this webinar, WiCyS strategic partner, Linkedin, will provide an exclusive look into these teams, what they do and how they all contribute to achieving their collective infosec mission. 

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Exclusive Look into LinkedIn InfoSec

Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and, with the human element being instrumental in the large majority of breaches, educating the workforce on security red flags and best practices are critical to safeguarding an organization from attacks. What exactly is it that entices users to engage, and how does Security Awareness Training decondition employees to not fall prey?

In this webinar with WiCyS strategic partner Fortinet, we'll discuss the methods attackers use to fool their targets, the times when a user is more likely to fall for an attack, and how a Security Awareness and Training program can help create a cyber-aware culture.

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Retraining the Brain

WiCyS is proud to offer the Security Training Scholarship made possible by Google, Bloomberg, and Meta. Join the team that brings this opportunity to life during a webinar on Wednesday, August 3rd at 5 pm CT. This event will include an introduction and overview of the program, some alumni success stories, and time for Q & A.  

About the Security Training Scholarship: 
The focus of this multi-staged scholarship opportunity is to award WiCyS members who are seeking cybersecurity employment within the next 1.5 years. The program is designed for aspiring professionals and career changers. Those selected will participate in a reliable pathway to launch and advance in their cybersecurity careers through skills development. 

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Security Training Scholarship

As data leaks become more frequent and severe, the Zero Trust security paradigm becomes increasingly important. The concept and adoption of Zero Trust may seem daunting, but it is an incremental journey involving people, processes, and technology that paves the road to mitigate challenges caused by evolving business models, shifting workforce dynamics, voluminous data transfer, and complex technologies.

WiCyS Strategic Partner, Wayfair, will be taking the viewers through a guided tour of fundamental concepts, insights, and implementation strategies to help them take their initial step toward building a Zero Trust environment.

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Zero Trust for the Rest of Us

Implementing a Security Operations Center (SOC) for the cloud can be a daunting and overwhelming task. While your SOC is trying to write use cases to detect attacks for every project your business has, how will you also monitor the cloud?

This webinar with WiCyS Strategic Partner, AWS, will talk about an approach to getting started using the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and some AWS native tools.

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Detecting MITRE ATT&CKs with AWS

Today, women make up around 24% of the cybersecurity workforce. The team at Verizon devotes time and attention to getting the word out that women are wanted, respected, and valued in the ever-going fight against cyber adversaries. The demand for qualified professionals is great and the opportunities for women to have a seat at the table are now. Join this Verizon webinar to learn about the Security Operations Center (SOC), Network CyberSecurity Center (NCC), and the Verizon initiatives to recruit and promote more women in cybersecurity. 

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Women in Cyber Security

Cyberattacks against healthcare jumped 42% in 2020 and another 35% in 2021. 

Successful cyberattacks disrupt healthcare operations, delay access to clinical services, and lead to significant economic loss. Stolen patient records can be used to commit fraud and identity theft, disrupting patients’ personal lives. 

Medical information is an attractive target because it has high economic value on the black market. 

If you are interested in protecting patients and the healthcare organizations that serve them from cybercriminals, join WiCyS Strategic Partner, Optum, to learn about the career opportunities in healthcare cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity Careers in Healthcare

Join us for an informational webinar for the WiCyS Fortinet NSE 4 Certification Summer Camp

The Fortinet NSE 4 Certification Summer Camp will take 100 WiCyS members through a 10-week self-paced, instructor-supported, training program for Fortinet NSE 4 training and certification. All participating WiCyS members will also receive a free voucher to take their NSE 4 certification, either in person or through remote proctoring.

Fortinet NSE 4 certification is ideal for professionals in technical support, system security administration, and network security administration. It is also valuable to those wishing to transition into these roles. Participants will learn the knowledge and skills necessary to operate and support a next-generation firewall in order to support specific corporate security policies.

WiCyS Fortinet NSE4 Certification Summer Camp

Are you interested in breaking into cybersecurity, but not sure you have all the technical skills? This webinar will empower you to see that YOU have what it takes to break into the industry the non-technical way. This field needs diversity in all skills to fill the ongoing talent gaps, so join this webinar where WiCyS Strategic Partner, Sentinel One, will be sharing the non-technical side to start your Cybersecurity journey.

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How to get into Cybersecurity the non-technical way

Join WiCyS Strategic Partner, AWS, as they discuss misconfiguration in the cloud, its patterns, threats, and risk to an organization/business. Looking to better understand the shared responsibility model and how we can protect our organizations? This webinar will be going through a use-case exercise and attendees will learn how we can implement the shared model. 

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Mis-Configuration in the Cloud

With the huge expansion on the attack surface of an organization and the dynamic growth in the realm of Cybersecurity, employees are tempted to choose the latest and greatest product in the market to make life easier for them. While busy individuals think they are finding a solution to their problem, not assessing the associated security risks can cause more problems than it solves! What vulnerabilities are associated with this new tool? Who should have access to the data? Who should own the application? It is quite common for products from vendors to become compromised.

In this presentation, WiCyS strategic partner, Workday, will talk about how Enterprise Security establishes the relationship and collaborates with various security teams before a technology is approved.

Enterprise Security: The Batman Effect

Are you a community college educator seeking unique and creative ways to engage your cybersecurity students but need additional funds to make opportunities happen? WiCyS, in partnership with the National Cybersecurity Scholarship Foundation (NCSF), is opening up a Request for Proposals to pilot programs that include engagement with Cyber FastTrack. Tap into your creativity and mobilize your students of all genders for Cyber FastTrack activities, scholarship opportunities, and more while taking your classroom learning experiences to the next level!

NCSF will award 2-3 grants to test novel, scalable outreach strategies that have a high potential to captivate a diverse group of participants in different geographical regions. This RFP is for community college submissions only and this webinar will review the piloted program, plus answer questions along the way!

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Mobilize: Community College Cyber FastTrack Pilot Program

In this talk with WiCyS Strategic Partner, AWS, we will discuss cloud monitoring challenges focusing on observability, threat detection, incident response, and compliance on AWS.

 Attendees will learn about multiple AWS-native logging and monitoring opportunities based on the AWS services.

If It Moves - Log It!

Major cyber-attacks are on the rise, introducing never-ending business risks. This webinar with WiCyS Strategic Partner, PayPal, will discuss how organizations could prepare for the next large-scale security incident and improve their response effectiveness. Three members of PayPal's cybersecurity team will use the response to log4j, the critical vulnerability that plagued many companies this past December, as a case study.


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Responding to Mega Cyber-Incidents

Security is at the very top of the list of priorities for corporate leaders, and for a good reason. Data breaches have never been so numerous or severe. There are many areas of digital services that need to be defended, but none are more important than the applications and data in the cloud. Although application layer defense is not always well understood, web application attacks remain the most frequent cause of confirmed breaches. As more business workflows move into third-party cloud services, corporate data is no longer contained within traditional corporate network boundaries. Applications have become the new frontier and security can be incorporated into multiple stages of the software development lifecycle to mitigate application vulnerabilities.

In this talk with WiCyS Strategic Partner, Cisco, viewers will be given an overview of the application and cloud security with topics in Software Development Lifecycle, threat modeling, secure coding practices, common application vulnerabilities, and countermeasures. Organizations must take the threat of insecure web applications seriously and take a risk-based approach to protect data in the cloud. The webinar will conclude with considerations and guidelines related to cloud security.

Application and Cloud Security Overview

Are you ready to explore how threat actors think, leverage threat intelligence, and gain experience working within different roles of a cyber defense team? 

Join the WiCyS Cyber Defense Challenge made possible by Target. This webinar will introduce this unique challenge that tackles simulated intel-driven scenarios to understand the threat actors behind malicious behaviors. 

The multi-tiered program will give WiCyS members a plethora of cyber defense savviness while providing opportunities to win prizes, swag, and WiCyS 2023 conference scholarships! 

Join the Target team on March 30, as they review the Cyber Defense Challenge and host a live Q & A.

Cyber Defense Challenge Made Possible By Target

Join WiCyS Strategic Partner, SentinelOne, to learn just how important curiosity is to creating a world that is gender-equal. During this webinar, you will not only learn about this curiosity through an interactive discussion but also walk away with tangible next steps you can implement to foster it and use it to advance others around you. #BreakTheBias


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Curiosity Didn't Kill the Cat: Cultivating a Culture of Performance

From years ago to today, the challenges for women in security industries have evolved but do not completely disappear. What can we expect from our colleagues today and how do we overcome these challenges? With a real-life case study from SentinelOne, a Cyber Security solution provider, we see how a corporate culture of diversity and innovation crashed the glass ceiling and enabled risk-taking that led to product enhancements.

How D&I can Lead to Product Innovation

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