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.

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 WiCyS Strategic Partner, AWS will discuss misconfiguration in the cloud, its patterns, threats, and risk to an organization/business. Understanding the shared responsibility model and how we can protect our organizations. We will be going through a use-case exercise and attendees will learn how we can implement the shared model.

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 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.

Can't make it on May 26? Go ahead and register to you receive a recording as soon as we wrap!

How to get into Cybersecurity the non-technical way

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!

Can't make it to the webinar on May 12? Go ahead and register, so you receive a recording as soon as we wrap!

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

Interested in the career journey of women in data science? On March 3, join four women from WiCyS' Strategic Partner, Bloomberg, to learn what it took for them to land a job in the industry and their keys to career success. 

Can’t make it on March 3? Go ahead and register, so you can receive a recording as soon as we wrap!

How to Accelerate Your Career in Security Data Science

Curious to learn more about this year’s WiCyS CTF competition?

Come join us as we talk about the CTF format, duration, registration process, system requirements, and demo the CTF platform. This year’s competition will include challenges from CISA’s President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition and team registration will open at the end of the webinar. This will allow you an opportunity to get acclimated with the CTF platform, chat with others who are competing and launch practice challenges ahead of the event.

Want to win this year’s CTF? Make sure to tune into this webinar.

WiCyS 2022 Capture the Flag (CTF) Competition Prep

In the journey of a Security or Privacy professional, we often find ourselves staring at a job description, preparing for an interview or negotiation, or standing in front of a career booth, unsure. How do we stand? Where do our hands go? What do or can we say? Ultimately, how do we represent ourselves in a manner that is professional, best represents our abilities, and is authentic to who we are? To be comfortable and confident in answering these questions, we must understand ourselves: our abilities, opportunities, motivators, and values.

In preparation for WiCyS’ Virtual Career Fair and WiCyS 2022 Career Fair, join Barbee Mooneyhan and Janice Reese, President and Vice President of WiCyS Tennessee Affiliate, as they discuss the different careers, roles, and responsibilities in Security and Privacy, how to approach job descriptions and how to pair our authentic self and experience in our resume.

Preconference Event: Personal Branding in Security and Privacy

The route to cybersecurity careers can feel very confusing and unclear. Cyber FastTrack will help rid you of some career trajectory confusion, streamlining your focus and efforts while embracing the power of the WiCyS community along the way! This WiCyS Cyber FastTrack Cohort experience will allow you to learn through CyberStart gamified challenges, network, develop friendships, and advance through scholarship opportunities - all designed to help launch YOU into your cybersecurity career.

WiCyS Cyber FastTrack Cohort

While the cyber challenges we face today are unprecedented, AI remains one of the best tools we have to confront our present and future cyber threats. In order to ensure our AI systems and the technology that uses our AI are developed responsibly, and in ways that warrant people’s trust, the future of cybersecurity truly depends on investing in diverse cybersecurity teams. Join this webinar with WiCyS Strategic Partner, Microsoft, as they share how we can ensure greater diversity of teams and data as we move closer to future-proofing against biases in tech.

Future Proofing Against Bias in Tech

WiCyS Strategic Partner, Dell, is helping you unlock Ransomware with this webinar on February 3rd. Join us to highlight Ransomware attacks, the hacker groups, and our best bet for the last line of defense.

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Ransomware Unlocked

Are you interested in a cybersecurity internship but tired of completing countless applications? We understand how applying to multiple internships that often ask for the same information can be tiresome. If you experience this kind of "application burnout" and related stress from the amount of time spent in applying, consider the WiCyS Internship Program! The WiCyS Internship program offers access to internships offered exclusively by WiCyS strategic partners for qualifying WiCyS members.

Join this webinar to learn more about this universal application that acts as a one-stop-shop for interested students. The universal application combines a brief internship application and a simple CyberGEN.IQ cyber aptitude assessment. CyberGEN.IQ is designed to uncover innate cyber aptitude without any prior knowledge of cybersecurity. Everyone who completes CyberGEN.IQ will have an opportunity to learn how to make the most of the information they receive. This insight can be valuable when assessing personal strengths and making critical decisions along the path leading to a rewarding career path in cybersecurity.

Register for this webinar on February 2 to learn more! Can't make it? Go ahead and register so you can receive a recording as soon as we wrap!

WiCyS Internship Program

Mentorship is the catalyst for career advancement. It cultivates a space for cybersecurity students and professionals to make progress in their careers, as mentees, and for mentors to gain long-lasting leadership skills in which allyship and equity shine. Mentoring programs are where crucial conversations are facilitated and personal/professional growth is achieved. This webinar will review the WiCyS mentor/mentee program, what inclusive mentoring is all about, and the WiCyS-integrated CyberGEN.IQ assessment. This unique assessment uncovers mentees’ natural cognitive strengths in cybersecurity, aligning with their career aspirations as they make long-lasting career choices.

Inclusive Cybersecurity Mentoring and Career Assessment

Ever wondered what it takes to join a team of the world's leading hackers, vulnerability managers, and incident responders? Come hear from IBM's X-Force on how to break into (pun intended) cybersecurity, and what you can do to make yourself an ideal candidate for the job. Learn what a day in the life of an X-Force security professional looks like, and how you can be a part of the mission to secure everything.

How To Become A Cybersecurity Professional

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