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.

Join one of our information sessions to learn about participating in the next phase of the State of Inclusion of Women in Cybersecurity. Each session will provide an overview of the project and will include a live Q&A to address any questions about this opportunity. Attendance is free and open to any organization interested in participating in the industry inclusion benchmark.

PHASE 2: CyberSecurity Industry-Wide Inclusion Benchmark

JPMC Managing Director Rosa Ramos-Kwok shares how staying true to yourself and your brand can benefit your career progression. In this WiCyS strategic partner webinar, Ramos-Kwok also drills down on the importance of diversity in cybersecurity leadership roles.

Lessons to My Younger Self

Real-time intrusion characterization in cyber networks is a highly complex problem that requires network-informed anomaly detection tools for success. Dynamic analysis of network traffic features provides a means for detecting anomalies related to novel intrusions, however, is challenged by data storage, real-time querying, and processing constraints. Since a large proportion of features are irrelevant in determining specific intrusion characteristics, efficient algorithms can be constructed, based on bespokely selected features. In this talk, we discuss a variety of current computational methods, and their pitfalls, for selecting real-time feature subsets over a range of different network attack types. In doing so, we highlight a novel capability being developed at Sandia National Laboratories for network traffic intrusion detection

Toward Real-time Intrusion Detection In Cyber Networks

The National Cyber League is delighted to host a female-forward, ‘Women of the NCL’ webinar event to celebrate, motivate and encourage women in our cyber community. Witness the stories of inspiring women as they share their journeys to becoming cybersecurity professionals. The webinar will have a female-led panel representing women from industry and academia as well as current and former NCL Players.

Women of the National Cyber League: Engage, Celebrate & Uplift!

In this webinar with WiCyS strategic partner, Optum, you will learn examples of what social engineering looks like in the real world; helping even non-tech-savvy people to realize that deception may be closer than they think.

Let’s take a look at what Hollywood shows us in the movies - that may help the average person become more aware of the types of scenarios they can learn to identify themselves. When people learn how to protect themselves and their data at home, the safer organizations will be. It is a cyber win-win.

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What does Social Engineering Look Like?

The journey into Cybersecurity is not one-size-fits-all but can vary from person to person.  There are also several subfields within Cybersecurity that one may concentrate on, leaving many opportunities for everyone.  In this WiCyS strategic partner webinar with Huntress, Jamie Levy will cover how she found her way into this field and give tips for how to successfully choose the right path for you.

Stairway to DFIR: My Journey into Cybersecurity

Hear from women in the trenches! What’s it like to be a woman working in tech? Sarah Young, Senior Cloud Security Advocate, and Jess Dodson, Senior Cloud Security Architect - Engineering at Microsoft, a strategic WiCyS partner, will share their own experiences working in a field still dominated by men. Hear about the challenges they faced, how they worked their way up and the discrimination that still exists in the industry. Prepare to talk openly - not to shame, but to help us all be better and learn how to make cybersecurity an inclusive place where all can feel welcome.

Tales FromThe Tech Trenches V2.0

Meet five women (a moderator and four panelists) that would be stinking rich if they had a nickel for every time someone asked them if they needed a computer science degree for a career in cybersecurity. Yes, computer science degrees are sought after, but there are so many other roles, technical and not, that exist in cybersecurity companies that we need to talk about. This panel of women in Sales and Marketing from Fortinet, a leader in cybersecurity, will discuss their own career paths that brought them to where they are today. They will talk about what skills they look for on their teams and what makes a person stand out in this field. They’ll explore potential career paths they are considering and the best ways they have seen to transition into certain departments. Some of these may surprise you!

Join the discussion to learn about the exciting career paths in cyber, for both the technical and non-technical crowd.

I Wish Someone Had Told Me…  A Career In Cybersecurity Isn’t Just For Techies!

Join this interactive panel discussion where you will learn the most unique cybersecurity training and awareness programs internally at Microsoft, groundbreaking security research being conducted day in and day out, the handling of various investigations and threat hunting activities while creating detection controls and helping teams improve their detection capabilities and Microsoft Security Response Center.

In this webinar, WiCyS strategic partner Microsoft will introduce the incredible work being done across Microsoft Security by highlighting those making a difference.

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Behind the Scenes with Microsoft Security Panel

Space systems provide many critical functions to the military, federal agencies, and infrastructure networks. Space Policy Directive-5 Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems describes the cyber threat to space systems and the need for these systems to be secure and resilient against cyber-attacks. Cyber defenses for space systems must be implemented in size, weight, and power (SWAP)-constrained, real-time operating environments that cannot tolerate increased latency and other common detrimental side-effects of cyber defenses. 

In this webinar, WiCyS strategic partner Sandia National Laboratories will discuss these challenges. They have been researching moving target defenses (MTD) to protect space systems against cyber-attacks. MTDs create dynamic, uncertain environments on space systems and can be used to defeat cyber threats against these systems. Furthermore, MTDs do not require the detection of an adversary to mitigate the effects of an attack.

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Moving Target Defense for Space Systems

Cyber attacks are rising against critical infrastructure systems and have serious implications for our national security. In addition, many interconnected systems are becoming increasingly cyber-physical due to modernization efforts. For example, the electric grid has rapidly evolved with smart grid technologies, wide-area monitoring capabilities, and advanced automation. Therefore, it is crucial to understand the impact of multi-hazard events such as cyber-attacks and extreme weather on these cyber-physical systems.

In this webinar, WiCyS strategic partner Sandia National Laboratories will discuss approaches for incorporating cyber-physical analysis in electric grid response and defense mechanisms for increased situational awareness, improved response, and resilience. This will include ongoing research and development overviews for cyber-physical anomaly detection, cyber-physical data fusion, cyber-physical mitigation deployment, and characterizing cyber-physical system interdependencies.

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Improving Electric Grid Cybersecurity with Cyber-Physical Analysis

Ready to cut to the chase and catch the OWASP (open web application security project) top 10 issues early in development to avoid future headaches? Check out this WiCyS strategic partner webinar by the Semgrep's security researcher, Colleen Dai, and software engineer, Emma Jin, as they share their personal experiences catching OWASP top 10 and how they do it. During this session, this dynamic duo will perform a live demo to showcase the bug detection and security tips they WISHED they had known about earlier in their careers!

How to Catch the OWASP Top 10 Early in the Development Process

Previous studies have shown that the representation of women in cybersecurity is not where it should be, but it is not as clear why this is the case, or how exactly we can improve matters. In collaboration with the DEI firm Aleria, WiCyS is launching a pioneering study to understand the real causes of disparities in the experiences of women in cybersecurity, and to help us understand how best to pinpoint and remove the barriers that keep women from being recruited, hired, retained and promoted at the same rate as men. Join our 30-minute webinar on January 25 at 1 pm CT to learn about Aleria’s approach to measuring inclusion, why measuring inclusion is much better than focusing on diversity alone, and how we will leverage this unique methodology to develop a benchmark study on the "State of Inclusion for Women in Cybersecurity".

Measuring the State of Inclusion of Women in Cybersecurity

What exactly is security logging and monitoring for an organization? Join Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) strategic partner, The Home Depot, as Lu Qiao, principal systems engineer, dives into the key components in a logging and monitoring architecture and the log life cycle. Learn about the considerations to take when monitoring hybrid environments, how Zero Trust shapes the future of security logging and monitoring, and if it's still valid to centralize all the logs into the Security Information Event Management (SIEM) platform. This webinar is one that's not to be missed as it's jam-packed with information on advanced analytics, security automation/orchestration and more!

Visibility, Analytics and Automation through Security Logging and Monitoring

Cecile Mengue (IBM) took an unconventional path into the hacker field and will give a unique insight into pathways to cybersecurity in this webinar. 

Join WiCyS Strategic Partner IBM on January 17 to look into various ways of entering this career. 

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A Career in Cyber Security: My Unconventional Path

The ways we live and do business are interconnected and networked. In this digital landscape, in what ways can we stay safe online when the threats are often hidden? 

Join WiCyS strategic partner Cisco to learn how to secure yourself online.

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What Does or Does Not Protect You

Securing your home does not just mean securing the wireless router with a strong password anymore. It refers to protecting your home network, including all the devices connected to the internet and each other within the home, and making sure the attack surface is reduced significantly for a malicious actor to launch a successful attack. 

In this webinar, WiCyS strategic partner Cisco will present simple but effective techniques to help secure your whole home network.

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Securing Your Home Network

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

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