Target's vice president of cybersecurity, Jodie Kautt, shared her rationale for encouraging her team to think beyond the retailer for community-wide impact.
To ensure more diversity and eliminate gender bias, companies may want to rethink how they write job descriptions, conduct interviews and evaluate candidates and their abilities.
Women, cybersecurity and power: for decades it's been a rare brew. While the status quo is still rife with inequality and injustice, female leaders driving the decision making in corporate board rooms, the halls of government and policy and in the investment arena are becoming a more common sight.
The most important dialogs for recruitment happen in person, informally, in the bathrooms at conferences and over drinks at networking events. There may not be a Yelp for how companies treat women, but there is a grapevine.
"My goal is to shift the paradigm from plain-old public-private partnership to true operational collaboration; from information-sharing to information-enabling," the CISA director to SC Media. "This is in part the focus of the new Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) — bringing the power of the federal government with the power of industry to prevent incidents before they occur, and ensure a rapid and coordinated response when they do."
The cybersecurity investor who sits on multiple boards and advises the Defense Department and Congress calls the amount of money flowing into the industry unprecedented. “It used to be that when we had five, six billion a year flowing into the market from a venture capital perspective that was a good year for us. We’re headed towards somewhere between 15 to 20 billion coming into the cybersecurity industry."
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