Category Archives: Top Women In Cybersecurity 2017

Jessy Irwin, VP of Privacy and Security, Mercury LLC If you’ve ever been too an information security conference, you’ve probably seen a t-shirt that said, “there’s no patch for human stupidity.” That iffy diss—and lame t-shirt—about sums up the icy tone the security community has taken over the last few decades when it comes to users. Figuring out a newer and more effective approach is the burgeoning field in which Jessy Irwin, the vice president of privacy and security at Mercury, works. Instead of the same old people talking down to users, Irwin advocates for the “weirdest and most strange, diverse groups of people” at work in security, all the better to deal with the weird, strange and diverse users that end up with the products they build. Why are security professionals so bad at the human question? I think people are bad at the ‘people’ question. I think much of […]

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Ann Barron-DiCamillo, Vice President, Cyber Threat Intelligence & Incident Response, American Express Having spent time in both the public and private sector, Ann Barron-DiCamillo has a unique outlook on the way the greater cybersecurity community should work together. Currently serving as the Vice President of Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Response at American Express, she is busy finding the “low hanging fruit” in which the company can improve its cybersecurity posture as well as introducing new ways for analysts to automatic security processes. By getting rid of the easy stuff and making the harder stuff simple, she is allowing that fosters innovation allows for agility in addressing the fluidity in the cyber landscape. It’s something she learned during her time in government as director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness team. Can you talk about the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your career?  I think the biggest challenge I’ve faced is something […]

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