Category Archives: women in cybersecurity

Niloofar Howe, Chief Strategy Officer, RSA Niloofar Howe has a lot to balance as the cybersecurity landscape shifts. As Chief Strategy Officer for RSA, she’s responsible for the health and direction of the business, as well as figuring out a way large incumbent companies like RSA can work with a broad set of companies to deliver on the changing needs of her customers. Howe has learned how to hone in on strategies by working alongside former government leaders, including former NSA Director Lt. General Ken Minihan during her time at Paladin Capital Group. Now, she’s busy ensuring RSA is well positioned to deliver globally . Can you talk about the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your career? How did you conquer that challenge? There isn’t one good answer to this question because professional challenges change as you progress in your career. As I progressed and earned a seat at the […]

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Amanda Rousseau, Malware Researcher, Endgame Amanda Rousseau’s job puts her knee deep in the guts of malware. A research engineer at Endgame, Rousseau’s history includes two years at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center as a malware reverse engineer and computer forensic examiner. Malware is weird and ever changing, so we talked to Rosseau about exactly what she’s seen and where she’s looking next. What’s the most interesting or powerful malware you’ve seen? I actually have a couple of my favorites. They’re all APT malware. Everyone knows Stuxnet and Flame from the same creators, some of the most advanced malware out there. I particularly like the more multi-platform type of malware, kind of like the Careto mask. It was a multi-stage attack, it had payloads for both Windows and OS X and it could be run on Linux as well. I thought that was quite interesting. These guys thought about going after whatever environments a […]

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Suzanne Vautrinot, President, Kilovolt Consulting; Wells Fargo board member, Major General and Commander, United States Air Force (retired) Suzanne Vautrinot retired from the U.S. Air Force in Oct. 2013 as a major-general and commander of the 24th Air Force, where she’d been in charge of the USAF’s cyber war-fighting capability. During the three decades since her graduation from the Air Force Academy, Vautrinot served as special assistant to the vice chief of staff of the USAF and had senior cyber jobs, including director of plans and policy at U.S. Cyber Command. After retirement, she dived headfirst into the private sector and joined the board of directors of several companies, leveraging her leadership skills and cyber expertise for the Wells Fargo bank, computer security firm Symantec, engineering and project management giant Parsons, water and energy services provider Ecolab and cutting-edge technology research outfit Battelle. Each of the five companies “represents a completely different […]

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Amelie Koran, ‎U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General Societal biases are not always apparent to those who aren’t exposed to them on a daily basis. Amelie Koran has had experience dealing with these biases from multiple angles. As one of the first transgendered advocates inside the White House, she’s been working past those biases as much as she’s been working to set out the IT strategy for various segments of the federal government. Now at HHS, she works to modernize the agency’s infrastructure, implement best practices, and push the security community to navigate through their own biases.  Can you talk about the biggest challenge you’ve faced in your career? How did you conquer that challenge? For me, I’m transgendered. So I managed to go so far in my career, and transitioned, and was told by a number of people that doing so would be a career ender. […]

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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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