Cybersecurity & Diversity – Jackie Abrams, Gabe Gumbs, Mandy Logan, Susan Bosco – ESW #209
How bad is the diversity problem in the Cybersecurity industry? Have we made any progress or is it all talk? In this special Enterprise Security Weekly segment, we are joined by industry professionals to learn where have we been, where do we need to be, and how do we get there?
Announcements
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Guests
As Spirion’s Chief Innovation Officer, Gabriel imagines and create technology that pushes data security technology forward in an increasingly complex digital world. Responsible for seeing where data security is going next and ensuring that organizations of all sizes are able to get there. With a 18+ year tenure in CyberSecurity, he has spent most of that time as a security practitioner, aligning security innovations with business objectives for Fortune 100 organizations, today Gabe is responsible for spearheading innovation across the organization through thought and product leadership.
Jackie Abrams focuses on solving big-picture threat intelligence challenges through industry collaboration and innovative solution design. Responsible for the product vision at DomainTools, she leads the team to deliver data, intelligence, and tools to help our users make the Internet a safer place.
Before joining DomainTools, she leveraged her OSINT research and digital investigations experience to develop products and services in support of mobile threat assessment for text messages and message senders. Jackie is a graduate of Cornell University and is an active supporter of the Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), where she collaborates with threat intelligence and abuse mitigation practitioners on solving industry-wide problems in the digital services and ISP space.
Susan Bosco is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Management and has been at the Mario J. Gabelli School of Business for 20 years.? She has consulted for a variety of companies in areas such as Customer Service, Project Management, Teamwork, Leadership, and Process Improvement. Dr. Bosco teaches Management Principles, Organizational Behavior, International Organizational Behavior and Managing Workplace Diversity.
Mandy/5urvivatrix is a hacker. She is also autistic, determined to combine principles of neurological functioning to enhance creation of sustainable and ethical AI, and focuses on development of tech for accessibility increase for non-verbal persons. Mandy survived injuries and 5 strokes and recreated a functioning body and brain through use of binary and her tongue pressure against her teeth. She passionately loves the InfoSec community and works to enhance diversity. Mandy founded Hacker Stand Up Comedy and speaks and volunteers at numerous conferences with her service animal, Trevor.
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