Said the chief security officer of Citizen Bank: “Being in the law enforcement and intelligence communities years ago has provided me with a very strong baseline into what we’re seeing the financial industry now.”

Said Night Dragon's vice president of business development and strategic alliances of finally finding female colleagues: "At that point I realized how empowered I felt to have someone that resembled me in my world.”

Said Cybrary's chief impact officer: “It’s time to support one another by providing career support and access for all marginalized genders to obtain any position and title while working in cybersecurity and tech.”

"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."

Said the vice president of global security and privacy risk management role at Reinsurance Group: "I’ve always organically wanted growth in my career to happen, so every two to three years, I would find myself in conversations with my boss about what’s next? What opportunities, what challenges, what can I help with?”

Many of the solutions Target developed — with 17 patents secured and more pending — comes down to "getting out of the way of these really smart people on my team," says the company's vice president of cybersecurity.

The co-founder of Menlo Security described the mantra simply: That “isolation is the only way you should connect to the internet.” And it's resonating: Nine out of the 10 largest banks are Menlo customers. "Wells Fargo is the holdout.”