Women to Watch

While her formal education focused on business and psychology, Shira Rubinoff understood early on that there’s a clear intercept between psychology and technology: the human factor.

The impetus for Maggie Louie launching DEVCON, following a lengthy career as a musician, came from her uncovering a scheme involving hackers exploiting third-party JavaScript to steal ad revenue and distribute malware though partner code.

Trying to break into the largest company in the world leaves a lot of ground to cover.

Even though military service is compulsory for Israeli women, Tehlia said that when “served in the Army as a cybersecurity officer, I was often the only woman in the room. I knew it was wrong.”

Runa Sandvik, who left the New York Times about a year ago to return to her consultancy, attributes heightened awareness “to the experts who track threats and the journalists who write about them.”