The Women Changing Cybersecurity

In this month’s episode, Andy Still hands hosting duties over to Netacea’s cybersecurity content specialist, Yasmin Duggal, for a special edition of the podcast for International Women’s Day.

Just 16% of the cyber workforce is female, compared to 28 % in other UK digital sectors. So, Yasmin sat down with three women working across cybersecurity to find out why. The result is a conversation about gender stereotypes, breaking biases and working collectively to invite more young females in. Listen now on the latest episode of the cybersecurity sessions podcast.

Uma Rajagopal, Industry Security Specialist, Amazon

Uma is a dynamic information security leader with 20+ years IT industry experience, committed to enabling the business to achieve success while having confidence in the security and resiliency of their technology foundations. She is a cyber-champion who brings innovation to the safeguarding of customers, employees, and business interests and an industry specialist with deep technical and functional experience in managing and developing global teams and addressing multi-regional security requirements.

Aileen Ryan, Senior Director of Portfolio Strategy, Siemens EDA

Aileen’s executive career spans software engineering, operations and strategy with a variety of firms including Huawei, TM Forum, Motorola and Alcatel. She is widely recognized as a leader in the global tech industry, has been named by Silicon Republic as one of the top 25 Irish leaders in the Sci-Tech world, and by IT Security Guru as one of the most inspiring women in cybersecurity in 2021.

Paulina Cakalli, Lead Data Analyst, Netacea

Paulina works closely with Netacea’s Data Science and Threat Research teams to develop new models for detecting anomalous web traffic, combining this with machine learning to produce recommendations for clients. She is a rising star in the world of data science, encouraging other women to enter STEM careers via various speaking opportunities internationally. She is co-founder of BSides Tirana, an international security conference. She received her Master’s degree in Mathematics and Informatics Engineering at the University of Tirana where she was later an Assistant Lecturer.

Key questions

• Was cybersecurity a career path you were encouraged to pursue?
• What challenges have you faced as women in a male-dominated industry?
• Why do you think more young women don’t enter cybersecurity?
• How we collectively and individually work to break the bias against women in tech?

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