Women in Cyber: Shaping the Future of Security

Date: March 8, 2024
Time: 7:00 AM MST | 8:00 AM CST | 9:00 AM EST | 7:30 PM IST
Topic: Women in Cyber: Shaping the Future of Security

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Abstract: The scope of cybersecurity is growing in direct proportion to expansive digitalization across the globe, increasing the demand for qualified information security professionals. Nevertheless, even as the cybersecurity workforce remains diverse, the industry faces ongoing challenges in attracting a broader spectrum of professionals. The journey to success in cybersecurity as a career is often fraught with challenges, and difficulties associated with attracting a larger workforce further exacerbate the need for more qualified professionals amidst increasing cyberattacks.

 

Panelists :

Marlene Veum, Independent Cyber Security Consultant and Advisor, Web3 and Decentralized Technologies

Bio: Marlene Veum is a senior-level cyber security professional with vast experience providing strategic and technical direction in secure product and service delivery, architecture and assurance, risk management, and compliance oversight. She’s led multimillion-dollar security and technology initiatives, threat intelligence, and critical operations that support national and international IT enterprises and cloud services. She is also an expert in implementing secure architecture, identity and access management services, technical security controls, risk management, and compliance programs, following US and international banking, financial services, healthcare, export laws, and various privacy mandates.

Marlene has a track record of successfully leading secure cloud development operations in encryption standards, virtualization, configuration management, continuous monitoring, service reliability engineering, and vulnerability management. She has traveled to over 14 countries and performed audits, risk assessments, and forensic reviews as part of her international experience. She oversees mergers and acquisitions security assessments and integrations, ensuring that critical security vulnerabilities and audit findings are sufficiently mitigated in acquired products, services, and assumed IT infrastructure.

 

Maez de Guzman, Cybersecurity Leader

Bio: Maez leads one of the Big Four’s Global Delivery Services, the cybersecurity team in the Philippines, servicing their biggest clients globally. She is the first Certified Chief Information Security Officer in the Philippines. She has received numerous industry accolades, including ASEAN Top Women in Security for 2021 and 2022, the Philippines Top Women in Security for 2020, Global EPIC Women in Cyber, and Global Women Who Inspire Honorary, to name a few. She is a global thought leader, speaker, and member of the C|CISOs International Advisory Board, which comprises prominent and global industry leaders and top threat intelligence professionals from diverse sectors and globally known brands. She has lived and worked across the APAC region as a head of cybersecurity and threat intelligence. Maez is a seasoned, proven leader with extensive experience setting up cybersecurity centers of excellence, business transformations, and large-scale threat detection and response operations. She has a proven track record of integrating security into business and technology operations and helping global leaders address critical security and risk concerns.

 

Ljubica Pendaroska, Data Protection, Privacy and Data Management Consultant

Bio: Ljubica Pendaroska is a recipient of Cybersecurity Top 50 Women of Influence Europe for 2021 & 2019, a senior expert consultant, international trainer, and speaker in data management, personal data protection, and privacy. She is also the founder and president of Women4Cyber North Macedonia, part of the international cybersecurity community. She has served and led various projects as a senior expert at international bodies, such as the European Union, the World Bank, the UN, and UNICEF. Further, she has also governed data management and personal data establishment and operation within fast-growing public and private sector entities in Europe and the Middle Eastern countries. Based on the tailored training program she has built in her fields of expertise, she has also trained relevant employees within various future–and vision-oriented companies. Geographically, her work primarily focuses on Europe and the Middle East, with a key focus on the EU, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Oman.

 

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