Women in Security Podcast

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Welcome to the Women in Security Podcast! This podcast is devoted to the world of information & cyber security and the great women who make it turn. In each episode, I sit down with a guest speaker to discuss their experiences and touch on some of the lesser known aspects of the industry. We'll shed light on the routes to the various technical and non-technical roles in this space, as well as exploring the skillsets required to be successful.

  1. 05/12/2020

    S2E7 - Samana Haider on Security Research and Education

    Samana Haider is a Manager at Forcepoint's Security Labs. She is originally from Pakistan and has been living in Ireland for the last 16 years, and working in the security industry for the last 10 years. She graduated in Mathematics and Statistics, and holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science. She believes in giving back to the community, and has been in the local school board for the last number of years. She has worked closely with the school management as well as the parents, working on various issues that are faced on day-to-day basis by the school teachers students and parents. She is also involved with ISC2's  initiative for online safety for children, more  details can be found here: https://www.safeandsecureonline.org/ ISC2 Safe & Secure https://enroll.isc2.org/product?catalog=CCSE-SafeSecureOnline-Global

    29 min

  2. 04/20/2020

    S2E6 - Orla Cox on evolution of Cyber, Post Mortem and Zero Days.

    Orla Cox is a security professional with over 20 years experience in cyber security. Most recently Orla was Director of Content Development at Symantec, where she was at the forefront of investigations into some of the most well-known cyber threats, such as Stuxnet and WannaCry. Orla speaks regularly at industry conferences and customer events on the subject of internet security and cyber threats, and has represented Symantec as a media spokesperson on topical security issues. Podcast mentioned in this episode - https://symantec-blogs.broadcom.com/podcasts/symantec-cyber-security-brief-podcast Zero Days movie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Days

    29 min

  3. 03/30/2020

    S2E5 - Laura Fitzgerald on networking and transferable skills

    In this episode, I sat down with Laura Fitzgerald, Principal Legal Counsel in Forcepoint, a global cyber security company. Laura is a lawyer based in Dublin and leads the EMEA legal function and has responsibility for the global engineering Centres of Excellence. In 2019, Laura was the only Irish woman selected by Banco Santander for the World 50, where she attended UCLA Anderson School of Management Executive Leadership programme designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders for service as board directors and as senior industry leaders.

    24 min

  4. 03/10/2020

    S2E4 - Denise Murtagh on enabling the business, and OWASP

    Denise has been working in the IT industry for 15 years, with almost 10 specifically in IT Security. She has a BSc in Software Development and a MSc in Computer Security and Forensics from Dublin City University.   In addition to being a busy mother of 3, Denise works in the Information Security team at Facebook, before Facebook she held positions at PwC, Ulster Bank, Citrix Systems and Jenkinson Agencies.   Denise is the OWASP Dublin Chapter lead and has a passion for all things security. You might catch her reading a tech book or two in what little spare time is available :-) For more details on OWASP: https://owasp.org/ To find out more about the monthly OWASP events: https://www.eventbrite.ie/o/owasp-dublin-chapter-10715647113

    26 min

  5. 02/18/2020

    S2E3 - Jennifer Cox on life, time management, dreams and goals

    Jennifer Cox has 14 years of experience in tech and in the Cyber Security industry. She works with techies across all of EMEA in enabling best practices and cyber exposure prevention. Jennifer is an advisory board member of the Leaders in Tech Ireland, WITS Ireland (Women in Technology and Science Ireland) and works hard to insure diversity and inclusion within her industry by partaking in roles such as Judging at the Coolest Projects event for kids in the RDS, speaking at Women in Tech in Sept 2019 in front of an audience of 1200, launching a mentoring project in Tenable and participating in the Irish Independent Newspaper women in tech podcast special as one of 4 women featured in the special and interviewed by the Sunday Independent Editor Samantha McCaughren.  Outside of the above she has found time to be promoted in 2019, which will be her fourth in three years, in her Security role in Tenable. She always finds the time to support causes that interest her outside of her work and most especially causes that are of social impact. She doesn’t believe anyone should be limited, least of all by a social label and intends to prove this in her own behaviour. She is continuing to work on her STEM degree in her ‘free’ time and is a testament to what women are capable of. She has been shortlisted 7 times for a variety of technical awards including most recently Business Role Model of the year.

    49 min

  6. 01/28/2020

    S2E2 - Joanne O'Connor on Cyber Ireland, Cyber Women Ireland and Galway

    Joanne O'Connor brings her experience in public relations, UX, and project management to her current role as Cyber Security Training and Education officer at HPE. She is the lead of Cyber Women Ireland – which at a country level looks to encourage the advancement and capacity of women involved in all aspects of the Irish security sector and security community, through the exchange of information and the cultivation of productive relationships. Joanne was nominated to represent Ireland in the ECSO – European Cyber Security Organization initiative ‘Women4Cyber’ which launched in Jan 19’. Joanne is also a board member of Cyber Ireland. She was named in SC magazine as one of the Top 50 Women in Cyber in Europe 2019. She has spent the last year working on introducing Cyber Security Education into the Irish school system with the 'Cyber Ireland Schools Academy.'

    45 min

  7. 01/07/2020

    S2E1 - Eimear Nelis on identity transformation and information sharing and a 2nd career.

    .Coming from a previous career as a University Research Academic and Professional Archaeologist, Eimear made the jump to Cybersecurity about 10 years ago; since then, she’s held Senior Management roles across Information Security, Privacy and Data Governance, and is currently focused on Identity and Access Governance. A self-confessed life-long learner, she also has special interests in Strategy/Policy Development, Organisational Culture/Change, as well as Creativity and Innovation Management. An original ‘Derry Girl’, Eimear is now based in Dublin.

    35 min

  8. 12/17/2019

    S1E10 - Louise O Hagan on Cyber Psychology, and how to identify phishing emails

    Louise O Hagan is the Education Officer in CyberSafe Ireland, which is a not-for-profit organisation, established in 2015, that works to educate children, parents and teachers to navigate the online world in a safe way  -She has a masters in Cyberpsychology and is in write up phase of a PhD in the human element of cybersecurity ( her research is specifically on how human are exploited for data online in illegal contexts phishing emails, social media brand pages and legal contexts clickwrap terms and conditions and browsewrap cookies ). also part-time education and awareness officer in UK company creating e-learning material for their employees. For more details on how to identify phishing emails, please click here.

    30 min
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Welcome to the Women in Security Podcast! This podcast is devoted to the world of information & cyber security and the great women who make it turn. In each episode, I sit down with a guest speaker to discuss their experiences and touch on some of the lesser known aspects of the industry. We'll shed light on the routes to the various technical and non-technical roles in this space, as well as exploring the skillsets required to be successful.

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