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How do you succeed in cybersecurity? By learning how your leaders think! Built around the career-long reflections of Steve Zalewski, former CISO of Levi Strauss, this Specialization also features:
Nancy Wang, founder and CEO of AWIT; SVP and Head of Engineering at 1Password; Venture Partner at Felicis Ventures Renee Gottman, former CISO of Coca-Cola Lena Smart, former CISO of MongoDB Heather Hinton, former CISO of PagerDuty Manju Mude, former CISO of Splunk Gordon Yu, former CISO of Bedrock Security Swathi Joshi, VP of Security, Oracle Trisha Dixon, Cybersecurity Manager, Southwest Gas Corporation Paul Bingham, Executive Dean and former member of FBI Cybercrime Task Force
Sponsored by 1Password and Microsoft.
Advancing Women in Tech (AWIT) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to advancing everyone's careers.
Syllabus
- Course 1: The Cybersecurity Career Ladder
- Course 2: Cybersecurity Metrics, Vendors & Risks
- Course 3: Cybersecurity Teams, Influence & Legacy
Courses
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Sponsored by 1PASSWORD and MICROSOFT. No matter where you are in your career, gain direction and elevate your trajectory with AWIT. Learn how to succeed from working with security leaders, to being appointed CISO yourself. Featuring: * STEVE ZALEWSKI, former CISO, Levi Strauss * NANCY WANG, founder and CEO, AWIT; SVP, Head of Engineering at 1Password; Venture Partner at Felicis Ventures * TRISHA DIXON, former U.S. Navy cryptologist, former vice president of cyber operations, IronNet Cybersecurity * LENA SMART, head of trust at SecurityPal, former CISO of MongoDB * GORDON YU, former CISO of Bedrock Security You will learn: * How to become a CISO * How CISOs measure success * How CISOs manage vendors and risk * Optional: How to secure organizations with minimal budget * Optional: How to manage external auditors, scope policies appropriately, and achieve SOC 2 and ISO 97001
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Sponsored by 1PASSWORD and MICROSOFT. No matter where you are in your career, gain direction and elevate your trajectory with AWIT. Influence those in your organization above you and lateral to you, while building your team. Featuring: * STEVE ZALEWSKI, former CISO, Levi Strauss * NANCY WANG, founder and CEO, AWIT; SVP, Head of Engineering at 1Password; Venture Partner at Felicis Ventures * RENEE GOTTMAN, former CISO, Coca-Cola * GORDON YU, former CISO, Bedrock Security * MANJU MUDE, former CISO, Splunk You will learn: * How CISOs communicate with their CEOs, other executives, and their board of directors * How CISOs assemble and lead their security teams * How to start your own cybersecurity advisory business as a virtual CISO (vCISO) * The future of cybersecurity
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Sponsored by 1PASSWORD and MICROSOFT. No matter where you are in your career, gain direction and elevate your trajectory with AWIT. Understand and match yourself to the needs of your organization and its leaders. Featuring: * STEVE ZALEWSKI, former CISO, Levi Strauss * NANCY WANG, founder and CEO, AWIT; SVP, Head of Engineering at 1Password; Venture Partner at Felicis Ventures * PAUL BINGHAM, senior vice president and executive dean of Western Governors University; former member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Cybercrime Task Force * SWATHI JOSHI, vice president of SaaS cloud security at Oracle * GORDON YU, former CISO of Bedrock Security You will learn: * How security practitioners think * The cybersecurity career ladder * Differences in priorities across different security practitioners * Matching the correct security priorities to the correct organizations
Taught by
Nancy Wang and Steve Zalewski