Cybersecurity & Diversity – Jackie Abrams, Gabe Gumbs, Mandy Logan, Susan Bosco – ESW #209
How bad is the diversity problem in the Cybersecurity industry? Have we made any progress or is it all talk? In this special Enterprise Security Weekly segment, we are joined by industry professionals to learn where have we been, where do we need to be, and how do we get there?
Announcements
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Guests
As Spirion’s Chief Innovation Officer, Gabriel imagines and create technology that pushes data security technology forward in an increasingly complex digital world. Responsible for seeing where data security is going next and ensuring that organizations of all sizes are able to get there. With a 18+ year tenure in CyberSecurity, he has spent most of that time as a security practitioner, aligning security innovations with business objectives for Fortune 100 organizations, today Gabe is responsible for spearheading innovation across the organization through thought and product leadership.
Jackie Abrams focuses on solving big-picture threat intelligence challenges through industry collaboration and innovative solution design. Responsible for the product vision at DomainTools, she leads the team to deliver data, intelligence, and tools to help our users make the Internet a safer place.
Before joining DomainTools, she leveraged her OSINT research and digital investigations experience to develop products and services in support of mobile threat assessment for text messages and message senders. Jackie is a graduate of Cornell University and is an active supporter of the Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG), where she collaborates with threat intelligence and abuse mitigation practitioners on solving industry-wide problems in the digital services and ISP space.
Susan Bosco is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Professor of Management and has been at the Mario J. Gabelli School of Business for 20 years.? She has consulted for a variety of companies in areas such as Customer Service, Project Management, Teamwork, Leadership, and Process Improvement. Dr. Bosco teaches Management Principles, Organizational Behavior, International Organizational Behavior and Managing Workplace Diversity.
Advanced, multi-faceted professional with background in SWPP, construction management, functional architect/engineer to field liaison ship, commercial design, and marketing/business development. Re-entering world following fantastic recovery from intense injuries. Using experience and drive to focus on data science, tech development for non-verbal autistics, biohacking and building up the information security community. I’m a fighter, a comic, and a re-abled person through and through, with desire for positive change everywhere I go.