Women in IT Security

Said Mandiant's senior vice president of strategy and alliances: "I recognize that at critical points in my life people leant me a hand, and I want to do that for others."

Said UnitedHealth Group's chief privacy officer: Synergy between privacy and security leaders on a regular basis is critical “because it's truly important that we’re not operating in silos.”

Said USC recruiter Rachel Harpley: "While I cannot fix the entire industry and often feel like an umbrella in a hurricane, it is interactions with driven and curious job seekers that remind me of how meaningful it can be to share shelter in a storm."

Said the founder of Sphere: "“We learned very early on that you have to play ball with market-leading products; you have to make sure that you can add value to those technologies while solving a unique problem yourself.”

Said Code42's chief information security officer and CIO: “We don’t want to solely focus on stopping collaboration or blocking things, but more focus on securing the collaboration culture.”

Said the adviser for Safe Security and advisory board member of Code 42: "At the end of the day, you can be the smartest cybersecurity person in the room, but if you don't care about it, you're not going to do your best job."

Said the head of the global compliance and regulatory practice at Octillo: “I think to myself when I’m saying to a little girl, ‘This is what an IT professional looks like, this is what a cyber lawyer looks like’ – that alone can really change perspectives."

Said Forescout's chief customer officer about her transition away from technical work to leadership: "When I want it I can grab it. When there's a deep technical issue, I can sit down and say, ‘OK, help me understand this.’ And I do find customers that appreciate when I come back."