Introduction: A brief history of female intelligence operatives and cyber threat intelligence leaders from all over the world and a challenge to the audience to keep these key points in mind for discussion after the presentation:
- As you honor the contributions of the threat intelligence experts in this overview, keep mental notes of how they embraced traditional and nontraditional masculine and feminine traits to accomplish their mission.
- Challenge yourself to check thoughts of bias, social conditioning and the temptation to judge based on very limited information about the individuals being portrayed.
- At the end of this presentation, we will discuss the power of diversity and equanimity in a world class Threat Intelligence Team.
Female Intelligence Operatives and Leaders
State of Affairs - statistics about women in senior leader positions and what we can do to continue to improve the odds of women being successful in threat intelligence and cyber security
- Recruiting efforts to reduce bias in job descriptions, necessary skills, education, certifications, "right fit", etc.
- Number of female CEOs, CISOs
- Number of women on boards of directors - certification courses to help you prepare
Answering the call is critical, even if you don’t see the path to your intended outcome.- Disaster medicine - fraud (benefits of being a female firefighter)
- 911 Commission - we brought teams together to correlate intelligence and investigations in very creative ways
- Combating botnets and nation state attacks at a global level
- Sim Swap cases - information sharing across industry and sectors
Building a world-class threat intelligence program - Training teams to challenge outcomes, grow, learn, reduce and be aware of bias
- Partnering with key stakeholders inside and outside the company
- Presenting to senior leadership and the CISO Advisory Board
- Laying the foundation for diversity, inclusion and bringing people from underrepresented populations into the field through mentorship, training, networking, hiring