Boston BSides -  Roads to a Career in CyberSecurity
Channel: BSides Boston
Date: 19/07/2016

There is no single path to a successful career in cyber security. The security industry requires individuals with diverse sets of expertise and experiences - from analysts to engineers, from CISOs to marketers; just like the Women on this panel and the moderator. Deidre Diamond will moderate a panel of four women in the security industry as they each discuss how they built their career in different disciplines, all united by the common thread of cyber security. 

Topics of discussion will include: 
-Initial interest in security 
-First industry jobs 
-Job changes, lateral moves and growth
-Mentoring and inspiring others in the field

Deidre Diamond is the Founder and CEO of the national cyber security staffing company Cyber Security Network (CyberSN) and the Founder of not-for-profit thought leadership platform #brainbabe (brainbabe.org.) Prior to founding CyberSN and #brainbabe, she was the VP of Sales for the national technical staffing company Motion Recruitment, the first VP of Sales at Rapid7 (NYSE:RPD) and the CEO of Percussion Software. Because she herself was hired as an entry-level employee and trained to lead technology service organizations and cyber security software organizations, she believes the tech community needs to expand its awareness of what it means “to be in tech” and what it means “to be in cyber.” She desires to achieve a new way of hiring and retaining women in cyber security.

With a career spanning nearly 20 years, Sonia E. Arista is the Director of Information Security at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. There, she is the information security Subject Matter Expert and also has extensive experience driving program development, assuring operational readiness to address organizational data security risk, and supporting governance. She has previously presented at the Institute for International Research (IIR) in Chicago and holds a CISM and a B.B.A. in Management Information Sciences and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Southern Methodist University. She is a Founding Member of the Assc. for Executives in Healthcare Information Security (AEHIS) and a member of Massachusetts HIMSS, Mass Health Data Consortium and NAISG Boston.

Listed on Mass High Tech’s 20 Women to watch in Tech and Business, Lital Asher-Dotan is a Cyber Security expert that has a record of launching disruptive innovative technologies.

She leads the marketing team at Cybereason, a successful cyber security startup that received $86mm in funding last year and recently partnered with Lockheed Martin and the Japanese Conglomerate Softbank. The company grew 1200% in the past year and quadrupled its headcount. 

Previously, she worked at Rapid7 and led Procter and Gamble’s Open Innovation Program in Israel and Boston. Prior to that she was a non-commissioned officer in the 8200 cyber security unit of the Israel Defense Forces.

Sandy Carielli has over a decade of experience in the security industry, as a product manager, consultant and developer. Most recently, she was a Director of Product Management at RSA, where she was responsible for the SecurID portfolio and the Data Protection product line; she has also worked on security management products and solutions. She has also held positions at @stake (where she was regular contributor to the Application Security Center of Excellence) and BBN technologies. She has been a speaker at RSA Conference, NYSE Cyber Risk Board Forum, SOURCE Boston and BSides Boston. She has a Sc.B. in Mathematics from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Nazira Carlage is a Senior Manager, Product Security at EMC Corporation. She leads the EMC Product Security Response Center that is responsible for managing and resolving security vulnerabilities in EMC products. Additionally, she has responsibility to drive the strategy and execution of initiatives to manage various product security inquires from customers, as well as deliver security information to customers. 

She represents EMC Corporation at the Forum for Incident Response (FIRST) and SAFECode (www.safecode.org). She contributed to the development of CVSSv3 (https://www.first.org/cvss) and also the 2010/2011 CWE/SANS TOP 25 Most Dangerous Software Errors (http://www.sans.org/top25-software-errors/). 

She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science (Concentration in Security) from Boston University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Kyrgyz State Technical University. She is CISSP, GPEN, and GCIH certified.