Presented at
Diana Initiative 2022,
Aug. 10, 2022, 2:30 p.m.
(60 minutes)
Strengthening your network is essential no matter where you are in your career. This can be a daunting skill to hone as it takes initiative, time, and finding an approach that works best for you and your goals. There are different approaches for various career levels, as well as different approaches for online networking versus in-person networking events, like here at The Diana Initiative.</p> <p>Each speaker will share a story about one way networking has impacted them. Each speaker is at a different place in her career. Two of the speakers have pivoted to cybersecurity within the last five years and one is in a senior leadership role. After the three speakers share some of their stories and how networking impacted them, they will discuss specific Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) of effective networking for both in-person and virtual interactions. Additionally, strategies around what to do next after networking, how to balance, and how to say no to requests will be discussed. Finally, the speakers will close with a group structured workshop where there will be time to practice the learnings from the talk.
Presenters:
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Chris Lemmon
- Secure Yeti
Chris Lemmon is a cybersecurity consultant helping high-profile clients understand and enhance their security landscape. As an Advanced Security Engineer for Secure Yeti, Chris is passionate about conducting security assessments and pentests to provide her clients with actionable intelligence and planning. Chris is highly motivated to give back to the community as a mentor, continuing education instructor, and course developer for City Colleges of Chicago. She is enthusiastic about sharing her knowledge with others and leveraging her industry experience to help non-traditional students launch their cybersecurity careers.
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Meghan Jacquot
- Inspectiv
Meghan Jacquot is a cybersecurity professional and a curious lifelong learner with a commitment to sharing what she has learned. She is passionate about helping others, speaking at conferences to increase cyber awareness, and is particularly interested in cloud security, threat intelligence, investigating vulnerabilities, and the ethical use of data. She is President of WiCyS Mid-Atlantic Affiliate, Research Board Advisory Member for BBWIC Foundation, OWASP CFP reviewer, Staff at The Diana Initiative, and a SANS CFP Reviewer and CTF creator. To relax you also might see her visiting national parks, gardening, or hanging with her chinchilla. She’s happy to connect with others on LinkedIn, Twitter @CarpeDiemT3ch, and on her CarpeDiemT3ch YouTube channel.
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Alyssa Miller
- Epiq Global
Alyssa Miller is a hacker who, in her pre-teens, bought her first computer and hacked her way into a paid dial-up community platform. She grew up in hacker culture, finding her hacker family in IRC channels during her adolescent years. While IT was not her original career plan, she ended up working as a developer and later a penetration tester in the financial services industry. As she moved into consulting, her focus on defending technology systems and personal privacy grew to the point where she was advising fortune 100 companies on how to build comprehensive security programs.
Alyssa is now the CISO at New York based Epiq Global. Still very much a hacker to this day, she’s built on that identity to grow her career. She is an internationally recognized public speaker and author of “Cybersecurity Career Guide”. She’s an advocate for helping others make a career out of their passion for hacking and security in general. She’s also a proponent for the open sharing of ideas and perspectives on improving our technologically connected world.
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