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What is the best lesson you’ve learned as a woman in cybersecurity/cyber risk?
What is the best advice you would like to share with other women in the industry?
I strongly recommend the tech industry hire more women and give them additional training, ensuring psychological safety and options for remote work opportunities. I have learned throughout my career that we must create a more equitable workplace by recruiting and retaining more women at different levels including leadership positions. This also always gives positive learning experiences to educate and encourage women to think of themselves as the next-generations of leaders in the tech industry, ready to solve the most fundamental issues in the future and enhance creativity.
Also, we need to conduct more workshops periodically to discuss the advancements in tech companies to promote gender equality. I am so proud to be a part of RiskLens because its culture embraces women’s voices and leadership which encourages me to achieve and contribute to society.
What are you doing to help “Embrace Equity” and further gender equality?
I encourage my community to be self-confident and emphasize that diversity can enhance problem-solving strategies and bring ideas and innovation to our society. I encourage women to improve digital literacy daily and be vigilant and effective in ways to raise voices. Finally, I believe that businesses grow faster when we involve more women of color in leadership positions.
How would you assess the status of women in the tech field today? What are the main challenges or opportunities?
What needs to happen to truly advance women’s careers (and well-being and satisfaction) in the tech field moving on from here?
Progress can and will happen for those who are proactive and intentional when it comes to hiring and team-building. Diversity makes teams stronger and perform better. I hope organizations not only take this proactive approach in building teams but also supporting them. Women absolutely should be on equal footing when it comes to compensation and programs/efforts should be established to provide mentorship and advance them into leadership positions.