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Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is offering several scholarships, grants and fellowship awards for members to attend its eighth annual conference Sept. 8-10, 2021, in Aurora, Colorado. WiCyS brings together women in cybersecurity from academia, research, government and...

From speakers to student research posters, Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is calling for participation in its conference Sept. 8-10, 2021, Aurora, Colorado. WiCyS aims to impact diversity in the cybersecurity workforce through recruiting, retaining and advancing...

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) and the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP) are excited to team up with Target to help expand access to the National Cyber League (NCL) virtual competition and training program for 500 women and BIPOC...

Cybersecurity Ventures announced that Dr. Ambareen Siraj, professor of Computer Science and founding director of the Cybersecurity Education, Research and Outreach Center (CEROC) at Tennessee Tech University, has been named 2020 Cybersecurity Person Of The Year. Dr....

When Lasya Sreenivasan applied to high school in 2016 in Phoenix, Ariz., she was reticent to go into computer science. Both parents worked in the field, and, said Sreenivasan, “I had this idea from what I saw in movies that computer scientists worked on their laptops...

As our nation responds to the COVID 19 pandemic, the outbreak presents an opportunity to reflect and review how our nation is preparing for other possible or potential catastrophic events, or seemingly unimaginable events, such as a war in space. The United States is...

In this episode of the Cybrary Podcast we sit down with Dr. Ambareen Siraj, the founder of WiCyS - a non profit whose purpose is to bring women together in cybersecurity. Speaking with Amanda and Angel from the Cybrary team, Dr. Siraj goes through her history in...

On today’s show, host Christopher Gorog has a conversation with Ambareen Siraj, PhD, Professor and Director of Cybersecurity Education Research & Outreach Center Comp Science at Tennessee Tech and Founder/Chair at WiCyS . They discuss computer science and...

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) has partnered with Google to create the Security Training Scholarship for women wanting to move forward in cybersecurity. “Google is proud to partner with WiCyS and SANS to provide scholarships to WiCyS community members for premier...

For years there have been well documented discussions about the need to expand gender and racial diversity in cybersecurity. People have argued that if we address social and systemic issues separately, we will get the technology right. However, the social and the...