7 Women Leading the Charge in Cybersecurity Research & Analysis - Dark Reading

VULNERABILITIES & THREATS 7 Women Leading the Charge in Cybersecurity Research & Analysis From rising stars to veterans heading up research teams, check out our profiles of women making a big impact in cyber defense as the threat landscape expands. Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer March 27, 2023 8 Slides START SLIDESHOW SOURCE: DARK READING COLLAGE While cybersecurity does suffer from a gender gap by the numbers, there are many notable women out in the field kicking butt and taking names.  Women are increasingly playing a huge role in many cybersecurity organizations — from entry-level analysts all the way up to CISOs and risk executives. In honor of Women's History Month, Dark Reading takes a look at seven women who are on the front lines of security research and analysis.  Some of them are rising stars, others are veterans heading up research teams and penning reports that will influence the future of cybersecurity strategies and defensive techniques. All of them are worth following for their insights. Read on for profiles of: Natalie Silvanovich, Team Lead & Security Engineer, Google Project Zero Tal Folkman, Security Researcher, Checkmarx Marta Janus, Principal Adversarial ML Researcher, Hidden Layer Yesenia Yser, Senior Software Security Engineer, OpenSSF Alpha-Omega Project Zoë Brammer, Cyber & Information Operations Senior Analyst, Institute for Security & Technology Maya Horowitz, Vice President of Research, Check Point Software Charlotte Siska, Senior Applied Machine Learning Researcher, Microsoft START SLIDESHOW About the Author Ericka Chickowski, Contributing Writer Ericka Chickowski specializes in coverage of information technology and business innovation. She has focused on information security for the better part of a decade and regularly writes about the security industry as a contributor to Dark Reading. 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