DATE: Aug 4th,2021 / 12:30-1:30 PM PST
DURATION: 60 minutes
FORMAT: Virtual Panel with Q & A
DESCRIPTION:
Please join WISP for this event on how to hire diverse Infosec and privacy teams. It is common to see a massive under-representation of women, people of color, and those with visible and hidden disabilities.
While the need for diverse teams is much talked about, there is little guidance for those who are tasked with recruiting a diverse workforce for their companies.
We will discuss how to approach this diverse and multifaceted topic, as well as the advantage of masked interviews and steps to take when hiring from a panel of speakers from diverse backgrounds, with different perspectives. We will also have time for Q&A at the end, time permitting.
Moderator/ Host: Elena Elkina
Elena Elkina, co-founder and board member of Women in Security and Privacy (WISP) and a Partner at Aleada Consulting, where she advises clients on privacy, data protection, and information security issues.
Elena is known for her entrepreneurial approach to driving business performance while protecting information and serving as a trusted adviser for her clients. During her 20-year legal career, she has worked with financial and healthcare institutions, software and internet companies, major law firms, and the government sector on both international and domestic levels.
Elena’s own career path in privacy and data protection was long and winding, though her ultimate interest in privacy and data protection now seems obvious in some respects. She grew up in Arzamas-16, a Soviet secret city instrumental in nuclear research. From a young age, she understood the ability of powerful institutions and governments to intrude into our lives, and learning about privacy and security gave her the perspective and tools to address that imbalance.
After graduating from a law school in 2000 and practicing law for some time, Elena found the legal profession more reactive than her desire to build and innovate. She found her niche – privacy and data protection – where she is uniquely positioned to use her skills and desire to engineer solutions from a proactive approach.
Over the past decade, Elena has been focusing on creating global privacy and data protection programs, including developing and implementing regulatory frameworks, risk/gap assessments, maturity models, long-term roadmaps, and data protection policies; designing and employing de-identification and Privacy by Design data handling processes; and building priElena Elkina, co-founder and board member of Women in Security and Privacy (WISP) and a Partner at Aleada Consulting, where she advises clients on privacy, data protection, and information security issues.
Elena is known for her entrepreneurial approach to driving business performance while protecting information and serving as a trusted adviser for her clients. During her 20-year legal career, she has worked with financial and healthcare institutions, software and internet companies, major law firms, and the government sector on both international and domestic levels.
Elena’s own career path in privacy and data protection was long and winding, though her ultimate interest in privacy and data protection now seems obvious in some respects. She grew up in Arzamas-16, a Soviet secret city instrumental in nuclear research. From a young age, she understood the ability of powerful institutions and governments to intrude into our lives, and learning about privacy and security gave her the perspective and tools to address that imbalance.
After graduating from a law school in 2000 and practicing law for some time, Elena found the legal profession more reactive than her desire to build and innovate. She found her niche – privacy and data protection – where she is uniquely positioned to use her skills and desire to engineer solutions from a proactive approach.
Over the past decade, Elena has been focusing on creating global privacy and data protection programs, including developing and implementing regulatory frameworks, risk/gap assessments, maturity models, long-term roadmaps, and data protection policies; designing and employing de-identification and Privacy by Design data handling processes; and building privacy and security training and awareness programs. She has been working closely with development and business teams to build cloud, web, and mobile consumer and business products across the globe. Elena also served as a subject matter expert for companies that were subject to privacy-related regulatory enforcement actions, including consent decrees and cease and desist orders.
Before 3 partners founded Aleada, 3 partners, along with 4 other women, co-founded Women in Security and Privacy (WISP), a non-profit organization that aims to advance women and minorities in the privacy and security fields. Sharing knowledge and perspective, and lifting up women and people of color, has been one of Elena’s biggest priorities, and this was a guiding motivation for establishing WISP. After building a non-profit organization together and working together on complex privacy and data protection issues in the industries, they saw an opportunity to do privacy differently. Forming Aleada promised not only an exciting new challenge but also an opportunity to put her stamp on how the privacy and security profession might develop. This is why they built Aleada Consulting where they collected exceptional talents to build privacy and data protection solutions that meet their clients’ unique challenges.
Elena received her law degree from the University of Russian Academy of Education in Moscow, Russia. She received her LL.M. degree from Berkeley Law School, where she studied privacy, technology transactions, and international law. Elena is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPP/IT, CIPM).
Panelist include:
Dr. Chenxi Wang, Founder and General Partner of Rain Capital
Dr. Chenxi Wang is the Founder and General Partner of Rain Capital, an early-stage venture fund focused on Cybersecurity. A well-known operator, technologist, and thought leader in the Cybersecurity industry, Dr. Wang is a member of the Board of Directors for MDU Resources (NYSE: mdu) and strategic advisor to Aleada Consulting, Secure Code Warrior, and SC Media. Dr. Wang has a Ph.D. in computer science and is a contributor to Forbes and Dark Reading.
Lauren Zabierek, Executive Director of the Cyber Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center
Lauren Zabierek is the Executive Director of the Cyber Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. She comes to this role as a 2019 graduate of the Kennedy School's mid-career MPA program.
Lauren served as an intelligence officer in the United States Air Force at the beginning of her career. Later, as a civilian intelligence analyst with the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) assigned to the Office of Counterterrorism, she completed three war zone deployments. Throughout her six years at NGA, she became a subject matter expert on Activity Based Intelligence (ABI) and served as an adjunct professor in ABI at the NGA college.
After leaving NGA, she joined the cybersecurity threat intelligence startup Recorded Future, and was instrumental in building its Public Sector business practice. In her role as a Senior Intelligence Analyst, she fused intelligence methodologies with cybersecurity and machine learning technologies to help public and private sector customers improve their cyber posture. She also managed a team of analysts and worked alongside the Product Management and Training teams to improve her customers' experience with the software.
A Gold Star Sister, Lauren is committed to supporting families of the fallen and has volunteered several times as a mentor with the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS). She also co-founded the Recorded Future Women's Mentorship Initiative, helped to start a women's initiative at NGA, is a member of the NatSecGirlSquad, and is the co-founder of the online social media movement called #ShareTheMicInCyber, which aims to dismantle racism and sexism in cybersecurity and privacy.
Rich Noguera, Chief Information Security Officer at AppDynamics
Rich Noguera has been in Information Security for over 20 years. As a practitioner, his focus was on application security and penetration testing; and, as a leader, Rich implemented organizations that preserve and expand Customer Trust.
Before leading Information Security at AppD, Rich has been CISO twice before in High-Tech and Retail. And in recent times, his focus has been on protecting newly migrated or natively deployed applications/services in AWS or Azure.
When Rich is offline, he is either traveling with his family, at the track riding motorcycles, or watching WSBK or MotoGP
Deepti Hemwani, Head of Products at Dasera
Deepti has 15 years of Enterprise Networking and Security experience with strong collaboration and negotiation skills across development, test, marketing, and sales. At Dasera, she is responsible for driving innovation and differentiation via the long-term product road map, working closely with early customers to co-create solutions, and developing a world-class user experience.
She most recently worked at Cisco, where she led product management for Cisco's Firewall Management portfolio within their Security Business Group. She launched their Firewall Device Manager and drove adoption across the mid-market segment. She has also previously held technical marketing and various engineering roles that make her proficient in developing sales enablement and product positioning content.
Deepti believes in the principles of design thinking, focuses on user experience (UX), and customer persona needs. She has a unique ability to empathize with customers and channel partners while collaborating closely with sales, go-to-market, and engineering to build impactful products. Her customer-centric approach helped her secure a patent for Intelligent Graphical User Interface.
Deepti’s technical background coupled with a customer-first mentality puts her in a unique position to tackle complex challenges and bring a holistic methodology to her role as Head of Product.