Sandy Silk, Director of Information Security Education & Consulting at Harvard University, discusses how small actions can make big differences in securing our campus technologies. She offers three tangible action items we can do now to ensure we are taking the right precautions with our online lives and educational technology installations. Learn how tech managers can leverage InfoSec and risk management departments at their institutions in order to promote best practices.
Prior to Harvard University, Sandy worked in various information security risk management positions and led security education and outreach programs at Fidelity Investments, Bose Corporation, and Wellington Management Company. Learn more about what her and her colleagues are doing to support marginalized genders through the Harvard Women in Tech + Allies (HarvardWIT+) here: https://wit.abcd.harvard.edu.
As a proponent of Women in Technology, we discuss the importance of creating opportunities for inclusion. What are steps we can take in our departments to decrease the gender and minority gap? Listen to the very end to hear her advice for newer women in technology, and what they can do to prepare for success. Find the article by Gartner that Sandy references here: https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3947436.
Connect with Sandy Silk on LinkedIn or at her personal website, Cyber Risk and Resilience Consulting. Learn more about the Harvard University at http://www.harvard.edu and on Twitter at @Harvard.