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Women Who Cyber brings together a diverse group of aspiring and thriving cybersecurity professionals for dynamic and interactive events where they can network with peers, establish meaningful mentoring relationships, share knowledge, and enjoy unique experiences.
You’ll learn from, and be inspired by, our panel of influential women as they discuss how they broke through the glass ceiling and continue to pave the way for women to lead and excel in the industry. They’ll also discuss the unique challenges women face, as well as the importance of diversity and gender equality in the workplace.
Learn and be inspired as our panel of influential women discuss:
Death by Chocolate
After the discussion, a local, craft chocolate maker will share their expertise and demystify the techniques of flavor pairing and tempering chocolate. We’ll learn how to temper chocolate and create bark topped with local fruits and nuts, while chocoholics can explore the art of tasting with artisanal flavors from DC confectionary. Lunch will be provided.
Register now to support women in changing the face of cybersecurity!
Erin Leonard is Proofpoint’s Global Director of Sales Engineering for Sigma Information Protection. She has more than 15 years of experience with Information & Cyber Security, focused on enterprise risk and remediation. She started her career in enterprise compliance at Fidelity Investments and Iron Mountain Records Management before spending 10 years at RSA Security, focused on the Archer Governance, Risk and Compliance business. Erin’s background as a systems administrator, Professional Services consultant and Presales technical leader of security technology has given her the ability to view risk from people, process and technology perspectives. Erin graduated from the University of Vermont and received her MBA from Bryant University and her MSCIS from Boston University. She lives in the Boston area and has a passion for exercise and running – she has completed 8 full marathons including Boston, Chicago, Berlin and NYC.
Jothi Dugar is the current Acting Deputy Director where she shares in the leadership, management, and vision of CIT. As a member of the CIT senior leadership team, Jothi oversees mission-critical systems and services supporting basic and clinical research, extramural research management, and administration and management activities for the NIH. Prior to her Acting detail, Jothi served as CIT’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). As CISO, Jothi helped lead the award-winning NIH Cyber Safety campaign to embed cybersecurity into everyone’s day-to-day activities and raise awareness of cyber safe practices and tools across the enterprise. In addition, she has also led the first-ever Health & Wellness program at CIT and the NIH Office of the CIO to bring awareness to the importance of employee well-being and workforce development.Prior to serving as CIT’s first CISO, Jothi served as the first CISO at the NIH Clinical Center where she spent seven years establishing and leading the Information Security Office. The Clinical Center is the largest hospital in the country that is focused on biomedical research, serving thousands of patients from around the world. Jothi brings a wealth of experience, expertise and innovative solutions to address challenging issues. She is also a fierce advocate for diversity in the workplace and a public speaker on topics including the value of a diverse workforce, women in leadership, holistic approaches to cybersecurity, wellness for the technology world, and other topics. Jothi has been published in numerous magazines, media, and press. Prior to her NIH career, Jothi held positions at the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Internal Revenue Service, and a variety of private sector firms. Jothi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Margaret Meiman Layton (Meg) is currently serving in the role of Security Architecture and Engineering for Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC.. It was her work as Director of IT for a telecommunications company doing business in Africa that helped her to discover her passion for security (and her passion for travel!) at the height of the dot-com era. In 2001, she joined a start-up company that was acquired by Symantec, and she worked for close to two decades in various roles within the company - both on security products that worked on logging & event correlation, and working on the intelligence that fuels the front-line responders until she joined Children’s National. Meg has been a regular speaker at conferences, both nationally and internationally, on technical and security related topics, and can be heard occasionally on technical podcasts. Meg has a Doctorate of Information Assurance from the University of Fairfax, which she achieved in 2017 defending her dissertation “The Implementation of Double-Loop Learning: An Improvement on the Incident Response Process”. She has recently been published in the books “97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know” and “Reinventing Cybersecurity” In her spare time, she volunteers with several organizations in technology, such as Women in Technology, Women in CyberSecurity, and WSC (Women's Society of Cyberjutsu). She works to actively educate and promote lifelong learning, serving as a Technical Mentor for local CyberPatriot organizations, badge counselors for scouting organizations, as well as serving as Adjunct Professor for colleges where she teaches courses in Information Security, including Computer Forensics and Risk Assessment. You can find her on Twitter @vamegabyte or on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/meglayton.
Karen McDaniel is an Information Security professional with over 20 years of experience managing cyber security initiatives, education and awareness programs, security operations activities and delivering leadership performance metrics. In her current role, Karen is responsible for leading a team in the development and delivery of cyber training and education to the entire organization. She has a strong background in developing plans and evaluating cyber training/education courses, methods and techniques based on instructional needs that enhance overall program awareness effectiveness. Karen has consulted and coached cyber security project teams through organizational change management and project implementation efforts. She has led cross-functional teams and has excellent stakeholder and client relationship management skills. Throughout her career at Fannie Mae, Karen has participated in several Women’s Resource Engagement Group (ERG) initiatives. She was selected to attend the UCLA Anderson School of Management Women’s Leadership Institute, where she earned a Certificate in Management Leadership. Karen has a M.S in Information Management from Trinity Washington University and a B.S. in Information Technology from University of Phoenix.
