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Celebrating Women In Cybersecurity with Saltanat Mashirova

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In today’s episode, I speak with Saltanat Mashirova a national of Kazakhstan who works as an Advanced Cyber Security Architect/Engineer at Center of Excellence and Innovation, Dubai Honeywell (Critical Infrastructure), President of ISACA Nur-Sultan Chapter, and Founder of Women in Cybersecurity Kazakhstan.

Saltanat is an award-winning ICS Cyber Security leader, speaker, and women’s change agent in Kazakhstan.

Her current focus is ICS Cyber security consulting, ICS Secure architecture development and onsite implementation, Conducting ICS Trainings, OT infrastructure assessment/remediation, and Network Engineering in various fields of Oil, Gas, and Energy Industries.

Saltanat is a member of Advisory Board at Siberx (Canada), Member of 1st Global Cybersecurity Observatory, Mentor at IQanat, CISSP Mentor, Member of 2022 Judges at IFSEC Global – Security & fire safety news, Mentor of Global Mentoring for Cybersecurity (GMFC) Program 2022, etc. Apart from that, she is a speaker/ role model/ panelist/trainer of different events about cybersecurity internationally.

Key points:

  • Fatimah piques Saltanat’s thoughts on the underrepresentation of women in cyber security. Saltanat talks about cultural and family restrictions,      gender-based opportunities, and other causes. She shares her personal experience: how she juggled, and still juggles, work and family obligations      [3.05-8.45].


    • Saltanat tells us how her interest in cybersecurity developed. She mentions her love for challenges and shares an intriguing revelation about herself; how she entered into the industry and got to where she is. She doesn’t fail to give women some secrets to hitting big in the industry. [10.25-15.30]


      • Saltanat addresses people who have an interest in cybersecurity but lack the educational background, certifications, or experience. She shares the various domains and non-technical sides available to start with and offers advice that could birth tremendous growth in the industry [17.29-20.52].


        • Saltanat shares her opinions on how companies should handle the issue of diversity and inclusion. Her advice can be summed up as building an inclusive workspace [27.10-27.48].


          • Saltanat says it is very important to get a mentor, and shares her experience. She got into the field without any mentoring. A tough experience. She expounds on the benefits of mentorship [28.33-30.47].

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