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Diversity in Cybersecurity with Priya Senthilkumar and Yulini Persaud
A truly diverse workforce is required to protect companies and countries from a growing variety of cyber threats. However, according to a report from (ISC)2, the current cybersecurity industry is predominantly male and white, with only 26% of cybersecurity professionals identifying as ethnic and racial minorities, and only 14% identifying as female.
In one of our latest CERTIFIED Academy: IT webinars, we sat down with two incredible cybersecurity professionals: Priya Senthilkumar and Yulini Persaud.
Priya is currently the Vice President of Technology at Pearson VUE. She is a thought leader who has always stepped outside her comfort zone and taken risks in her career. Her journey at Pearson started in 2008 as a Project Manager and she has grown over the last 13 years into a leadership path, where she has not only grown personally but also developed other women leaders on her team. She serves on Women Leading in Technology (WLiT) board, and volunteers time with her city’s sustainability commission.
Yulini is a Senior Information Security Analyst for The New York Times, where she’s worked for the past four and a half years. Yulini started her career in technology 10 years ago as a Cisco Networking student at Thomas A. Edison CTE High School. She then attended Monroe College, where she was the first graduate of their BS in Computer Networks and Cybersecurity program, and earned her MS in Information Security Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
In this episode, we discussed how to attract a diverse student population to your classroom, plus how diversity impacts the cybersecurity workforce.
You can also find new cybersecurity resources here: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Blog/2023/September/Be-Cyber-Smart-for-Cybersecurity-Awareness-Month.
Learn more about our IT Specialist cybersecurity certification here: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Certifications/ITSpecialist/Certification/Certify.
Learn more about the Cisco Certified Support Technician cybersecurity certification here: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Certifications/Cisco/Certified-Support-Technician/Overview.
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A truly diverse workforce is required to protect companies and countries from a growing variety of cyber threats. However, according to a report from (ISC)2, the current cybersecurity industry is predominantly male and white, with only 26% of cybersecurity professionals identifying as ethnic and racial minorities, and only 14% identifying as female.
In one of our latest CERTIFIED Academy: IT webinars, we sat down with two incredible cybersecurity professionals: Priya Senthilkumar and Yulini Persaud.
Priya is currently the Vice President of Technology at Pearson VUE. She is a thought leader who has always stepped outside her comfort zone and taken risks in her career. Her journey at Pearson started in 2008 as a Project Manager and she has grown over the last 13 years into a leadership path, where she has not only grown personally but also developed other women leaders on her team. She serves on Women Leading in Technology (WLiT) board, and volunteers time with her city’s sustainability commission.
Yulini is a Senior Information Security Analyst for The New York Times, where she’s worked for the past four and a half years. Yulini started her career in technology 10 years ago as a Cisco Networking student at Thomas A. Edison CTE High School. She then attended Monroe College, where she was the first graduate of their BS in Computer Networks and Cybersecurity program, and earned her MS in Information Security Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
In this episode, we discussed how to attract a diverse student population to your classroom, plus how diversity impacts the cybersecurity workforce.
You can also find new cybersecurity resources here: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Blog/2023/September/Be-Cyber-Smart-for-Cybersecurity-Awareness-Month.
Learn more about our IT Specialist cybersecurity certification here: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Certifications/ITSpecialist/Certification/Certify.
Learn more about the Cisco Certified Support Technician cybersecurity certification here: https://certiport.pearsonvue.com/Certifications/Cisco/Certified-Support-Technician/Overview.