Author: Carmen Marsh

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Carmen Marsh is globally recognized technology leader, cybersecurity entrepreneur and educator. In 2019 she launched a very successful, the only tuition free fast track upskilling program called ‘100 Women in 100 Days Cybersecurity Career Accelerator’ with funding from Craig Newmark Philanthropy. The program has up to date graduated several hundred women who are now gainfully employed in the field. 100W100D is as of 2020 operating globally with 2 new cohorts being launched in Japan and Australia next year.

Carmen has also created an international spotlight for highlighting the female cybersecurity role models with the first ever Cybersecurity Woman of the Year Awards (CSWY)GALA in Las Vegas in 2019, at the Black Hat conference. Each year, women from across the world get recognized for their achievements in the field of cybersecurity.

In 2021, Carmen was awarded the “Cybersecurity Role Model of the Year 2021” by the Top Cyber News Magazine and was recognized as the Cyber Hero & Change Agent 2021 by SynED. She also received an international award as Direction Executive ou Entrepreneure: Europe 2021 by CEFCYS – Cercle des Femmes de la CyberSécurité. In 2022 she received an award as the honoree of “Women Who Mean Business” issued by the Business Journal.United Cybersecurity Alliance

 

 

From the Winter 2023 Issue

A Wrinkle in Metaverse

Author(s):

Carmen Marsh, President and CEO, United Cybersecurity Alliance

A Wrinkle in Metaverse

The metaverse is the latest and coolest technology designed to let us experience things in the virtual world, using Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (AR/VR) tools. However, it also presents us with a plethora of security challenges. Is this modern technology creating a “wrinkle” for bad actors to access our “Meta” world and exploit it? … Read more

From the Winter 2022 Issue

Cyber in Hybrid Threats – Acute and Present Danger to Our Society

Author(s):

Carmen Marsh, President and CEO, United Cybersecurity Alliance

Håkan Gunneriusson, Docent War Studies, Mid-Sweden University, Risk and Crisis Centre/Political Science

Josef Schroefl, Deputy Director, COI Strategy and Defence, Hybrid CoE

Madeleine Myatt, Doctoral Researcher/Research Fellow, University of Bielefeld, Germany

Cyber in Hybrid Threats

“The power of cyber in hybrid conflicts” was a hot topic at the recent European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats (Hybrid CoE) – “Cyber Power Symposium 2021” in Helsinki, Finland on November 10, 2021. This exclusive symposium brought together international experts to discuss critical subjects and share their insights about ways to counter … Read more

From the Spring 2021 Issue

Addressing Skills and the Gender Gap in Cybersecurity

Author(s):

Carmen Marsh, President and CEO, United Cybersecurity Alliance

Addressing the Skills & Gender Gap in Cybersecurity

There are not enough women being properly trained to meet the demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals; therefore, not enough women filling open positions in the cybersecurity field. Even though there has been an uptick in the number of women in cybersecurity, we are still far from having the gender balance needed. Mindset diversity is extremely … Read more