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Careers in cybersecurity run the gamut from highly technical to highly policy oriented. Careers include work from policy, compliance, risk, middle management, product management, developer ops, to the programming of software and hardware. Our efforts have focused on incubating students who live at the intersection of policy and technology: policy people who understand the development…

There are many scholarships in the cybersecurity field. Here are some starting points: The Computing Research Association provides Scholarships for Women Studying Information Security (ISC)2 Women’s Scholarship  (ISC)2 Undergraduate Scholarship (ISC)2 Graduate Scholarship ESET Women in Cyber Technology Scholarship Department of Defense SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program For I School students, the Curtis Smith Scholarship

Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics has done excellent work in explaining ethical frameworks and applying those frameworks to cybersecurity. We suggest that you start with a grounding in ethics itself. The Markkula Center’s Framework for Ethical Decision Making explains what ethics is, what it is not, and provides several methods one could…

Because security touches so many disciplines, you’ll find student and faculty groups in a range of departments active on cybersecurity. The best place to start is the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC). Established in 2015, CLTC is a research and collaboration hub in the School of Information. CLTC funds research, hosts speakers and conferences, and…

“CISO” stands for “Chief Information Security Officer,” the executive in charge of protecting an organization’s information assets: in other words, the head cybersecurity person. CISOs often are also responsible for customer privacy, compliance with data protection regulations, and other related issues. The position has grown and evolved rapidly in the last 15 years or so;…