24: Solving the opportunity divide, with Dr Christine Izuakor

After a bit of a break, Security Stories is back! And we're back with a brand new lineup. Joining Hazel and Ben in the virtual pod booth is Sana Yousuf, a Cisco security marketing leader and storyteller, responsible for a diverse set of threat-focused products and solutions that bring our security platform to life. She is a diversity and inclusion evangelist and author of research reports. In this episode, we'll get to know Sana, as well as kick off a brand new opening feature. For each episode we’re going choose a topic that’s on our mind, and lead a discussion on it. There are no rules! This week it's Hazel's turn, and she leads a discussion on influential women in cybersecurity history, whose work may have gone under the radar. For more on this topic, check out this Time Magazine article: time.com/4974299/hacker-history-code-girls/Also check out our brand new ebook, "Lifting each other up: A celebration of women in cybersecurity and their advocates" cisco.com/go/boostincybersecurity Our guest this week is Dr Christine Izuakor (@Stineology). Christine is the founder of Cyber Pop up which helps small businesses with their cybersecurity needs and strategies. She’s had a really varied career, going from the corporate world to start up land, becoming an author, CEO and hacker along the way, and she is someone very motivated by injustice.  In this interview we hear about her life, why some people told her not to pursue a career in cybersecurity, and we chat about the opportunity divide and how we can make the field more accessible to more people.Plus, we reveal the latest threat trends in DNS Security to help inform you on where to dedicate resources or training. For more of those great looking charts Ben talks about, head to https://blogs.cisco.com/security/threat-trends-dns-security-part-1Episode time stamps:02:40 Getting to know Sana07:50 Influential women in cybersecurity history19:12 Interview with Dr Christine Izuakor part 146:05 Threat trends: What DNS Security told us about the past year59:38 Interview with Dr Christine Izuakor part 276:18 Outro