Creating Connections: Refocusing our spotlight.
I feel like of my musings here are about things I'm doing at N2K, in the greater community, or something I am feeling particularly strongly about. I want to turn the spotlight on you, (dare I say) gentle readers! Let's hear about what is important to you! What are you working on? Is something tugging at your heartstrings that pertains to our women in STEM audience, which includes our supporters and allies? Tell me about it! I'd love to share your work and passions with this audience.
Creating Connections: Reaching for the stars.
Did you know that N2K is reaching for the stars? Our story started with an email. In 2012, one of our team started collecting intel and sharing a daily news email internally about happenings in the cybersecurity industry. Someone suggested that maybe the larger community would be interested in this information and the CyberWire Daily Briefing was born. We branched out into podcasting in 2016. Since then, we've added a number of news briefings and podcasts focused on segments of the cybersecurity industry like policy and law, research, social engineering, education, and workforce development. We separate the signal from the noise.
Creating Connections: Highlighting women.
How is it already the end of Women's History Month 2024? Here at N2K CyberWire, our team has done our best to highlight some amazing women in STEM on our shows this month. We've shared some fantastic encores of past Career Notes podcasts where our guests share their career journeys in their own words including barriers they've encountered and accomplishments they wish to highlight. You can check out Career Notes here. We're always looking for guests at all levels of their careers in the industry to share their origin stories. If you would like to join us, please send me an email. I'd love to hear from you! Just as we started off the month celebrating International Women's Day with our Thoughts on International Women's Day 2024 article, we are topping off this month with a Reflections on Women's History Month piece sharing quotes from women in the industry offering advice and inspiring inclusion in all that we do.
Creating Connections: Embracing change.
It's getting to be that time of year when I am ready for change. Winter into spring, flowers starting to push through, longer days. My favorite time of year. I love the celebrations that happen now as well. It's exciting that we are coming upon International Women's Day and Women's History Month. We are bringing some changes here to Creating Connections as well. We are expanding our focus a bit to be more inclusive. You may have noticed the title. We are moving from Women in Cybersecurity toward embracing more women with Women in STEM. To that end, I welcome your thoughts and ideas and I welcome a larger audience encompassing a wider circle of women that we can create connections with. Please join us as we become Women in STEM. Cheers to this metamorphosis and the change around us!
Creating Connections: Exciting beginnings.
Welcome to our first issue of Creating Connections for 2024. This is the 5th calendar year that we are publishing this newsletter. We started the newsletter during the pandemic in 2020 when we were all in lockdown as a way to stay connected knowing many of us were feeling isolated. So much has happened since that first issue. We've returned to a level of "normalcy" - some returning to our offices, attending conferences in person, and even meeting colleagues for networking events face to face. The changes that occured in the past five years allowed us new ways of connecting, and for that I find myself thankful. I'm taking that gratitude into 2024 where I feel like my remote working life (that I had before the pandemic) is normal, and thanks to the pandemic, I am able to connect on new levels virtually with colleagues, friends, and the world at large.
