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At PKWARE, we’ve always been about progress, and that includes building an organization that celebrates and encourages women in technology and leadership roles. In honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, join Kathy Myhand, VP of People, and Jothi Agnitha, Engineering, along with guest host Dawn Jonckowski, Director of Corporate Communications, as they discuss the women who’ve blazed the trails for them and how to encourage the upcoming generations on their tech and leadership career journeys.

The dark web is home to the fraud economy and multiple criminal communities, rife with stolen data. It’s a complex and twisted environment that the average internet user should avoid, but what happens when they learn their data is available for sale there? Founder and CEO of Q6 Cyber Eli Dominitz joins host Spencer Kupferman to discuss his career evolution into dark web threat intelligence, how to unravel and identify threat sources, and why businesses should always have an expert monitoring the dark web on their behalf.

Protecting your data sometimes requires thinking like a threat actor. Enter ethical hackers, authorized security experts that try to break into your systems on purpose so you know where to improve security measures. Hacker and CypherCon founder Michael Goetzman joins Spencer Kupferman to share his tech journey into ethical hacking and how the annual CypherCon hacking event has impacted the cybersecurity world for the better.

User interface and experience design is one of the most critical aspects of successful software. Done well, UX/UI actually goes largely unnoticed, and users will intuitively perform the right actions. With complex solutions like cybersecurity, user interface and experience become even more central to ensuring the right steps are performed to discover and protect data. UX/UI experts Mike Kornacki and Mike Rhode join host Spencer Kupferman to unpack more about UX/UI design, the science behind it, and how it can contribute to an organization’s cybersecurity.

Over the past several decades, Israel has become a powerhouse in cybersecurity, supplying a large percentage of the world’s cyber technology. Israel has also focused on assisting smaller nations in creating cybersecurity startups. Josh Cohen, Director of Cyber Security at the Economic and Trade Office at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C., joins host Spencer Kupferman to discuss more about Israel’s ongoing investment in cybersecurity both for its own nation and the world.

In many organizations, the CFO’s responsibility in overseeing company funds puts them in control of signing off on risks, including how data is handled. CFOs end up playing a specific role in helping their organization prepare for the inevitable risk of a cyber-attack. PKWARE CFO Matt Zomboracz joins host Spencer Kupferman to discuss his experience in protecting sensitive data during his career in finance, as well as what CFOs need to know about data breaches.

The ZIP file revolutionized the way information could be shared between computers prior to the internet, and it was invented by none other than PKWARE founder Phil Katz. Our unique role as a trusted data compression provider has enabled PKWARE to evolve over the last four decades to now include encryption and other forms of data security. Senior Director of Software Development Engineering and PKWARE historian Jack Dale joins Spencer Kupferman to talk about the journey from ZIP to data protection.

There are more than one million people employed in cybersecurity in the US, yet only a quarter of that workforce are women. The statistics are similar for women in leadership roles: They hold only 23 percent of executive roles, and in the tech industry, that drops to a shocking 19 percent. Technology expert Milena Gacheva and PKWARE President and CRO Tonya Cannady join Spencer Kupferman to talk about their journeys in tech and leadership and how others can use their experience to carve a path to the top.