Women in Cybersecurity

We intend to host events such as:

1. Invite professional speakers from the industry,
2. Do cross-collaborations with other chapters,
3. Online coffee chats with professionals who cannot visit your school in person, WiCyS Speaker Resource (details below), Twitter, and Linkedin are your best friends to connect with professionals.
4. Talk with fellow women-eccentric CSEC organizations (not limited to) and raise awareness about your chapter, such as Women Society of Cyberjustsu, BBWIC Foundation, WISP, EmPoWE-R, etc.
5. Invite professors from your school to come to talk to students. These professors can talk about classes and expectations, undergoing research projects, upcoming research projects, and tips to survive undergrad/grad school.
6. University Connect Sessions, where potential recruiters come and talk about the open roles at their companies. The best time to hold these sessions is during the Fall semester as everyone is searching for the next Summer interns.
7. Organize Social Events for your chapter student members. These help them relax and bond. Before finals, assemble and distribute care packages (if you have the funds). Plan painting events (WiCyS provides lovely designs that you can print and color), stress buster activities, movie nights, etc.
8. Special Events — WiCyS Scholarship Guide session where past WiCyS scholars can talk about steps for drafting the scholarship application. Classes 101, where sophomores, juniors, and seniors can advise their younger folks about courses.
9. Tech Talks — Organize events where individuals/groups cover CSEC topics (eg. Reconnaissance, Scanning, Access Control). It could be an introductory event like Intro to Malware to diving deep like Dissecting a Malware using Dynamic Analysis.

Here are some links to WiCyS nationwide:

https://www.wicys.org/running-a-wicys-chapter-tips-tricks-secrets-and-perks/

https://www.wicys.org/initiatives/student-chapters/

Membership to national WiCyS here.

Women in Cybersecurity is the premier organization with national reach dedicated to bringing together women in cybersecurity for academia, research and industry to share knowledge, experiences, networking and mentoring.