October Tech Talk
“The Unique and Personal Journeys of Two Community College Cyber Security Alum”
Zoom Link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/my/bayict
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month! We are marking it by featuring two Community College Alum who have advanced into impressive roles in the industry; Christina Hanson (Merritt) and Soledad Antelada Toledano (CCSF) for our October Tech Talk. Discover the contrasting journeys of their career development experience and learn what worked for them (and what might work for you) in the pursuit of a successful career in Cyber Security.
Our Panelists
Olivia Herriford, DM, MBA, formerly Regional Director ICT Digital Media for the Bay Area Community College Consortium, continues to support the Bay Region as the convener of the BayICT Partnership and Program Lead for the Regional Virtual Production Academy project. Her new roles with BayICT partners, Cyversity and NextGen Cyber Talent, now allow her to maintain a focus on creating a more diverse cybersecurity workforce.
Christina Hanson
Soledad Antelada Toledano is the Security Technical Program Manager at Google. She previously worked for Berkeley Lab, one of the most prestigious scientific centers in the world and one of the first nodes of ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet. Soledad was the first woman in the history of the Cybersecurity department at Berkeley Lab. After specializing in ‘penetration testing’ for several years, Soledad also develops research and advancement tasks for intrusion detection systems, monitoring of high capacity networks and vision and research exercises on how cybersecurity will evolve in the next 10 years adopting techniques of Artificial Intelligence for intrusion detection and handling of BigData generated by monitoring tools. Check out Soledad’s LinkedIn Profile