How women innovators are shaping the cybersecurity landscape

The document profiles three cybersecurity leaders—Selena Larson (Proofpoint), Elisa Costante (Forescout), and Ashley Jess (Intel 471)—highlighting their work in refocusing attention from nation-state APTs to pervasive cybercrime, advancing large-scale OT/IoT/IoMT visibility and vulnerability research (e.g., Project Memoria), and building CTI education and reporting programs (CTI 101, intelligence desks). It emphasizes their influence through initiatives like collaboration with CISA’s JCDC, tracking attacks and devices, and producing insights on AI misuse and election security, while stressing perseverance, diversity of thought, and practical, scalable methodologies to address evolving threats.