Empowering Women in Cyber: Launching a Women's Cyber Community with Aastha Sahni

Join our enlightening conversation with Aastha Sahni, the founder of Breaking Barriers Women in Cybersecurity (BBWIC). BBWIC is an organization tailored to foster and uplift women in the ever-evolving realm of cybersecurity. Through her experiences from attending initial cybersecurity meetups, integrating into women-centric communities, and perceiving the gaps between novice roles and pinnacle leadership positions, she was compelled to initiate a transformative community. She narrates her inspirational journey from being a student in New Delhi, India, to spearheading a significant women-led initiative in the cybersecurity domain in the U.S.

Key Highlights:

🔑 Beginning in New Delhi: How monthly meetups and communities, like OWASP, sparked a lifelong passion in the realm of cybersecurity during her master's program.

🚺 Women in Cybersecurity: Understanding the gap between introductory courses and high-level leadership roles. Unearthing the 'in-between' that's often overlooked in the community.

📈 The BBWIC Vision: Addressing the challenges women face in a broad IT and cybersecurity field, guiding them on how to transition between areas, climb the corporate ladder, and even switch from entry-level roles to leadership ones.

🌍 Cross-Cultural Struggles: Delving into the unique challenges faced by women transitioning from developing countries to a career in developed nations, and the surprising similarities in hurdles no matter the geographical location.

🚀 Surpassing Expectations: BBWIC's explosive growth, from an expected group of 20 to an ever-expanding community now numbering in the hundreds.

Listen to this insightful journey, where passion meets purpose, and be inspired to break barriers in your own field!

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About Aastha Sahni:
Aastha is a competent CyberSecurity professional with 6+ years of experience in the industry. Her areas of expertise are Identity & Access Management (IAM), Application Security & Security Information Security Management (SIEM). Since the start of her career, she has donned many hats - from being a Consultant to Engineer and now an Instructor. She is a strong advocate of bringing Diversity & Inclusion to workplaces.To promote women professionals in the industry, she aims to help in provisioning a continuous Cybersecurity learning experience to women throughout their careers. She is the founder of CyberPreserve & BBWIC Foundation.

She started her Cyber journey in 2015 while pursuing her Masters in Information Security Management where she had her first exposure to the vast world of cyber. Thereafter, she joined OWASP Delhi as a volunteer in the same year to explore the community side of the industry. Since graduating, she has worked for companies like NeGD (National e-Governance Division) India, TCS, Nagarro, Identropy (now Protiviti), Flatiron School and currently working as Technical Trainer at Microsoft.

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