MacKenzie Brown

Through difficult times, some adversaries will find opportunities and COVID-19 has proven to be a ripe opportunity for them to target a new, expanding, remote workforce. While these threats morph and evolve, Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART) finds ways to endure and help organizations become more resilient

The moral of this short blog: we are as memorable to others when our passion leaves impressions that inherently support our merit, without having to “know somebody.”

Hopefully, the first cyber-attack that MacKenzie Brown helps you survive will be a fake one. Otherwise you’ll end up calling her and her colleagues at Optiv Security when you’ve already been compromised by a hack. As an incident response consultant, Brown helps clients prepare for, or recover from, intrusions from hackers. And as the founder of the non-profit Ms. GreyHat, Brown provides training and networking for girls and women studying and practicing cybersecurity. We talked to her about her… Show more

Hopefully, the first cyber-attack that MacKenzie Brown helps you survive will be a fake one. Otherwise you’ll end up calling her and her colleagues at Optiv Security when you’ve already been compromised by a hack. As an incident response consultant, Brown helps clients prepare for, or recover from, intrusions from hackers. And as the founder of the non-profit Ms. GreyHat, Brown provides training and networking for girls and women studying and practicing cybersecurity. We talked to her about her infosec work and her best security advice. Show less

Search the phrase “women in cybersecurity,” and your eyes will glaze over staring at the never-ending list of articles, statistics and sincere anecdotes. We live in a day and age where young girls are lifted on shoulders and told in an empowering manner that they too can affect the future of technology.

Peddle changed the way society computes today. In 1975, encased in plastic, this 40-pin DIP 8-bit microprocessor, known as the MOS Technology 6502, made its debut. Why should you care? Not only was this the cheapest microprocessor on the shelf, but I believe, without this OG beauty queen of tech, our technology landscape and cultural impact would be an exponentially different landscape.

The problem of a lack of technically developed and specifically qualified women in Cybersecurity is not unique to this industry alone; however the proliferation of women in tangential roles associated with our industry shows that there is a barrier to entry, whatever that barrier may be.

Quantifying the financial impact of a data breach before it occurs is like assuming you can win roulette using insider trading.