Join us in conversation with Wendy Goucher FBCS to learn about Cyber and Social Engineering: From Nettie to Winnie the Pooh.
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Synopsis
Join us in conversation with Wendy. Wendy is a Cyber Security Consultant at Arcanum Cyber, where she gets to work with some seriously brilliant people, which is great because she loves working in a team.
She specialises in risk and assurance which, after some bumpy journeys along her career path, she found to be an ideal area of cyber security for her because it uses her business focused brain to its best.
She also specialises in cyber communications which resulted in her authoring some textbooks, including one for the BCS. Wendy is neuro diverse in that she has dyspraxia and ADHD which brings challenges, but also the sort of creative brain that enabled her to create stories for 4-7 year olds the (Nettie in Cyberland series) and also for 8-11 year olds (Eesha and the Mud Monster Mystery) which help young children to talk about cyber safety and gently learn to act more safely online.
The skills she uses for that also helps her to write policies – although they generally have fewer pictures. She also writes cyber safety short stories for senior folk (The Canon Doyle Series) and is slowly recording these as audio stories because even people whose eyesight is failing can be empowered to be safer online.
About the speakers
Guest: Wendy Goucher FBCS - Cyber Security Consultant at Arcanum Cyber Wendy is proud to be a Fellow of the BCS and a member the committees of BCS Women, and the special interest groups for Information Security and Neurodiversity.
She recently became a member of both the BCS Council and the BCS Community Board, which means that she now has to roll up her sleeves and work for people outside as well as inside work.
Interviewer: Jo Stansfield FHCA, MBCS - Founder and Director of Inclusioneering Limited, BCS Women Co-Chair and BCS Trustee Jo is an independent Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consultant, supporting technology and engineering organisations. She has held leadership roles in industry, including as Director for People Data and Insights at a leading FTSE 100 technology firm. Alongside this, Jo holds a number of voluntary positions.
She is a Trustee and member of Council for BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, co-chair of BCS Women, Fellow of AI ethics and audit charity, ForHumanity, and serves on the Industry Advisory Board for Techup Skills Bootcamp. Jo began her career as an engineer, developing enterprise software for global industry, spanning oil & gas, automotive, aerospace and marine sectors.
Having pivoted her focus from the technical to human dimensions of engineering, Jo now works as a Business Psychologist. She holds an MSc in Organisational and Business Psychology, with thesis research topic “Lessons for Gender and Racial Diversity within Technology”. She brings deep understanding of the engineering culture, and lived experience as a woman within it, to her work in support of diversity and inclusion in tech and engineering domains.
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