Head of Engineering at Boll Engineering AG to keynote at Women in…

Cybersecurity is a huge, multidisciplinary field. Therefore, it makes sense that people who work in this industry are just as multifaceted. Women absolutely belong on the playing field.

DENVER (PRWEB) March 08, 2023

Sylvia Schlaphof, head of Engineering and member of the executive board at Boll Engineering AG will deliver a keynote at the WiCyS conference, March 16 to 18 in Denver, Colorado.

30 years ago, Schlaphof witnessed a cyber-attack on one of the workstations she managed as she used to work as a system administrator. This triggered her to switch to cybersecurity. In 2003, she joined the IT distributor Boll Engineering AG as a security systems engineer. Seven years later, she assumed responsibility as Head of Engineering. 2020 she joined the Executive Board of the company, which to this day has 66 employees and nearly half of whom are women.

During her 20 years at Boll Engineering AG, she has always made it a point to share her knowledge by training other cybersecurity professionals at the company’s training center. Schlaphof is the first woman to achieve Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 8 (NSE8) certification and was named Fortinet Trainer of the Year for EMEA in 2022.

Born and raised in Germany, Schlaphof lives and works in Switzerland, where she skydives in her free time. She has participated in international competitions in four-way formation skydiving as a member of the German female national team for three years and is an instructor and coach.

Her keynote will cover the reality for women in cybersecurity. She will explore why there are still few women in the field and how to change that to help more women progress in their careers.

“Cybersecurity is a huge, multidisciplinary field. Therefore, it makes sense that people who work in this industry are just as multifaceted. Women absolutely belong on the playing field,” Schlaphof said.

The WiCyS conference will bring together over 2,000 students, professionals, educators, government, industry, military, and research organizations to encourage, educate, recruit, and help advance women in cybersecurity careers.

Journalists are invited to attend and should email info@wicys.org to request a media pass. For more information on WiCyS or the conference, visit http://www.wicys.org.

About WiCyS

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is a nonprofit organization with international reach dedicated to the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in cybersecurity. WiCyS was founded by Dr. Ambareen Siraj in 2013 through a National Science Foundation grant awarded to Tennessee Tech University. In less than 10 years, it has grown into an organization (est. in 2017) representing a leading alliance between trailblazers from academia, government, and industry. WiCyS offers opportunities, trainings, events and resources for its members. Strategic partners include Tier 1: Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Battelle, Bloomberg, Carnegie Mellon University – Software Engineering Institute, Cisco, Fortinet, Google, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Meta, Microsoft, Optum, Sandia National Laboratories, SentinelOne. Tier 2: AbbVie, Aristocrat, Dell Technologies, JPMorgan Chase & Co., LinkedIn, McKesson, Nike, NCC Group, Workday, Navy Federal Credit Union, Yubico Inc., DeVry University. To partner, visit http://www.wicys.org/support/strategic-partnerships/.

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