Cybersecurity Career Success for Neurodivergent Individuals

Описание: Cybersecurity is a daunting field for many to get into. For people who are neurodivergent, this field can be even more challenging. The goal of this presentation is to highlight some of the challenges and pain points that neurodivergent people may experience when getting started in their career in
cybersecurity, breaking into the industry and open source after bootcamp graduation, starting or changing careers to InfoSec, and aims to provide implementable solutions to these challenges that are designed to make a positive impact.

Speaker Bio
Rin Oliver @kiran_oliver, Content Marketing Manager, Esper
Rin is a Platform Evangelist at Esper. They enjoy discussing all things open source, with a particular focus on diversity in tech, improving hiring pipelines in OSS for those that are neurodivergent, and removing accessibility barriers to learning programming. Rin is also a Member of Kubernetes, a contributor to Spinnaker, involved in the Kubernetes Contributor Experience SIG, and is a Storyteller on the Kubernetes Upstream Marketing Team. When not immersed in all things OSS and cloud-native, they can be found hanging out with their wife and pets, making candles, cooking, or gaming.

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