Empowering African Women through Cybersecurity | Guest Confidence Staveley
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Confidence Staveley of the CyberSafe Foundation and the CyberGirls program is today's guest. CyberGirls is a year-long cohort program in which women in Africa ages 18 to 28 can learn cybersecurity basics and create career tracks to fast-track these students into cybersecurity careers! Staveley tells us about the workings of the program, how she uses her YouTube channel to teach API security with food analogies and explains the origins of what is likely the first-ever Afrobeat song about security awareness!  This episode is as fun and inspiring as any I’ve recorded, so I hope you’ll tune in for today’s Cyber Work. 0:00 - Cybersecurity training for women in Africa 4:47 - How Confidence Staveley got into cybersecurity 10:35 - What is the CyberSafe Foundation? 16:57 - What is the CyberGirls fellowship? 21:30 - How to get involved in CyberGirls 30:10 - Inspiring success CyberGirls stories 43:11 - Keeping CyberGirls engaged 46:31 - API Kitchen YouTube show 52:00 - Cybersecurity initiatives in Africa 59:27 - Advice for working in cybersecurity 1:03:13 - CyberGirls' future 1:05:20 - Learn more about CyberSafe 1:07:22 - Outro – Get your FREE cybersecurity training resources: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/free – View Cyber Work Podcast transcripts and additional episodes: https://www.infosecinstitute.com/podcast About Infosec Infosec’s mission is to put people at the center of cybersecurity. We help IT and security professionals advance their careers with skills development and certifications while empowering all employees with security awareness and phishing training to stay cyber-safe at work and home. More than 70% of the Fortune 500 have relied on Infosec Skills to develop their security talent, and more than 5 million learners worldwide are more cyber-resilient from Infosec IQ’s security awareness training. Learn more at infosecinstitute.com.
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