Women in cybersecurity make a difference every day through their different abilities, talent, commitment, innovation, dedication, and perseverance.
We are very pleased, along with all CEFCYSians, to launch this award to recognize, honor and celebrate the achievements of these deserving women in one of the most challenging and demanding fields of information technology, which is cybersecurity.
Your contribution is invaluable to the CEFCYS, and on behalf of all our members, we thank you for your participation in this second edition of the Cyber Women’s Award.
Nacira GUERROUDJI-SALVAN • founding president of the CEFCYS
They are our sponsors
“As it’s in its DNA, Accenture has always promoted the establishment of an inclusive environment where diversity is a source of innovation and where our employees are encouraged to shed stereotypes and prejudices. It is therefore with great enthusiasm that Accenture Security France is committed to CEFCYS in favor of the visibility of all types of actors and actresses in Cybersecurity, the driving force of digital change, in particular on the occasion of Cyber Women Day.
I will be proud and delighted to be present on October 20th to support the event and participate in the round table ‘How to educate the forgotten digital people?’”
Luc Tentillier
France Sales Security Lead.
“At AWS, we are changing the face – and the future – of our industry for the better.
Women thrive at AWS through our inclusive culture, leadership opportunities, and strong support initiatives.
Today, and through our sponsorship of CEFCYS and European Cyberwomenday, we are committed to solidarity. To support each other. And to celebrate our progress and our innovations.”
Hanane Lboukili
Security and Compliance Strategist.
“Cybersecurity awareness: making as many people as possible understand and adhere to the essentials”.
Everything we design, sell and implement meets this objective.
In this maxim in three parts we find:
The essential: these are the themes that seem essential to us and on which we must make people understand the nature of the issues and the best practices to have. To date, we are dealing with two major subjects: cybersecurity and CSR;
The greatest number: our materials have the widest possible reach and are designed to be able to reach and be understood by the widest population;
Make people understand and adhere: we develop materials and tools for the most engaging communication possible. We are constantly improving them based on feedback and research in the field.
We offer to our clients the tools to raise awareness and change the behavior of their employees in these essential areas.
Michel Gérard
CEO.
Cybereason provides future-ready attack protection to unify security from the endpoint, to the enterprise, to everywhere. The Cybereason Defense Platform combines the industry’s top-rated detection and response (EDR and XDR), next-gen anti-virus (NGAV), and proactive threat hunting to deliver context-rich analysis of every element of a malicious operation (MalopTM). The result is an operation-centric approach that eliminates alert fatigue and ends cyber attacks from endpoints to everywhere.
Catherine Agba
Regional Marketing Director France.
“The reason being of the Women in Cyber (WiC) initiative within Deloitte is to promote diversity and gender equality in the cybersecurity industry by engaging dialogue, raising awareness and developing a community that encourages women to pursue careers in cybersecurity. Our daily commitment takes the form of internal and external initiatives supported and reinforced by our network of partners, in particular CEFCYS. The Cyber Woman Trophy will be an opportunity for our company to promote, support and celebrate the paths of women in Cyber in France.”
Imade Elbaraka
Cyber managing Partner.
“In its 15 years of existence, the FIC – International Cybersecurity Forum – has become the largest cybersecurity and digital trust event in Europe, with 19,000 participants, 550 private and public sponsors, 520 speakers and 60 countries represented in 2022. This FIC “Europe”, whose next edition will be held from April 5 to 7, 2023, is now accompanied by a North American edition. The first edition of this FIC “North America”, thanks to the support of the Quebec, Canadian and French authorities, will be held in Montreal, Canada, on November 1 and 2, 2022.”
Vincent Riou
Executive Director, international events.
“For the past 15 years, ITrust, a French pure player in cybersecurity, has been protecting its customers’ strategic activities with its own solutions and technologies.
Thousand or so companies secured by the French publisher can focus on developing their business while knowing they can count on its cybersecurity experts. ITrust’s solutions meet all the needs of businesses and public organizations. ITrust’s solutions cover all operational needs and requirements: IKare vulnerability scanners, cybersecurity audits and expertise, managed SOC SIEM XDR Reveelium, managed EDR.”
David Ofer
ITrust Vice President.
“We are convinced within the Orange group and our subsidiary Orange Cyberdefense, that the equal presence of women and men in all cybersecurity professions is essential to face the cyber challenges of tomorrow. Women are still not visible enough, despite their skills and even though the lack of resources is proven. Supporting the Cyber Woman Trophy by highlighting the cyber journeys of extraordinary women is one of our actions to create vocations and make women want to be part of the exciting world of cybersecurity.”
Hugues Foulon
CEO Orange Cyberdefense.
“In the pursuit of our objectives of parity in cybersecurity and in the continuity of our initiatives carried out with our internal collective Women In Cyber, our commitment to CECFYS sounds obvious. For several years, Sopra Steria has been launching initiatives in favor of diversity in cybersecurity, such as sharing inspiring testimonials from expert men and women, webinars, events, etc. By supporting the EuropeanCyberWomenDay 2022, we are proud to accelerate this dynamic. and to promote the expertise of women to create new vocations, on a European scale!”
Fabien Lecoq
Director of the Cybersecurity BU.
“As a concerned and committed actor for inclusion and parity in society, TheGreenBow is very supportive of the work CEFCYS is doing to value and professionalize the presence of women in the world of cybersecurity, women who currently only represent 10% of the workforce in this sector. During the European Cyber Security Month GreenBow is supporting CEFCYS by sponsoring the Cyber Woman Trophy to further popularise and encourage cyber women.”
Mathieu Isaïa
Managing Director TheGreenBow.
“A software company providing cybersecurity solutions, WALLIX is the European specialist in digital Identity and Access Security Solutions. WALLIX PAM4ALL, the unified privilege management solution, enables companies to respond to today’s data protection challenges. It guarantees detection of and resilience to cyberattacks, which enables business continuity. The solution also ensures compliance with regulatory requirements regarding access to IT infrastructures and critical data. WALLIX PAM4ALL is distributed through a network of more than 300 resellers and integrators worldwide. Listed on the Euronext (ALLIX), WALLIX supports more than 2000 organizations in securing their digital transformation. WALLIX is a founding member of the HEXATRUST group and has been included in the Futur40, the first ranking of growth companies on the stock exchange published by Forbes France and is part of the Tech 40 index.”
Wadiha El Batti
Director of product Management.
June
6th, 2022
Applicant’s candidature
from June 6th
to September 30th.
September
30th, 2022
Confirmation
of applications.
October
10th, 2022
Jury
deliberation.
October
20th, 2022
Prizes winners
during the #Cyberwomenday.
They sponsor us
Thanks to the sponsors and partners of CEFCYS for their generosity and their support for our event.
They relay us
CEFCYS works in close collaboration with network & press partners, who help to relay the event
