Initiative for Women in Cybersecurity: Interview with Anne Kohnke, PhD
Excelsior Life
English - February 18, 2015 20:05 - 32 minutes - 36.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCourses Education academics college distance education excelsior graduate higher learning student Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The goal of the National Cybersecurity Initiative for Women in Cybersecurity is to offer support and solutions to women in cybersecurity by offering skills training and identifying best practices for utilization by women in the cyber security field to help understand and influence perceptions.
Women in Cybersecurity Leadership will cover best practices utilized by women in the cybersecurity field in various areas of critical infrastructure.
Each podcast will feature a noted woman leader in the cyber security arena who will share with Who she is! What she does! and How she gets it done!
Interviewee:
Anne Kohnke, PhD is an Assistant Professor of IT at Lawrence Technological University and teaches courses in both the Information Technology and Organization Development/Change Management disciplines at the bachelor through doctorate levels. Anne started as an Adjunct Professor in 2002 and joined the faculty full-time in 2011. Prior to joining LTU, Anne worked in Industry for 25 years where she focused in information technology and management. Her IT career started in the mid-1980's on a help desk, and over the years Anne developed technical proficiency as a database administrator, network administrator, and technical business analyst. After a decade, Anne was promoted to management and worked as a project manager, IT Director, and Vice President of IT and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Dr. Kohnke's technical experience and organization development background aided her in building collaborative, high performance teams to work on complex medium to large-scale technical projects. Anne has managed multi-million dollar IT budgets in fast paced entrepreneurial environments.
As a former CISO, Anne has extensive hands-on experience in risk management, IT security controls, IT governance, and IT audits to include NIST and PCI certifications. Dr. Kohnke earned her PhD from Benedictine University and an MBA from Lawrence Technological University.