Topic: From Risk to Resilience: Women Shaping Modern Cybersecurity Operations
Abstract: Modern cybersecurity operations are evolving from reactive defense models to proactive, risk-driven resilience strategies. With expanding attack surfaces, AI-enabled threats, and increasing regulatory pressure, organizations must integrate risk intelligence, governance, and operational execution across the security lifecycle. The current webinar explores how women leaders are shaping the next generation of cybersecurity operations, driving transformation across Security Operations Centers (SOC), incident response, threat intelligence, and cyber risk management. Drawing from real-world experience, the session highlights how women practitioners are operationalizing risk into measurable security outcomes—moving beyond alert-centric security toward resilient, business-aligned defense models.
Key Takeaways:
- Translating cyber risk into operational priorities and resilience metrics
- The evolution of SOCs in an AI-driven threat landscape
- Integrating governance, automation, and human expertise in security operations
- Leadership perspectives on building inclusive, high-performing cyber teams
Speaker:
Heather Noggle, Owner, Codistac
Bio: Heather Noggle is the owner of Codistac, a consulting and technology-writing firm focused on the intersection of people, software, and cybersecurity. Her work centers on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), CMMC readiness, data-flow clarity, and turning messy technical realities into documentation that actually reflects how organizations operate.
She’s building a reputation for “data-aware compliance” work by interrogating systems, policies, and processes to surface gaps between what organizations say they do and what they actually do. Writing and speaking focus on effective policies, security requirements, frameworks, and translating technical complexity into usable language.
Heather holds the CSSLP and Security+ certifications and brings 30 years of experience spanning software development, requirements, HR, project management, cybersecurity, and professional writing. She’s known for structured thinking, pattern recognition, and an insistence on operational truth over compliance fiction.
Heather serves on the Advisory Board of the Missouri Cybersecurity Center of Excellence and as the Vice Chair of the Springfield Tech Council. She speaks regularly on cybersecurity, communication, and compliance.
With over 17 years of experience in application security, cloud security, and DevSecOps, Vandana has been instrumental in advancing security practices worldwide. She is a long-standing board member of the OWASP Foundation, leading initiatives such as OWASP AppSec Days India.
