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Ellen Sundra: Actions speak louder than words. [Engineering] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Vice President of Global Systems Engineering Ellen Sundra shares her career path from life as a college grad who found her niche by creating a training program to a leader in cybersecurity. She realized that training and educating people was her passion. Ellen sees her value in providing soft skills as a natural balance to her technical team at Forescout Technologies. Being a woman in a male-dominated world proved to be a challenge and gaining her confidence to share her unique point of view helped her excel in it. Ellen recommends keeping your eyes open for how your skill set fits into cybersecurity. Find your perspective and really embrace it! We thank Ellen for sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello.

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Hello.

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Hello. Hello, I'm Ellen Sandra. I'm the Vice that asked for the mechanical robot and then promptly took it apart to see how it worked.

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