In our inaugural list, we honor those who are upending the status quo.

Donna Dodson has multiple roles at the National Institute of Standards and Technology — the U.S. government's premier measurement and testing laboratory.

Masha Sedova co-founded Elevate Security, where she tests user behavior and puts them on campaigns to practice new security behavior.

Over a three-decade career in security, Mischel Kwon held a succession of increasingly highly-ranked technical leadership positions before founding MKACyber, a security consulting firm that assesses and…

Kimber Dowsett is a security architect for 18F, a specialized technology division within the General Services Administration, or GSA, that’s been called the U.S. government’s startup.

As Chief Strategy Officer for RSA, Niloofar Howe responsible for the health and direction of the business, as well as figuring out a way large incumbent companies…

Amanda Rousseau's job puts her knee deep in the guts of malware. A research engineer at Endgame, Rousseau's history includes two years at the Department of Defense…

Amelie Koran, ‎U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General Societal biases are not always apparent to those who aren’t exposed to them on…

Suzanne Vautrinot retired from the U.S. Air Force in Oct. 2013 as a major-general and commander of the 24th Air Force, where she'd been in charge of…

Jessy Irwin, VP of Privacy and Security, Mercury LLC If you’ve ever been to an information security conference, you’ve probably seen a t-shirt that said, “there’s no…