The IT Security Guru’s Most Inspiring Women in Cyber Awards aims to shed a light on the remarkable women in our industry. The following is a feature on just one of the many phenomenal women put forward for the 2021 awards. Presented in a Q&A format, the nominee’s answers are written in their own words with minor edits made by the editor for readability.
This year, the awards are sponsored by KPMG and Beazley.
Aileen Ryan, Senior Director Portfolio Strategy at Siemens EDA
What does your job role entail?
I lead a team driving innovation in the semiconductor industry, leading the emergence of ground-breaking in-silicon solutions which can monitor system-level behaviour and detect security breaches at top speed.
How did you get into the cybersecurity industry?
One unique competitive advantage of our product is speed of detection of anomalous behaviour. This means it offers immense benefits for cybersecurity applications in automotive and other transportation systems where there is “no safety without security”. These markets face very significant challenges, design cycles and time to market is long, increasing levels of connectivity and autonomy. Therefore, radically increasing the threat landscape and number of vulnerabilities which could be exploited. Moreover, time *in* market for vehicles is long, thus making it impossible to predict now what the threat landscape will look like towards the end of the product’s lifetime.
I am passionate about helping solve the challenge of securing our transportation environment to enable society to see the benefits of a connected, autonomous vehicle future.
