Of all the cybersecurity events that had to take place virtually this year, last month’s annual conference of the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (known in the industry as ISC²) stood out for Canadians.
At that event, well-known cybersecurity leader Bonnie Butlin was given the annual Fellow of ISC² Award for her decades of work.
Bonnie Butlin.
In an interview from her Ottawa base, Butlin admitted the award, announced earlier, caught her off guard.
“It came as a real surprise. I didn’t know I had been nominated, and let alone from Sai Honig, [co-founder of the New Zealand Network for Women in Security] who’s around the world. So that was a bit of a double surprise … and for me to receive the award when I’m not actually a member myself is just a huge honour when I wasn’t even expecting at all.”