'Women Have an Enormous Opportunity': A Q&A with the Atlanta Women in Cybersecurity Roundtable

Bess Hinson, Morris, Manning & Martin. Photo: John Disney/ALM

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In 2017, Atlanta attorney Bess Hinson founded the Atlanta Women in Cybersecurity Roundtable, an invitation-only initiative to provide community and resources to advance women in cybersecurity in Atlanta. Here, we speak with some of those women leaders about their biggest security and privacy challenges and why women are pursing legal and other roles in the cybersecurity and privacy field.

Joining the Q&A are Bess Hinson, Chair, Cybersecurity & Privacy Practice at Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP; Kathy Fithen managing principal consultant at Secureworks and former chief privacy officer at The Coca-Cola-Company; Eden D. Doniger, assistant general counsel and privacy officer at Cox Enterprises, Inc.; and Susan Lam, vice president, global client security at Equifax, Inc.