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Seidea's SpotlightEp 20. Women in Leadership Series w/ Maria MacaloneyIn this episode of Seidea Spotlight, host Stephanie Itimi sits down with Maria Macaloney, Executive Director of Talent Acquisition at Teradata, to discuss the key elements of leadership, career transitions, and the power of mentorship.
Maria shares her journey from an ambitious young professional to an international leader, navigating diverse work environments across Europe, Asia, and beyond. She opens up about overcoming challenges, building resilience, and why believing in yourself is essential for success.
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The importance of mentorship and community in leadership.
How to navigate car...
2025-01-1627 min
Glowing in TechHow to get into Cyber Security? Certifications, Roles and Advice: Stephanie Itimi, CEO Seidea part 1In this episode of Glowing in Tech, Stephanie Itimi, founder of Seidea and cybersecurity expert, talks with Amber and Jessie about her background in cyber intelligence and her work helping minority women break into cybersecurity careers. She provides insights into the different aspects of cybersecurity, including protecting critical data and systems and physical and technical security. Additionally, she discusses her current research on cybersecurity and physical security for domestic workers in Nigeria and the importance of addressing unfair data collection and surveillance practices.The episode highlights the importance of involving everyone in a company...
2023-06-1336 minSeidea's SpotlightEp 19. Personal Resilience and Navigating into Cybersecurity w/ Faith TeberenIn the words of Nicola Owen, The deputy chief executive of Lancaster University:
“Students have been remarkably resilient. They’ve made the best of what has been a challenging period for them, and I think they have really appreciated efforts that have been made [by the university], seen that we’ve innovated as we’ve gone along, and participated in that innovation.”
In this podcast we are joined by Faith Teberen, discussiing her career journey, transition from economics to cybersecurity amd how she was able to remain resillent as a graduate during the COVID-19 era.
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Faith has a degree in...
2021-08-0217 min
The RE: ProjectWomen, Tech, and Global Good - Meet the founders of Women in International Affairs NetworkThe RE: Project has partnered with the WIAN | The Women in International Affairs Network for a special podcast interview with the founders of WIAN, Amandla Uzoka-Jarrett and Demiladé Falola-Apooyin.
Learn about the process and the purpose behind the creation of The Women in International Affairs Network, and listen in on some insights about their upcoming virtual conference event on July 3rd, 2021 (3pm-6.30pm BST) , 'Women, Tech and the Global Good', featuring inspirational and phenomenal speakers from IBM, Deloitte, United Nations Telecommunity Agency, and SEIDEA.
Check out their website: https://www.wianetwork.com/
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2021-06-2424 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.18 Energy Cybersecurity Policy w/ Sherifah LahanThe cyberthreats facing electric-power and gas companies include the typical threats that plague other industries: data theft, billing fraud, and ransomware. However, several characteristics of the energy sector heighten the risk and impact of cyberthreats against utilities. In this episode, we are joined with Sherifah Lahan, a Government Policy Adviser with a background in national security policy to discuss the regulatory perspective of this space.
About Speaker:
Sherifah Lahan is a Government Policy Adviser with a background in national security policy. She is currently a cyber security policy Adviser with a focus on ensuring the cy...
2021-05-0425 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.17 Operational Resilience w/ Pranathi PraveenA resilient enterprise is able to recover its key business services from a significant unplanned disruption, protecting its customers, shareholders and ultimately the integrity of the financial system. Avoiding disruption to a particular system that supports a business service contributes to operational resilience.
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Pranathi is an experienced technology risk and cyber consultant with demonstrated experience serving global financial services organizations. She works to support her clients navigate technology and operational risks, while helping clients create long-term value and achieve resilience. She is also heavily involved in the corporate sustainability and Diversity and Inclusion agend...
2021-01-1316 min
Women Decode STEM#19 Stephanie Itimi of SeideaStephanie Itimi is a digital entrepreneur, technology advisor, keynote speaker, and author. She’s the founder of Seidea, a social enterprise helping Black, Asian, minority ethnic women build cyber-security careers, and Seinfo, a digital library empowering African women and youth with the skills needed for remote work. In addition, she is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Information Security at Royal Holloway, London.In this episode, I talk to Stephanie about creating equitable opportunities for ethnic minority groups. And discuss her involvement with several global initiatives. Connect with Stephanie on socialInst...
2020-11-1739 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.16 Online Activism and Counter-Surveillance #EndSarsIn this episode we sit down with three Nigerian Cybersecurity Experts, Sophie, Eyitemi and Yomi to talk about the #EndSars Movement and also provide security tips on ways Online and Offline protestors in the movement can increase their privacy and counter surveillance.
What is the #EndSars Movement?
End SARS or #EndSARS is a decentralised social movement and series of mass protests against police brutality in Nigeria. The slogan calls for the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a notorious unit of the Nigerian Police with a long record of abuses. The protests which takes its name from the slogan...
2020-10-2758 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.15 How Private is your Period App? w/ Laura ShippAn investigation from privacy advocacy group Privacy International found that period-tracking apps downloaded by millions of users shared alarmingly sensitive data with Facebook and other third-parties, including users' drinking habits, medical symptoms, and when they last had sex. In this episode with expert Laura Shipp, we discuss the privacy issues with period apps, alternative solutions and way you can increase your privacy while using these apps.
2020-08-2441 min
Coding Black Females PodcastCybersecurity with Seidea: Security Malware Threats 101Looking for a new job or thinking about a career change? Then give cybersecurity a serious consideration. According to Cybersecurity Ventures, there will be up to 3.5 million job openings by 2021. And as remote working is becoming the norm, companies are looking to implement tighter security controls to protect these new operating models.
In this online webinar, you will learn more malware, a software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server, client, or computer network. You will learn the wide variety of types of malware that exist, such as Trojan horses, logic bombs, ransomware, spyware and...
2020-08-111h 12
The Root Of The Science PodcastEP 35: Stephanie Itimi- Founder of Seidea & PhD Researcher in Information SecuritySend us a text My guest is Stephanie Itimi; she's a 25year old originally from Nigeria but now based in London. She is a PhD Researcher in information security at Royal Halloway University, founder of Seidea. In this episode, we learn that Stephanie is also an artist; she expresses her self using photography combined with her love for digital security and her economics background. She helps us understand how she transitioned from an economics background into cybersecurity. Stephanie is the founder of Seidea, a social enterprise focused on Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic women groups which helps educate a...
2020-07-3046 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.14 Data Brokers: Who sells our Data & Why w/ Rob ShavellWhen it comes to data-privacy scandals, Facebook and Google immediately spring to mind as the key culprits. These companies are the scapegoats whose shady data-privacy practices get plastered all over the news and lead to investigations, but there are other companies that operate away from the spotlight, unbeknownst to most internet users. In this episode, we discuss data brokers, the industry, skills needed for the industry and ways you can reduce your digital footprint online.
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Rob, Abine CEO, co-founded Abine alongside Eugene and Andy and previously led Abine’s product and business development. Rob brought Abine’s core products...
2020-07-2240 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.13 Gender Based Violence and Online Harms w/ Seyi AkiwowoGlobally, women are 27 times more likely to be harassed online. The online world is an extension or, in some ways, a mirror of offline realities and therefore violations of human rights and threats to our democracy also happen online. Over a third (34%) of Black, Asian or minority ethnic people (BAME) witnessed or experienced racial abuse in the seven months following the Brexit vote in June 2016, a TUC poll has found (1). Online abuse not only violates an individual’s right to live free from violence and to participate online but also undermines democratic exercises and good governance and, as such, cr...
2020-06-2232 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.12 Technology-Assisted Domestic Abuse w/ Julia SlupskaTechnology can be very helpful to survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence, and stalking, but is also often misused by abusers to harass, threaten, coerce, monitor, exploit, and violate their victims. The resources below explore the extent and nature of technology-facilitated abuse. In this podcast we discuss with Julia Slupska to discuss how smart home devices can be a tool for domestic violence and ways we can improve the security around it.
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Julia Slupska is a doctoral student at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Cybersecurity and th...
2020-05-2537 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.11 GDPR Post Brexit w/ Harry BojeData protection is unlikely to be foremost in people’s minds when considering the impact of Brexit, whether it be soft or hard, deal or no deal. The UK Government has, however, recently issued papers about various topics in a ‘no deal’ situation and one of these entitled: Data protection if there’s no Brexit deal. In this podcast we speak with Harry Boje, a Data Privacy expert.
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Harry Boje is a Certified Data Protection Officer and GDPR certified data protection specialist, with an exemplary career spanning across th...
2020-04-2730 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.10 Understanding Email Scams w/ Aisha TummonEmail Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity through an email.
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Aisha is a lawyer and Director of Business Development at Orbital Witness, she previously worked at cyber security company Tessian. Aisha is also Co-Founder of WEDS (We Empowering Diversity in Start-ups). WEDS is a network founded by women in start-ups who believe that diversity and inclusion of all kinds are essential and drive happiness and success in the workplace.
2020-03-2330 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.9 Tackling Virtual Identify Theft w/ YotiOver the past few years, we have seen an unprecedented number of data breaches and a huge amount of personal information exposed. This has resulted in an increase in Identity Theft. According to Breach Level Index, identity theft accounted for 64% of data breaches between January and June 2016. We got to speak to Yoti about Identity theft, it's size, impact and ways in which we can secure our Digital Identity.
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Julie Dawson, Director of Regulatory & Policy, Yoti Julie leads regulatory and government relations, steers our ethics framework development lia...
2020-02-2432 minSeidea's SpotlightEp. 8 Demystifying Data Privacy w/ Sophina Kio-LawsonPersonal data is used to make very important decisions in our lives. Personal data can be used to affect our reputations; and it can be used to influence our decisions and shape our behavior. It can be used as a tool to exercise control over us. And in the wrong hands, personal data can be used to cause us great harm. We had a chat with Sophina Kio-Lawson, Founder of SheSecure.
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Sophina Kio-Lawson is an Information Security Professional with over three(3) years of experience in the tech/cybersecurity space, co-founder for SheSecures and currently an Information Security postgraduate Student...
2020-01-3152 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.7 Self-Hosting Wordpress Security w/ Yejide AdeoyeA hacked WordPress site can cause serious damage to your business revenue and reputation. Hackers can steal user information, passwords, install malicious software, and can even distribute malware to your users. In this episode we talk about the security risks involved with Self-Hosting WordPress Site websites and daily tips you can use to protect their websites.
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Yejide Adeoye is an indispensable WordPress Security Specialist. She is a thought provoker who specialises in supporting SMEs on thinking about the best ways to protect their business activities online. Having devel...
2019-11-1136 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.6 IoT Security w/ Cigdem SengulThe Internet of Things (IoT) is riddled with flaws. Many of these are systemic; a security flaw in one product will affect every device within that product line. Guided by Cigdem Sengul, Senior Researcher @ Nominet), this podcast provides the foundation of IoT Security.
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Cigdem Sengul a Senior Researcher in Nominet, mainly working on privacy and trust in Internet of Things. She has more than 10 years of experience in research and development in mobile and wireless networks in both academia and industry.
Between 2012-2015, she was a Senior Lecturer in Oxford Brookes University, where she lectured on wireless and mo...
2019-07-0125 min
The Technosocial InstituteDiversity in Technology and Cybersecurity with Stephanie ItimiStephanie Itimi is a cybersecurity analyst, social entrepreneur, author and founder of Seidea, a social enterprise that equips women from ethnic minority groups with skills for the digital economy, we spoke about the barriers faced by women in the technology sector, the importance of diversity in cybersecurity, online threats faced by women and individuals from minority ethic backgrounds and protecting ourselves on the internet.
2019-06-1946 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.5 WhatsApp Hack: How Can We Protect our Phones?In this podcast episode we are joined by Cybersecurity Expert Ibukun on Emmanuel-Adebayo to dicuss the WhatsApp Hack and how we can protect our phones.
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Ibukun Emmanuel-Adebayo is a mum of five, and a long-standing Fellow of the British Computer Society plus a Vice-President and Senior Cybersecurity Expert for a global investment bank.
As an experienced CIO/CISO and GRC leader, she has led and worked with many exceptional individuals within various sectors including as IT Chief at the Royal Albert Hall in the UK.
Often...
2019-06-0724 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.4 Cyber-Related Financial Crime w/ Ibukun Emmanuel-AdebayoIn this episode we discuss Cyber-Related Financial Crime with Ibukun Emmanuel-Adebayo, who is a Vice President of a multinational bank. We discuss the various types of financial crimes, common vulnerabilities within organisation and how to stay protected from financial crime.
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Ibukun Emmanuel-Adebayo is a mum of five, and a long-standing Fellow of the British Computer Society plus a Vice-President and Senior Cybersecurity Expert for a global investment bank.
As an experienced CIO/CISO and GRC leader, she has led and worked with many exceptional individuals within various sectors including as IT Chief at the Royal Albert Hall in...
2019-04-2620 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.3 Surveillance Technology w/Louise Marie HurelSurveillance technology is widely seen in spy fictional movies but it’s much closer to reality than perceived. In this podcast segment we talk about surveillance technology, facial recognition and how it discriminates black women and the trans community. We also touch points on how we can increase our privacy online.
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Louise Marie Hurel is a cybersecurity and Internet governance researcher coordinating Igarapé Institute’s projects on the Cybersecurity and Digital Liberties Program. She holds an MSc in Media and Communications (Data and Society) from the London School of Economics (distinction) and a BA in International Relations from PUC-R...
2019-03-2147 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.2 Oversharing on Social Media w/ Stephen ChapendamaAnyone active in social media can’t deny that they have posted a personal rant or shared a trending post. Even I can’t deny that I’m guilty of this. There is nothing wrong with sharing things online, though, we may know someone (or this maybe you) that gives too much personal information. They fill our news feeds with their day-to-day activities, location check-ins, or relationship updates. In this podcast we discuss the dangers of oversharing on social media.
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Stephen Chapendama is an Assistant Systems Consultant for the University of Hertfordshire and a Technology Consultant for Foundervine with e...
2019-03-0226 minSeidea's SpotlightEp.1 Digital Security 101 for WomenAn unfortunate number of women are become victims of cyber crimes. This podcast looks at why women need to be protect online as well as tips on digital safety.
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Stephanie Itimi is a social entrepreneur who is enthusiastic about internet education and security. She founder of Seidea, a social enterprise focused on helping BAME women build cyber-security careers and Seinfo, a digital library tackling unemployment by empowering African women and youth with the skills needed for remote working.
Stephanie has a track record of supporting...
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