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title: "Women in Information Security: Hey Anne and Kathy!"
date: 2006-09-14T19:22:46Z
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[Discovering Identity: 1 Man 200 Women Sun Identity Manager 7.0](http://blogs.sun.com/identity/entry/1_man_200_women_sun "1 Man   200 Women   Sun Identity Manager 7.0")

Its great to see someone talking about an IT conference where women outnumbered men so heavily. Ok so it was a conference _for_ women, but that doesn’t lessen the quality of the people, obviously.

But as Mark says: “The attendees were exceptional contributors to the field of information security – mostly Chief Information Security Officers, Directors of Information Security from major corporations, or highly influential practitioners in the Information Security field. For example the woman who won the Sun-sponsored prize drawing at the end of the evening was Rhonda MacLean of MacLean Risk Partners, who is a Distinguished Senior Fellow with Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab. It was an honor to be including in such an elite group – even if I was the only man around.”

Sun has its own privacy supremo, [Michelle Dennedy](http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/bios/bios-dennedy.html), while IBM’s chief privacy officer is Harriet Pearson (who you can hear speaking through here. interestingly enough [IBM’s Todd Watson 0wnz Harriet](http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/Turbo?entry=ibm_chief_privacy_officer_harriet) on [Microsoft Live search](http://a9.com/?q=ibm+harriet+pearson&sourceid=mozilla-search).)