Women in CTI: No Typical Path
Published by Filigran. Download the full eBook.
My Role
Program manager and editorial lead. I ran the Women in CTI eBook for Filigran. Working from sixteen recorded interviews, I shaped each woman’s story and the arc of the book. I directed our content agency, Bora, through drafting and edited every chapter until it read right.
Women in CTI was founded by my colleagues Mary D’Angelo and Einat Argon. The eBook turned their community’s conversations into something anyone could read.
Every contributor was thrilled with how her story came out.
I also wrote the launch article, Women in Cyber Threat Intelligence: No Typical Path, on the Filigran Blog. It pulls out three of the stories and makes the case for how security teams should rethink hiring.
Overview
Women in CTI: The careers, lessons, and stories shaping cyber threat intelligence brings together sixteen conversations with women working across the CTI field — from analysts and researchers to engineers and security leaders. Across nine chapters, they share how they found their way into threat intelligence, the work that keeps them there, and the people who supported them along the way.
There’s no single route into CTI, and the eBook leans into that. Contributors came in from intelligence, engineering, customer-facing roles, research, and entirely different careers.
Featured Contributors
Contributors include:
- Amanda Capobianco — CTI Manager, Richemont
- Jasmina Zito — Head of Threat Intelligence and Red Team, Canva
- Karla Reffold — Chief Insights Officer, Surefire Cyber
- Jane Ginn — Cyber Threat Analyst and Co-founder, Cyber Threat Intelligence Network
- Cheryl Biswas — Cybersecurity Researcher
- Angélique Jard — Principal Software Engineer, OpenCTI, Filigran
- Einat Argon — Manager, Customer Success, Filigran
What It Covers
- Different entry points into a CTI career
- Mentorship and the role of community
- Building credibility and trust as an analyst
- How AI is changing threat intelligence work
- Notable investigations and breakthroughs
- Common misconceptions about the field
- What keeps people in CTI for the long haul
