Tag: Emma Barkley
For International Women’s Day, cyber professionals offer insight
March 7, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Cybersecurity represents the bleeding edge of electronic security and the fertile ground in which new technologies like artificial intelligence is grown, but there’s a growing resource that remains woefully untapped.
A report titled “Women in Cybersecurity 2022” found that roughly only 25% of the global cybersecurity workforce consisted of women.
For International Women’s Day Security Systems News spoke with several professionals to...
Women in Security Profile: ‘Women need to empower each other to know they belong at the table,’ says Emma Barkley
March 4, 2025Kenneth Z. Chutchian, Contributing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine—Emma Barkley, strategic sales manager for JCI Security Products, believes that there are several key elements that could increase diversity in the security industry.
“This past summer, I had the pleasure of leading a workshop at the Security LeadHER Conference called ‘Security Women Actively Supporting Women,’" she said. “While it's common for women to say they support each other and participate in groups like WISF, we need to ask ourselves:...
SSN, SIA WISF to continue partnership to promote diversity in 2025
December 3, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine, and SILVER SPRING, Md.—Security Systems News is proud to partner again in 2025 with the Security Industry Association's (SIA’s) Women in Security Forum (WISF) to spotlight an incredibly diverse list of security professionals (see list below) to be highlighted in special features throughout the year.
SSN and SIA WISF began the partnership in 2021 and in 2022, expanded coverage beyond one issue with one person profiled in each issue, as well as online at...