Dr. Carrie Gates (BSc’93, MSc’95, PhD’06) has been named one of the top five women leading the way in cyber security by the Computer Business Review (CBR).

According to the CBR, only 10 percent of those working in the field of cyber security are female. Despite this large under-representation, there are several women leading the way in the field. CBR has compiled a short bio of each of the women included in its list of Women working in cyber security you really need to know about:

Dr. Carrie Gates: Gates’ title at Dell is Senior Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist in Dell Research. In practise this means she formulates Dell’s security across the board, taking in both its hardware and software divisions. Indeed the company credits her as one of the factors for its growing presence in cyber security.

Gates is also a highly regarded academic, with 40 peer reviewed papers to her name on computer and network security. She has also served as director of research for CA Labs.

Dr. Gates completed a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, and PhD in computer science at Dal.

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