Celebrating Women’s History Month with Contrast CMO Tara Ryan

Not all cybersecurity women’s roots are planted in silicon. Tara Ryan — Contrast’s CMO (aka our Chief Storyteller) — started out as a farmgirl in Fresno, known as the Midwest of California. Her tender young years were spent breathing in the concept of seed to shelf: cultivation that, fittingly enough, is automated by much of the software she’s worked on over the last 25 years. Take note that Tara is named after Ireland’s good, green Hill of Tara. Think terra firma, think earth, think “the Land of the Vikings,” but don’t think you can ignore her, even if, as is often the case, she’s the only woman in the room. In this episode, Tara shares her take on what it takes to succeed as a woman in tech and cybersecurity,  including the rows she’s had to hoe and the lessons she’s harvested along the way.

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