Security researcher Kristin Paget, known in the cybersecurity industry as Hacker Princess, has won the (ISC)² Diversity Award.
US resident Paget was among the 2020 Global Achievement Awards honorees named today by the world’s largest nonprofit association of certified cybersecurity professionals. The annual awards recognize and celebrate the most outstanding annual and lifetime achievements in the field of cybersecurity.
Paget joined Apple in 2012 but was poached two years later by Tesla Motors. After a stint at Lyft designing security systems for self-driving cars, Paget took a position with Intel.
A spokesperson for (ISC)² said: “The (ISC)² Diversity Award, which honors an individual who represents the core values of (ISC)² through significant contributions in driving a more diverse workforce in the cybersecurity community, is presented to Kristin Paget, who currently resides in the US.”
The organization said that Paget had earned the gong for being someone “who has continually promoted and represented diversity through her positions as ‘Hacker Princess’ in the security departments of several leading technology companies.”
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