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Evelyn de Souza Data Privacy and Compliance Leader Cisco Systems

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“If you can dream it you can do it”

Walt Disney

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• My Life to Date: 3 Acts

How a Multi-disciplinary Approach Has Benefited Me

• My Second Act: From Internet Security Marketer to Compliance to Data Privacy

Carving out a Niche: Cloud Security Alliance

Compliance Leadership

• My Third Act: The Best is Yet to Come

Privacy Takes Front Stage

Never Been a Better Time to be a Woman in Technology

Why Career Longevity Matters

Maximizing on Your Career Choices

• Questions and Links to Resources


Act 1

Act 2

Act 3

• A child of the 70’s & 80’s • A musician and a rebel at heart • International citizen • First career as a music teacher

• Moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000

• Intense career change to Internet Security Marketer / Compliance Leader

• Recognized as an alien of extraordinary ability by U.S. Immigration

• Started at Cisco in 2013 • Focus on Data Privacy Rights • Goal to make the Internet safe for

our children • Women of Influence 2015, Top

10 women in Cloud for 2014


1. Technologists need to pair with humanists

2. Yin and yang approaches

3. Universities and research centers moving towards multi-disciplinary teams

Source: http://blogs.cisco.com/security/on-letting-uniqueness-shine

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Read a lot

Took introductory computer programming courses

Most importantly lunched with the engineers and product management – learned to think more in their shoes

Found an emerging area to become an expert on where nobody else at my company had expertise but there was a business need for this skillset


https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/ccm/


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1 Steps

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• Never start the day without breakfast

• Make a list and prioritize the most strategic activities

• Spend 30 minutes each day researching a new issue and its impact to technology

• Customer calls and meetings / conference event

• Write for 40 minutes most days

• Industry interface – spend 1 hour every day on developing new industry blueprints

• Find someone new to reach out to at Cisco


• The ability to be part of an incredibly exciting era – who could have foreseen the Internet of Everything becoming a reality so fast???

• Work with diverse and super talented people

• The ability to define my job

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Most Permissive Most Restrictive

Applicable Laws

Data Residency and Data Portability

Government Data Collection and Monitoring

User Consent

Data Protection Measures Against Unlawful and Deceptive Practices


Email: [email protected]

Link to CloudTweaks blog: http://cloudtweaks.com/author/evelyn/

Link to Twitter: https://twitter.com/e_desouza

Call for a Global Bill of Internet Rights

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Define yourself. Don’t be defined by somebody else Find a Mentor both in Your Company and Within Industry

My Parting Advice to You

Thank you.

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