International Visitors Discuss Best Practices in Cybersecurity, Women in Computing

Jandelyn Plane (far left), director of the Maryland Center for Women in Computing, and Jonathan Katz (far right), director of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center (MC2), met with Zainab Mohammad (second from left), a computer engineer in the Kuwait Ministry of Electricity and Water, and Aisha Bushager, Ph.D., manager of the cyberspace program in the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies.

MC2 is one of 15 centers and labs in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, which also supports the women in computing center.

Bushager and Mohammad visited the university to discuss best practices related to cybersecurity and women in computing as part of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program. The program is administered through the World Trade Center Institute.