![]() ![]() It was through the recruiters that I learned about F5 and initially came to love the company because of its dedication to female leadership and the Girls Who Code program, which helps foster a love of technology for young girls in the Seattle area. Having the opportunity to connect with other women who had the same goals and aspirations as me and speak with companies and recruiters who were passionate about increasing the diversity of their workforce was a very impactful experience. Technology, and especially security, is very male dominated, which, by nature, can make it less welcoming or appealing to women. It’s a completely unique space to be in, and incredibly uplifting because, for many of us, it is the first time that we are surrounded by only women in the tech space. The conference is a whirlwind of networking, interviews, more networking, and workshops. I came to F5 through Grace Hopper Celebration, the largest annual conference for women in computer science in the U.S. Meeting F5 at the Grace Hopper Conference Therefore, a lot of learning about cybersecurity comes from hands-on experience, like internships. When professors have to introduce core concepts of computer science and coding like building classes, allocating computer memory, understanding different data structures and their use cases, and the importance of commenting your code, there isn’t a lot of time left in the last year and a half of school to cover elective topics like secure coding or web security in general. because most computer science programs are designed to take in students who have no experience coding and build them up to a fully functional level in just four years. I think this is probably true across many schools in the U.S. My university computer science curriculum does not offer too many classes related to security. I didn’t really know what I was getting into. I knew I was coming to intern for a cybersecurity company but in all honestly, I had never even taken a class in anything remotely related to security. The letters T-L-S meant virtually nothing to me before starting my internship with F5 Labs. In the summer of 2020, we were excited to welcome Katie Newbold, a Computer Science major from Johns Hopkins University, to build an HTTPS checker (scanner). As a relatively small team of researchers, evangelists, and writers who produce vendor-neutral threat-related content, we look forward every summer to the opportunity to bring in a college intern to help us with special research and data analysis projects. ![]() Editor’s Note: F5 Labs is a threat research and analysis team within F5 Networks. ![]()
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