--- title: MIWIC26: Sonia Kumar, Senior Director, Cyber Defence and... description: Sonia Kumar, Senior Director of Cyber Defence and Cyber Testing at Analog Devices, shares her career journey from working on a UK MOD military base in 2014 to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/miwic26-sonia-kumar-senior-director-cyber-defence-and-cyber-testing-at-analog-devices-plnkqkwka twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MIWIC26: Sonia Kumar, Senior Director, Cyber Defence and Cyber Testing at Analog Devices | daily.dev og:description: Sonia Kumar, Senior Director of Cyber Defence and Cyber Testing at Analog Devices, shares her career journey from working on a UK MOD military base in 2014 to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/miwic26-sonia-kumar-senior-director-cyber-defence-and-cyber-testing-at-analog-devices-plnkqkwka og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PlNKqkwkA.png og:image:alt: MIWIC26: Sonia Kumar, Senior Director, Cyber Defence and Cyber Testing at Analog Devices og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MIWIC26: Sonia Kumar, Senior Director, Cyber Defence and Cyber Testing at Analog Devices **[IT Security Guru](https://daily.dev/sources/itsecurityguru)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Sonia Kumar, Senior Director of Cyber Defence and Cyber Testing at Analog Devices, shares her career journey from working on a UK MOD military base in 2014 to leading enterprise-wide security operations, threat detection, incident response, and red teaming programs. She discusses the challenge of being heard and respected as a woman in male-dominated rooms, her work building diverse teams at Vodafone Group, and her ongoing mentoring efforts with young people from underrepresented backgrounds through programs like Career Accelerator and Mission Include. She also serves as a non-executive director on Edinburgh Napier University's board. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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