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suggests that gender diversity efforts could boost the global GDP by $28 trillion if the global workforce
became equally gender-diverse by 2025.

Budgets only matter as much as the intentions behind them. Republicans and democrats can debate line
items for months to come, but that would be wasted time when we consider our current cyber threat
landscape. We have the right tools at our fingertips to improve public sector cyber preparedness – it’s
just a matter of getting those tools in the hands of the right people and putting the controls in place to
ensure they don’t fail. President Biden was right on at least one point: “We need everyone to do their part
to meet one of the defining threats of our time.” Our vigilance and urgency today can prevent – or at least
lessen the severity of – attacks tomorrow.

About the Author

Teddra Burgess is the Senior Vice President, Public Sector
at Tanium, and is a seasoned expert with over two decades
of broad industry expertise. Over the course of her career,
Teddra has been instrumental to the success of several high-
profile technology companies including Hewlett Packard,
Micro Focus International, CA Technologies, SAI Global, and
ASG Technologies where she served as VP of Northeast and
US Federal Sales.
An advocate for advancing women+ and people of color in
technology, Teddra joined Pipeline Angels, an organization
changing the face of angel investing by creating capital for
women+ founders, as an independent investor in 2019. In
2020, she earned an Executive Certificate in DE&I from Cornell University, and is active in a variety of
community and professional organizations including Women in Technology, AFCEA, the NAACP and
Mocha Moms, Inc. She is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Teddra can be reached online at Email: [email protected], Twitter: @teddratburgess, LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/teddrathomasburgess/ and at our company website http://www.tanium.com/.

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