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Rajvi Shroff is an award-winning Woman in Cyber Scholarship Winner in 2024 and is a first-year college
student majoring in computer science. She is a 4-time CTF national winner and 2-time National Cyber
Scholar with Honors in national cybersecurity competitions, including Girls Go Cyberstart and CyberStart
America, having placed in the top 34 in the US. She is a cybersecurity
public speaker and has spoken at various SANS conferences and for
the Linux Foundation about technologies such as quantum computers
and topics such as cryptography, including keynoting at the SANS Pen
Test Hackfest Summit. She has the GIAC GSEC and GIAC GFACT
cybersecurity certifications and was invited to and is currently on the
GIAC Advisory Board for scoring higher than 90% on the GSEC
certification. She is the founder of Cyber Student Crew (previously
Project Cyber), a global platform for cybersecurity-minded teens to
write articles about digital security. She also served on the Youth
Advisory Board for KQED, a public media broadcasting organization
affiliated with NPR, where she co-produced a live radio talk show
segment on cybersecurity to increase public awareness, for KQED Forum. She was named one of the
2023 Aspirations in Computing National Award Winners by NCWIT, the National Center for Women &
Information Technology. Rajvi can be reached online at https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajvi-khanjan-
shroff-791007261 or via email: [email protected]

Kylie is a recent graduate of George Mason University where she obtained
her Bachelors of Science degree in Cybersecurity Engineering with a
minor in intelligence analysis. She currently holds two certifications, the
Comptia Security + and Nowsecure Secure Mobile Development
Professional. She is working full time at a leading mobile security
company, NowSecure, as an Application Security Analyst where she does
all types of fun things like exploit vulnerable apps, secure mobile
application development, and contribute to exciting projects and
important initiatives that are consistently highlighted throughout the
security industry. In addition, she also works part time with startup
company, Auspex Labs, as a Cybersecurity Software Developer, where
she is the main developer on Diplomacy™, a geopolitical threat intelligence engine that combines a broad
assortment of metrics and NLP sentiment analysis to calculate nuanced and real-time threat scores per
nation state. She is also co-founder and CTO of Xenophon Analytics, a company that grew from shared
interests in international political affairs and her project of building the geopolitical risk engine. With
her award, she has received an opportunity for a part-time internship with CDM as a cybersecurity
reporter and blogger. Reach out to her with story ideas: [email protected].

Congratulations to all our winners!

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