Profile
Maril Vernon (@SheWhoHacks) known as the “One Woman Purple Team'' is an Ethical Hacker, Senior Application Security Architect and Purple Team Program Manager — a niche in offensive security testing that has recently gained popularity demonstrating cyber resilience in the advanced threat landscape. Maril is also Co-host and Co-founder of The Cyber Queens Podcast, an all-female-lead podcast aimed at increasing female and LGBTQ diversity in cybersecurity. She also serves as the COO of Teach Kids Tech, a non-profit organization with the goal of getting technology and educational resources to children in underprivileged communities and increasing technical capability and cyber awareness in tomorrow’s workforce. Maril has been named one of the ‘Epic Women in Cyber,’ 2023 CyberSHEcurity “Top 10 Women in Cyber,” and is the 2023 Women’s CyberJustu Female Hacker of the Year. She is also an SME and contributing writer to CSO Online magazine on cyber resilience, Red Team best practices and industry trends.