WicyS CyberCon 2024

Featuring Donna Riccardo, Enhancing Interpersonal Communication in Cybersecurity

Nathan S. Evans
Last updated on Nov 13, 2025 News, Updates

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Join WiCyS Colorado for an evening discussing

📣 Enhancing Interpersonal Communication in Cybersecurity 📣

and fun activities like icebreakers, opportunities to engage with members of our cyber community, as well as learning new skills like lock picking 🔐 and decryption.

🎙️ Our Guest Speaker - Donna Riccardo🎙️

Donna has over 30 years of experience in speaking, training and interpersonal communication. She will talk about the significance of effective communication in a predominantly technical and often introverted community. Donna has been very introverted herself, at one time being unable to look someone in the eye and talk to them at the same time. Anything extroverted you see in her has been learned. She knows if she can do it, anyone can.

This talk aims to inspire cybersecurity professionals to embrace and enhance their interpersonal communication skills, ultimately leading to more effective communication, improved team collaboration and better future job opportunities.

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Nathan S. Evans
Nathan S. Evans
Teaching Associate Professor, Academic Director for Cyber Security, University of Denver

Research includes networking, network security, software security and systems.

Interested in a formal cybersecurity or computer science degree?

The University of Denver is proud to offer multiple programs in cybersecurity, whether you want to be a manager or a frontline cyber warrior! Check out our program offerings at the DU Cybersecurity Page. We also have a cybersecurity concentration you can get on your way to a Computer Science degree! You can also email us if you want to learn more!

The programs in the Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science are strongly technically grounded, and provide a CS/Cyber education for the future of cybersecurity.

Accreditation

The University of Denver is recognized as an NSA (National Security Agency) CAE-CD (Center of Academic Excellence – Cyber Defense). The NSA evaluates and accredits institutions providing cybersecurity degrees and curricula — a rigorous and prestigious validation performed by security experts and members of other educational institutions. It means the coursework of the Cybersecurity MS program at DU aligns with criteria mapped to the US government's NICE framework knowledge units.

More information can be found at the official NSA academic site here.