Cyber Security-related Blogs, Interviews, Speeches, Commentaries and Slants by Sophia Bekele
10th Anniversary of the GRC2023 Conference in Las Vegas
Oct 16, 2023, 10th Anniversary of the GRC2023
Finding a long-term solution to curb Cybercrimes in the digital sphere
28th October 2022, Cybercrime in digital sphere
GRC 2022 Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA
Sep 2, 2022 GRC 2022 Conference in Orlando, Florida, USA
RSA Cyber Security Conference
Click on the links below to read the articles authored by Sophia
- 2025 LinkedIn – My Smishing Adventure: When a “Friend” Led Me to a Burner phone and the Secret Service
- 2025 LinkedIn – Deepfakes: Hijacking Reality and Threatening Our Future
- 2025 LinkedIn – Why the Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E) Led by Elon Musk Needs Checks and Balances to Build Trust with the American People
- 2023 ISACA – Breaking Through the Barriers of Leadership: Women in the Metaverse
- 2023 ISACA –The Role Of Transparency and Accountability in Digital Transformation
- 2023 Breaking Through the Barriers of Leadership: Women in the Metaverse
- 2023 The Role Of Transparency and Accountability in Digital Transformation
- 2022 RAS Conference: Sophia Bekele Contributed to Web 3.0 and Its Cybersecurity Implications
- 2016 The Hill: Would internet transition have an impact on current US election?
- 2016 The Hill: Fixing what is not broken: November 2016 Elections will determine fate of Internet Privatization
- 2016 Circle ID: 2015: CircleID: Wikileaks 2012, NSA 2013, NTIA mishaps and global cyber crime 2014: U.S. exceptionalism over IG 2015?
- 2013 CircleID: From Wikileaks of 2012 to Snowden’s NSA Leaks of 2013: Implications for Global Internet Governance
- 2012 CircleID: Emerging Cyber-Security Threats and Implications for the Private Sector
Interviews
- 2015 Sophia Bekele: AU Declaration on Internet Governance (IG) needs more participation, infringes on national sovereigntySophia Bekele: AU Declaration on Internet Governance (IG) needs more participation, infringes on national sovereignty Staff Writer
- 2014 CIO Africa The AUCC Debate on Cybersecurity Needs to Involve All StakeholdersStakeholders
Speaking Engagements
- 2022 GRC 2022 International Conference: Sophia shares her “Vision 2030: Enabling Digital Transparency & Accountability through Digital Transformation”, Sophia Bekele shares her “Vision 2030: Enabling Digital Transparency & Accountability through Digital Transformation”, at the GRC 2022 International Conference
- 2019 SF ISACA Chapter 2019 Fall Conference, Bekele Speaks on Business Ethics: “The Market has no Morality”
With over a decade of transforming lives and businesses via technology in Africa and across the Globe and leading her organization with passion and grit, Bekele has received many accolades and recognition for her work.
- In 2023, the US-based CIO Views dubbed Sophia Bekele “An Influential & Fearless Trailblazer in Technology Leading Business on Her Own Terms”. Sophia was also recognized and awarded as one of the “10 Most Powerful Women Leaders in Business to Follow, In 2023, US-based Success Pitchers Magazine selected her for their cover feature story as a “Serial Lifestyle Techprenure, Changing Lives and Businesses through Innovation”.
- In 2022, She was enlisted as one of the “100 Most Influential African Women Leaders & Pioneers” by the Leading African PR & Rating firm, Avance Media, noting “Sophia is among the Most Influential African Women, working to inspire the continent through her Excellence business leadership and performance, Personal accomplishments, her commitment to sharing knowledge and her continuous effort to break the gender digital divide in Africa”.
- In 2021, Sophia was dubbed 2021 Women of Influence Honoree, by Silicon Valley Business Journal, celebrating women of outstanding achievement in their industry and community. She was also honored with the 2021 CEO Today Africa Awards for exceptional business leadership and growth, and for those individuals who shine as examples of excellence when faced with unprecedented challenges.
- in 2018, Africa Link honored awarded her with the Champion of Development Award at the 2018 Solidarity Awards in Switzerland
- In 2017, the TU/UN Equals in Tech Awards program was named a finalist for the Hundreds of young women and girls’ tech initiatives that have benefited 12 African Countries from support by Miss.Africa Digital Seed-Funding impact program. Noting her significant contributions to the industry, in 2017, CIO East Africa named her “Industry Trailblazer” and “Internet Governance Pioneer”.
- In 2015, she was widely acclaimed as one of the “Two Leading ladies” in Africa’s ICT sector and “African Women to Watch” by Bloomberg TV, recognizing women as “most fearless, competitive and visionary African women of our time and “the women working hard to close the gender gap and shaping the continent’s social, political and economic landscape”.
- In 2014, ADIPWE enumerated her as one of the “Top 20 Inspirational African Diaspora Professional Women in Europe” for her work in technology transfer from the West.
- In 2013, she was named as one of the “50 African Trailblazers – a Future Made in Africa” by the NewAfrican Magazine, noting all her accomplishments, including initiating, organizing, and leading the wildly acclaimed and successful 6-year Yes2DotAfrica multi-lingual global awareness ground and social media campaign for the “.africa” Internet domain name, which held a position of top 50 topmost attractive new domains from among 1930 global domains by industry rating agency, also earning her a title “brains behind .africa’, by African media.