March is Women’s History Month, so it’s a perfect time of the year to look back and see how far women in cybersecurity have come. From pioneering tech to achieving…
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Innovation Through Diverse Thinking: Amplifying Gender Diversity and Shrinking the Skills Gap
Cybersecurity Help Wanted Those of us who work in the cybersecurity field continue to witness the capabilities of adversaries outpace the profession’s ability to protect their organizations. Compounding this issue…
3 Things to Do Today to Help Combat the Gender Gap in Cybersecurity
The cybersecurity industry has a problem: In 2019, women made up only 20 percent of the cybersecurity workforce. This statistic would be alarming in any industry given the amount of…
9 Strategies for Retaining Women in Cybersecurity and STEM in 2020
In March 2017, (ISC)2 published the results of its annual “Global Information Security Workforce Study,” a survey of 19,641 people working in the cybersecurity field across 170 different countries. Of…
Career and Management Advice to Improve Diversity From 21 Leading Women in Cybersecurity
Women in cybersecurity now represent 20 percent of the workforce, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. There’s still a long way to go in closing the industry gender gap, especially when you…
Biased AI Is Another Sign We Need to Solve the Cybersecurity Diversity Problem
Artificial intelligence (AI) excels at finding patterns like unusual human behavior or abnormal incidents. It can also reflect human flaws and inconsistencies, including 180 known types of bias. Biased AI…
Women in Security Speak Out at RSAC 2019, But There’s Still a Long Way to Go
Cybersecurity still has a gender diversity gap and a huge talent shortage, but the industry is making progress — albeit slowly. A recent study by Cybersecurity Ventures predicted that women…
Celebrating International Women’s Day: Why We Need Better Representation of Women in Security
It’s International Women’s Day — so where are the women in cybersecurity? Years ago, while working in product marketing for a network security vendor, I attended my employer’s big user…
4 Ways to Overcome the Cyber Workforce Shortage
As 2018 draws to a close, the state of the cyber workforce can be summed up in two words: “Help Wanted!” The numbers prove it: In November, the National Institute…
How Emerging Technologies Can Unexpectedly Advance — Or Impede — Cybersecurity Gender Inclusion
Cybersecurity problems and deficiencies have been front-page news for some time, yet some of the industry’s most intractable — and embarrassing — themes remain the same. Along with SQL injections,…