If you work in cybersecurity like I do, you are probably aware of two major issues within the industry: 1) there is a significant skills gap and 2) there is a lack of gender diversity. Now is the time to do something about them. Perhaps two problems can be fixed with one solution.
Currently, women are only about 25% of the global cybersecurity workforce and in North America the gender gap is even worse—with a cybersecurity workforce in which only 14% are women. A recent (ISC) 2 cybersecurity workforce report says that “all areas of cybersecurity are affected” by staffing shortages. And the skills gap problem isn’t going away, as the (ISC)2 report also states that the global cybersecurity workforce must expand by 65% to effectively defend organizations against the ever-growing global threat landscape.
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