How to Fix the Diversity Gap in Cybersecurity
summary
Security workforce has 11 percent women and under 12 percent minorities, and the field faces an estimated 1.5 million shortage in 2019. Concrete examples show long stagnation (one engineer stays manager for 20 years), dismissive culture (offensive themed parties, firing after calling out sexist imagery), and success from concrete fixes: mentoring, volunteering, sponsored conference access, internal groups like Bugcrowd’s Ladybugs Slack, and global chapters such as WHIS that rebuild networks and retain talent.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:43Speaker background and agenda
- 2:48Diversity gap statistics
- 4:14Understanding unconscious bias
- 6:29Partner activity on listening
- 9:54Reflections on the activity
- 15:46Personal stories of exclusion
- 18:16Speaker’s journey and turning point
- 21:26Solutions to close the gap
- 23:37Call to action and closing
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