How to Fix the Diversity Gap in Cybersecurity

Presented at Global AppSec - DC 2019, Sept. 13, 2019, 3:30 p.m. (45 minutes).

Women make up just 11 percent and minorities are slightly less than 12 percent of the cybersecurity workforce. Also, only 4% of hackers are women. Coming from a nonprofit background, which is an industry with a high diversity, to one where it is so unbalanced. It’s disheartening and I’ve connected with persons who are underrepresented in the field, and many after spending years in cybersecurity are leaving the field. From their shared experiences as well as my own, it is clear that the cybersecurity space needs to get real about the lack of diversity in the space, and the necessity to make changes as we approach the estimated shortage of 1.5 million cybersecurity professionals in In this talk, we will discuss our brains and how we label and prejudge, hear experiences of underrepresented people in the space, what can be done to fill the gap, and how to increase and retain the number of qualified candidates in cybersecurity.


Presenters:

  • Chloé Messdaghi - Point3 Security   as Chloe Messdaghi
    Chloé Messdaghi is the VP of Strategy at Point3 Security. She is a security researcher advocate who pushes for hacker rights, and strongly believes that information security is a humanitarian issue. Besides her passion to keep people safe and empowered online & offline, she is driven to change the statistics of women in InfoSec. She's the President and cofounder of Women of Security (WoSEC) and heads the SF Bay Area chapter. As well, she created WomenHackerz, a global online community that provides support and resources for hundreds of women hackers at all levels.

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