Undoubtedly, our industry needs to create more initiatives to attract a more diverse group of professionals—including women—to STEM-focused careers like cybersecurity. While we’ve collectively made some progress on this front, a great deal of work still needs to be done to bring women into cybersecurity-focused roles and create meaningful career paths for them to grow and progress within the industry.
While women make up nearly 50% of the world’s population, they only account for an estimated 24% of the cybersecurity workforce. At the same time, the cybersecurity skills gap remains dangerously high, and the volume of cyberattacks impacting organizations of all shapes and sizes is growing every day.
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