It’s not working, but it can. Despite government and private sector efforts to retain more women in the global cybersecurity profession, women are sorely underrepresented in the industry. And the stagnation of women in the cyber workforce is noteworthy, says the 2017 Global Information Workforce Study: Women in Cybersecurity by Frost & Sullivan, because the cyber gap continues to grow. Attracting women to the workforce across all regions has the potential to shrink the workforce gap, but only if female executives can be attracted, hired and retained in sufficient numbers.
In addition, says the report, overall men outnumber women by a margin of approximately nine to one. And no where is this trend more notable than in the upper echelons of organizations where men dominate senior roles, including Directors, Executive Management, and the C-Suite.