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Women Held Only 10% of Top Executive Positions in U.S. in 2017

June 1, 2018

The roles women are filling within the C-Suite are largely legal or financial ones, which are less likely to lead to the CEO’s chair than more operations-focused roles, Pew Research says.

Study Finds Gender Wage Gap is Widening

May 2, 2018

The gender wage gap is widening, particularly for women under 40, according to a three-year study by HR analytics and software company Visier.

Minority Cybersecurity Professionals Hold Fewer Leadership Roles

March 15, 2018

Although minority representation in cybersecurity is higher than the overall U.S. workforce (26 percent vs. 21 percent), these professionals are disproportionately in non-management roles.

How Sexual Misconduct Threatens the Security Industry

Real and Reputational Risk

Julie Anne Friend

March 13, 2018

Security professionals are tasked with addressing reputational risk as well as physical risk, but are our own departments and industry doing enough to avoid being a risk to the enterprise as a whole? It’s time to take a good, hard look at your workplace and ask if it is inclusive, supportive and fair.

SIA Establishes Women in Security Forum

March 9, 2018

The Security Industry Association (SIA) announced on March 8 that it was establishing a Women in Security Forum to support the participation of women in the security industry. According to SIA, “through programs, professional development and networking events, the committee will engage members, both men and women, who share this goal.”

Where Opportunity Knocks

Diane Ritchey

September 1, 2017

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.

Changing the Hoodie Image for Cybersecurity

No More Hoodies: Why We Need to Attract More Women to Cyber

Theresa Payton

July 6, 2017

What image flashes in your mind when you hear the word cybersecurity? Is it a room filled with happy, diverse, productive people making a difference in the world around them? Sadly no. More than likely, it’s a guy hunched over his computer wearing a dark hoodie with some ones and zeros floating above his head.

7 Things I've Learned About Being a Woman in Executive Protection

By Rachael Paskvan

September 9, 2016

A lot of people are surprised to learn that women work in executive protection – and that I’m one of them.

Report: Women Remain Underrepresented in Information Security

September 29, 2015

Over the past few years, women have represented approximately 10 percent of the information security workforce, but analysis from two recent (ISC) information security workforce surveys shows that women are quickly converging on men in terms of academic focus, computer science and engineering, and, as a gender, have a higher concentration of advanced degrees.