Championing Women in Cybersecurity Jobs

Women are less likely to apply for jobs they’re not qualified for, and without a push we’re likely see a gender gap in IT security for a long time. “Only 13 to 18 percent of the cybersecurity workforce is women,” said Lisa Person, an advocate for IT security best practices and past leader for CompTIA’s IT Security Community. “There’s this other 30 percent who are not engaging, and if we could get even 10 percent of those people to join cybersecurity we can start to fill that gap.”

For business owners and managers struggling to bridge the gender gap in IT Security, put on your UX hat and consider ways you can overcome the barriers keeping women from cybersecurity jobs.
Bridge the Confidence Gap

Even if they know about cybersecurity and can see a path to entry, many people outside of IT security don’t think they have the right education or experience to join the industry. To get more women to apply at your company, make your job listings approachable to outsiders.

“Job listings can be like bad online dating profiles,” said Lysa Myers, a security researcher for ESET and CompTIA Communities member. “It can be a laundry list of ‘I want this and not that,’ and the people reading it — especially people from groups that are less represented — are going to look at that and completely recoil.”

Use augmented writing tools to scrub out biased language, post jobs in online forums specifically for women and reconsider old standards like requiring a bachelor’s degree and having a minimum of five years’ experience. “What if they learned in three years what another learned in five?” Myers said.
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