New Horizons for Women in Cybersecurity

If you have written a job ad recently, you know that words matter and keywords matter online.

Even more important, is the overall vision for the role and how that is expressed.

The legal profession is a good example. Many lawyers leave the field after a few years, or even after many years, due to job dissatisfaction or the desire to broaden their horizons. Lawyering skills such as analysis, deep thinking, organization, discipline, writing, and speaking transfer very well to other professions.

Of course, the same holds true for other professions in terms of transferable skills — such as accountants, brokers, and salespeople.

So why does the idea of transferable skills become muddled in cybersecurity? ZDNet explores this mixup and the fixup regarding hiring for cybersecurity jobs.

What about gender parity in cybersecurity? According to the recent Guide for Women in Cybersecurity, anecdotal evidence indicates a shift toward more equal treatment for women in cybersecurity.

More women are now being promoted to executive cybersecurity positions than ever before, so optimism is increasing.

Even if this change in attitude is being prompted by the necessity of unfilled job positions, it is a positive trend for women.

Cybersecurity companies are placing increasing emphasis on both finding new avenues to recruit females to the workforce and altering their internal environments and processes to retain females for longer than has historically been the case.

With the shortage of professionals in the industry as a whole being so dramatic, there are no quick fixes to increasing women in cybersecurity from the present 20 percent participation to the goal of parity. Not to mention the dilemma on how to word the job ads.

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