Just 24% of information security professionals are women, despite a global shortage of information security workers that numbers in the millions. Why do so few women enter the information security? Why do even fewer stick around? In this podcast series we interview prominent women in cyber security to get their thoughts about how to attract women to the field, and keep them around.
In this interview, Camille Stewart, Google’s Head of Security Policy for Google Play and Android explains how understanding how systemic racism influences cyber security is integral to protecting the American people and defending the country from cyber adversaries.
In this episode of the Security Ledger Podcast (#203) we talk about the apparent hack of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar Florida with Frank Downs of the firm BlueVoyant. In our second segment: is infosec’s lack of diversity a bug or a feature? Tennisha Martin of Black Girls Hack joins us to talk about the many obstacles that black women face as they try to enter the information security field.
