As the race to recruit female talent in STEM continues moving ahead with steady progress, stunning statistics still wrack the cybersecurity sector: Women working in cybersecurity currently account for less than one quarter of the overall workforce.
, with 377,000 of those vacancies located in the United States. By that measure, the global cybersecurity workforce will need to grow 65% in 2022 to effectively defend organizations' critical assets." to filling the worldwide cyber vacancies. A survey commissioned by Microsoft Security found that only 44% of female respondents felt sufficiently represented in their industry.Part of the federal government's cyber strategy is just showing up.
"I think people have to understand that even though cybersecurity works best when it's invisible, there are so many people behind it," said WiCyS founder Dr. Ambareen Siraj. Unclogging the cyber talent pipeline will require more than just breaking a stereotype though, with experts advocating for more outreach to non-traditional candidates.
Just 38% of women came from an IT background, compared to half of men in today's cybersecurity workforce. According to the"We're now seeing an opening in the market for cyber skills. It's not so siloed in that you must have a cybersecurity degree," McMahon added.Just 25.2% of the full-time federal cyber workforce is female, compared to 43.6% of government workers nationwide, according to the non-profit, which assesses data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and U.
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