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GENDER DIVERSITY IN CYBERSECURITY: WHAT WORKS
BSides ManchesterJane Frankland, Founder of Cyber Security Capital, [email protected]
OBJECTIVETo help you understand the importance of gender diversity, leave you feeling empowered and inspired to help.
Who am I?
• Entrepreneur, speaker, consultant, mentor and author
• 18-yrs experience in security, former owner of Corsaire, a penetration testing company
• Worked as a Director at NCC Group and SensePost
• SC Magazine Awards Judge• Board Advisor for ClubCISO• Cyber Security Woman of the Year finalist• Mum to 3 kids
WHY DOES GENDER DIVERSITY IN CYBERSECURITY MATTER?
How this all came about?
What’s happened?
Economics
• McKinsey & Co. reported that full gender equality would add 26%, or $28T, to global gross domestic product by 2025.
• Productive, innovative and able to stay on schedule and within budget, compared to homogenous teams.
• When women are politically and economically empowered counties are more stable.
Performance
• Women think differently to men due to the way we’re programmed.
• Any time you have uniformity of thought, you miss out on the most creative solutions or tactics and these help us beat the threat actors.
• http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2013/section-seven-online-only-content/data-explorer/
FIVE CHALLENGES
CHALLENGE ONEDeveloping talent.
In schools
• Raytheon and the National Cybersecurity Alliance surveyed the career interests and educational preparedness Gen Ys in 12 countries, 62% of men and 75% of women said no secondary or high school computer classes offered the skills to help them pursue a career in cyber security.
In universities
• Computer science is offered by 123 UK higher education institutions, and there were 91,565 undergraduates (of all years) in 2013-14.
• 19% were female & computer science accounts for 3.5% of all UK graduates.
• Universities are not preparing students for the workplace effectively.
• In the UK 11% are unemployed after 6 months of graduating – the highest rate of all degrees.
In the workplace
• Global spending is set to rise to $1Tn in from 2017 to 2021 and the cost of cybercrime to global businesses, annually, is between $2-$3Tn.
• Cybersecurity job postings are growing 3.5 times faster than IT jobs; there are 1m vacant cybersecurity jobs globally and this is set to rise to 6M by 2020.
• The shortages are: security analyst, security auditor, security architect, forensic analyst and incident handler.
CHALLENGE TWOMarketing.
Profile our buyers
Suppliers
CISOs
Employees
Image
Perception is reality
Language
Cyber warfare
Contextual Ambitious
Leading
Decisive
Cyber warrior
Competitive Support
InterpersonalRelationships
Complementary
STEM evolves to STEAM
Proceed with caution
CHALLENGE THREEProfessionalism & standardisation.
Story time
Accreditations
CHALLENGE FOURRecruitment.
The 3 stakeholders
Recruitment Agencies
Human Resources
Hiring Managers
Solve the riddle
A father and his son are in a car accident. The father does not survive, and the son is badly injured. An ambulance
takes the son to the hospital, where the surgeon cries out:
“I cannot operate because this boy is my son!”
Solutions by design
Confidence & competence
CHALLENGE FIVEWorkplace culture.
Howard Heidi
Visible role models
Mentoring & sponsoring
WHAT NEXT?
Four important shifts
1. Technology advancement
• By 2025 5Bn people online, 75% will come from emerging economies and >50Bn connected devices.
• Tech will rise - mobile, IoT and cloud.• As the cloud becomes ubiquitous, the
ability for creating a global infrastructure upon which services, resources and applications will sit will be developed.
• AI and machine learning will replace jobs.
2. Education needs grow
• By 2025 >262 million enrolled students at unis in the world – mostly from emerging markets.
• Online analytical and adaptive learning technologies will support the process of learning.
• Courses will be tailored to learning styles – kinesthetic, visual, auditory. Some will be free.
• 20M STEM graduates / yr and mostly from emerging markets.
3. Demographics
• By 2025 850M people will be over 65-yrs. • Developed countries have declining birth
rates, due to increasing female education, personal choice and enhanced child medical provisioning, and ageing populations, some are retiring and dependent on working adults.
• Emerging markets, have the opposite - higher birth rates and more working-age adults.
4. Globalisation
• The world is joined up, better connected and consuming and developing low cost and thrifty innovation.
• India and China are rapidly becoming major talent pools of the world. However, as they grow, they’re also increasing their consumption on energy resources and as a result the rising costs there will be a reduction in the movement of goods and transportation of people.
Imagine….
Finally…
Find out about the book - http://jane-frankland.com/events/the-book
Connect with me on LinkedIn – http://linkedin.com/in/janefrankland
Email me for more information – [email protected]