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As attention grows, #ShareTheMicInCyber leaders explain why mid-career talent matters

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#ShareTheMicInCyber, a group dedicated to boosting diversity in the cyber field, will host its fourth online conversation pairing Black practitioners with allies in the security sector to highlight Black talent. “Individual action is extremely important and can catalyze collective action,” co-founder Camille Stewart said at CyberWeek, a Scoop News Group event. “Grassroots movements like #ShareTheMicInCyber can help break down the trust silos that plague our industry and cripple progress.” The lesson seems especially pertinent as government agencies have in recent months had to grapple with the challenge of filling critical cybersecurity jobs. An upcoming #ShareTheMicEvent, scheduled for Oct. 22, will focus on public-private partnership, and include high profile cybersecurity leaders like Rob Joyce, cybersecurity director at the National Security Agency. “Getting this right is mission-critical,” co-founder Lauren Zabierek explained. “And it’s not just a job for HR or for the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion team. It’s on all of […]

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Taking steps to break down systemic racism in cybersecurity

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Racism, like cybersecurity, is a national security issue. Systemic racism prevents diverse perspectives from informing policy and security. As a result, it hampers our ability to understand and combat misinformation and to address our society’s vulnerabilities so as to prevent our adversaries from exploiting them. Systemic racism also blinds us from seeing and leveraging the diverse experiences before us, undermining our ability to understand how all communities use technology and to ensure different voices are welcomed, heard, and protected in our national security institutions. We all have a role to play in the security of our nation, and there are so many institutional, systemic, and overt racial biases that make this problem so complex. So how do we start to dismantle them? We must start by acknowledging that these problems exist in our industry and begin taking tangible steps to educate ourselves on the impact of slavery and systemic racism […]

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