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A study from non-profit ISC2 finds that the cybersecurity fields bucks U.S. trends of pay disparities between men and women.
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Dozens of technology companies, including several cybersecurity firms, have excluded remote workers in Colorado from searches for job candidates since a state law requiring pay transparency in job listings went into effect. CyberScoop identified at least five cybersecurity firms or tech companies with active security-related job listings excluding Colorado workers from remote work. The companies represent a small subset of hundreds of employers navigating 2019’s Equal Pay For Equal Work Act, which went into effect on January 1 and requires employers to include compensation in job postings and keep job descriptions and wage records for two years after an employee leaves the company. Advocates for equal pay say that salary transparency is a powerful tool in closing the wage gap between men and women. Companies that implement pay transparency tend to have a lower wage gap at all job levels, the salary data site PayScale found in a 2020 study. A […]
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Welcome to the Ask Chloé column on Security Boulevard! Each week, Chloé provides advice to readers’ questions to help guide them as they navigate the technology industry. This week, Chloé explores hackers’ rights and the challenges women face in… Continue reading Ask Chloé: Hackers’ Rights and Women in Infosec
2018 was an extremely intense year in the field of cybersecurity. The Verizon Data Breach Report confirmed 2,216 breaches across 65 countries. From what the experts say, we can expect 2019 to be intense as well. According to a report by Cybersecu… Continue reading Women Needed in Cybersecurity
If you’ve been to any type of tech conference, you may have heard someone use the phrase “people, process and technology.” We’ve been told time and time again that if people solely rely on technology to protect their digital assets, the status quo of mega-breaches and wide-scale attacks will only continue. Yet while the security community rushes to give the world the latest and greatest tech tool to upend the onslaught of attacks, the status quo continues unabated on the people side: Cybersecurity is still overwhelmingly dominated by men. According to the 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study, women make up just 11 percent of the global cybersecurity workforce and earn less than their male counterparts at every level of the industry. In honor of Women’s History Month, we present our inaugural Top Women in Cybersecurity list, filled with individuals who are upending the status quo. This list contains […]
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Donna Dodson, Associate Director and Chief Cybersecurity Adviser, NIST Donna Dodson has multiple roles at the National Institute of Standards and Technology — the U.S. government’s premier measurement and testing laboratory. In addition to being the chief cybersecurity adviser to Acting NIST Director Kent Rochford, she is associate director of the Information Technology Laboratory — one of six labs at NIST — and director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. The center was established in 2012 by NIST along with the state of Maryland and Montgomery County. NIST provides the technical leadership and direction, Dodson said, the nonprofit federal contractor MITRE Corp. provides the personnel and 26 partner companies have signed up to provide technology and expertise. “We take cybersecurity best practices and solutions out of the laboratory, we engineer them, apply them in practice and bring them to businesses out in the community,” she explained. What is the greatest challenge […]
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Donna Dodson, Associate Director and Chief Cybersecurity Adviser, NIST Donna Dodson has multiple roles at the National Institute of Standards and Technology — the U.S. government’s premier measurement and testing laboratory. In addition to being the chief cybersecurity adviser to Acting NIST Director Kent Rochford, she is associate director of the Information Technology Laboratory — one of six labs at NIST — and director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. The center was established in 2012 by NIST along with the state of Maryland and Montgomery County. NIST provides the technical leadership and direction, Dodson said, the nonprofit federal contractor MITRE Corp. provides the personnel and 26 partner companies have signed up to provide technology and expertise. “We take cybersecurity best practices and solutions out of the laboratory, we engineer them, apply them in practice and bring them to businesses out in the community,” she explained. What is the greatest challenge […]
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Masha Sedova, Co-founder, Elevate Security The human factor is maybe the biggest unsolved problem in cybersecurity. How do you fix people so they can do security more effectively? How do you fix security so it fits people better? Masha Sedova ran the team whose job it was to change security behavior at Salesforce from 2012 until Dec. 2016. At the end of the year, she co-founded Elevate Security, where she tests user behavior and puts them on campaigns to practice new security behavior. Can you talk about where we are today versus where we were then on human behavior and awareness and cybersecurity? It seems like a different environment but what have you seen actually working on this? It’s been slower than I’d like it to be. Security professionals have been trying to solve the people problem for decades. We’re not very good at it. We’re really good at security, we’re not […]
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Mischel Kwon, President, MKA Cyber Over a three-decade career in security, Mischel Kwon held a succession of increasingly highly-ranked technical leadership positions in both the public and private sector before hanging her own shingle in 2010 and founding MKACyber, a security consulting firm that assesses and builds security operations centers and runs a managed SOC service. Prior to being made director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team in 2008, she was the deputy CISO for the Department of Justice, in which job she built and deployed the Justice Security Operations Center to monitor and defend the department’s network against cyber threats. Kwon also worked as the vice president for public sector security solutions at RSA and ran the George Washington University Cyber Defense Lab. MKACyber, a privately held 40-strong company, is “growing very rapidly,” Kwon says, “with both federal and commercial customers all over the country.” Last year, she also founded the […]
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Kimber Dowsett, Security Architect, 18F During a class graduation for Apple’s recently launched “Genius” training program in 2005, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs approached one of the few female graduates with a smile and handshake. Jobs expressed his delight at seeing a female in the typically male-heavy class. Today, 12 years later, and while Silicon Valley continues to struggle with diversity issues, that same graduate is one of the cybersecurity community’s best known engineers. Kimber Dowsett is a security architect for 18F, a specialized technology division within the General Services Administration, or GSA, that’s been called the U.S. government’s startup. 18F is a unique organization in that its employees often work directly with a myriad of different government agencies; meaning that they come in contact with numerous computer networks. Dowsett has worked over the past year to defend 18F from hackers and to make sure that if the organization were […]
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