Only 10% of the global cyber-security workforce are women

The cyber-security industry suffers from a lack of gender diversity with an estimated 10 percent of the global information security workforce being women.

A new report from CREST digs into why diversity is a growing issue of importance, what holds women back from entering the industry, how to make a difference, who to target and how to get the message out. Information was gathered from its 2016 Diversity Workshop from various attendees in the industry, government and academia.

Roughly a quarter (26 percent) of IT professionals worldwide are women and nine percent of engineering professionals in the UK are women.

In the UK, only 18 percent of undergraduate degrees for computer science are awarded to women as a result of low female applicants despite female computer science students being more successful than male students. For the full article click here 

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