Women Underrepresented in Surging Cybersecurity Market

By Dan Stoller, Bloomberg BNA

Women are underrepresented in the burgeoning cybersecurity field and companies may be losing out by not having more diversity on their security teams, industry professionals tell Bloomberg BNA.

Michelle Cohen, data privacy member at Ifrah Law in Washington, said that despite an abundance of job openings “women represent only 10 percent of cybersecurity professionals and the industry may reportedly have a staff shortage of 1.5 million people by 2020.” The lack of candidates can be traced to “women being underrepresented in intelligence, the military and security,” she said.

The cybersecurity industry is fast growing and ...