Considering that modern society depends on cybersecurity for nearly every aspect of daily life in the digital age—to work, shop, travel, communicate, form relationships, protect our health, keep ourselves safe from terrorist attacks, natural disasters and other calamities, etc—it is surprising that women, who represent 50 percent of the global workforce, comprise only 11 percent of global cybersecurity professionals. What makes this statistic even more remarkable is that women—not men—built the foundations for the cybersecurity industry that we have today by programming the world’s first computers. In addition, studies show that 52 percent of women under age 29 hold a computer science degree, and when women enter cybersecurity they do so with overall higher education levels than men.
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