Navigating the Career Path

Women make up roughly a quarter of the cybersecurity workforce right now. The ISC2 backed Global 50x50 Initiative wants that number at 50% by 2050, and it's not a vague aspiration, it's a coalition of industry, government, nonprofit, and education partners working from three named pillars: knowledge building, capacity building, and sustaining momentum. Why a 25 year horizon Fifty by fifty sounds slow until you look at where the barriers actually sit: awareness (do girls even

Picture this. You’re brand new to cybersecurity. You’re at your first meetup, maybe at a CyberjutsuCon or a BSides or just a happy hour where everyone in the room seems to already know each other. Someone you’ve been chatting with for ten minutes finally asks, “So… are you red or blue?” And you, looking like a deer in headlights (a phrase I have used to describe myself more times than I would like to admit), think, am I supposed to pick a side here? Welcome to one of the most