In March 2017, (ISC)2 published the results of its annual “Global Information Security Workforce Study,” a survey of 19,641 people working in the cybersecurity field across 170 different countries. Of the thousands of people surveyed, only 11 percent were women in cybersecurity.
That statistic, coupled with the report’s conclusion that by 2022, there would be 1.8 million more cybersecurity jobs than people to fill them, spawned a number of op-eds and articles about how crucial it would be to recruit more women to fill that gap.
In the following year, (ISC)2published the 2018 edition of the same survey, the results of which revealed some good news: In just one year, women had gone from 11 percent of the information security workforce to more than double that figure at 24 percent! (ISC)2 attributed this jump partially to its new approach to finding survey participants, which took a “more holistic look at who is truly doing the work of cybersecurity” and reached out to employees at “organizations of all sizes across public and private sectors,” rather than just focusing on “traditional cybersecurity roles and sectors.”
The discrepancy between the 2017 and 2018 results speaks to how hard it can be to pin down exactly how many women work in STEM and how many women in cybersecurity are in the workforce when the ..
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