Women make up just 24% of the cyber workforce. CISA wants to fix that.
CBSN
As the race to recruit female talent in STEM continues moving ahead with steady progress, stunning statistics still wrack the cybersecurity sector: Women working in cybersecurity currently account for less than one quarter of the overall workforce.
Megan Rapinoe. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Shirley Chisholm. Donning jeans and a Ukrainian flag t-shirt, the director of the nation's lead cybersecurity agency ticked through PowerPoint slides of women "who took a sledgehammer to the glass ceiling."
"I need your help," said Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, on Friday to an audience of 1,700 female cybersecurity professionals assembled for a three-day technical conference in Cleveland. "We need to get to 50% of cybersecurity by the year 2030. Think we can do it?" Someone whistled. ACDC pulsed through the speakers. "Come on!" Easterly rallied.
