Kaspersky Lab’s CyberStarts Boston

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Eleven percent isn’t nothing — you wouldn’t brush off an 11% risk of injury or cyberincident — but when it comes to representation in the workplace, being in the 11% can be daunting. And 11% is women’s representation in the world of cybersecurity.

Considering that cybersecurity faces an alarming shortage of talented workers, you might think the solution is simple: help get girls interested in tech. As it turns out, reality is a lot more complex. For starters, getting girls interested isn’t a problem. Complex problems appeal to us at Kaspersky Lab, though, and so we continued our exploration with a daylong conference called CyberStarts.

As our first keynote speaker, Eva Galperin, pointed out, being in the 11% means that in a room of 10 developers, she’s the only woman. In a smaller meeting, it’s a fair bet no women are there.

The downsides affect the women in question in some obvious ways, and they are also to the detriment of the industry; and the world it serves.

As in cybersecurity, identifying a problem is followed by poking at potential solutions to figure out what has and hasn’t worked in the past, what’s working now, and what else to try next.

Full reading: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/cyberstar...018/24256/