Women in InfoSec: Building Bonds & New Solutions

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By Lysa Myers
Dark Reading
6/9/2014

Learning, camaraderie, and fighting the good fight are just three reasons 
these women are trailblazing careers in InfoSec.

There have been a lot of articles lately, suggesting a variety of ways to 
get young women involved in tech. Some of these ideas sound like fantastic 
and creative ways to make the true appeal of a career in tech more broadly 
tempting. Some of them.... well, not so much. It got me thinking: What was 
it that actually drew women who have careers in InfoSec into this 
industry?

As a woman working in InfoSec for over a decade and a half, I’ve had the 
pleasure of becoming good friends with a number of other women in the 
field. It has occurred to me over the years how similar many of our 
stories are, both in terms of what attracted us to this industry, and of 
what we like and dislike about it now that we’re here.

For all of us, a career in security was not something we had planned; it 
was simply something we fell into and found it fit our skillset nicely. 
Each of us had an interest in computers long before joining this industry.

“For as long as I can remember my father preached that computers were the 
way of the future. I think I was writing programs and reporting defects in 
other people’s code long before I learned how to write in cursive,” one of 
my female colleagues told me. “By the time I was an adult, looking for 
flaws was second nature. Once I was given a chance to dabble in security I 
found I loved playing in that space as the ‘flaws’ were much more 
interesting.”

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