Millennials & The Cybersecurity Skills Shortage

Is the cybersecurity skill shortage actually a generation gap? It would seem so from the results of a recent global survey of 4000 young adults by Raytheon and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA). Among the findings:  Only half of the men in the survey said they knew what a cybersecurity job entails; for millennial women, awareness was even lower – just one-third of respondents.

Join us for the next episode of Dark Reading Radio where Dark Reading Executive Editor Kelly Jackson Higgins  will lead an in-depth discussion about what it will take for 18 to 34-year-olds to warm up to an exciting and rewarding career in information security – and what is holding them back.  Our guests will include authors of the Raytheon/NCSA report, along with millennials Kerstyn Clover, a staff consultant on the SecureState Attack and Defense Team and Ryan Sepe, information security analyst at Radian Group Inc.

Register now and join us Wednesday, November 18, 2015, New York/10:00 a.m. San Francisco 1:00 p.m.