Jacky Fox
Cyber & IT Forensic lead Deloitte Ireland
Attracting & Retaining women in Cyber Security
Agenda
• Cyber and gender today
• My story
• How can we influence the future?
Cyber & gender today
What are the characteristics of a Cyber person?
• Typically but not always a STEM graduate
• STEAM is also of interest
• Communication skills are really important
• Super IT literate
• Smart - Smarter than the cyber criminals
• Dedicated to life long learning
• Open to working along side diverse talent
Are there any of these characteristics uniquely male?
Technical/Cyber career streams
• Typical career growth pattern
− Do you have the skills to do the job?
− Can you manage and motivate
others to do the job?
− Can you reach outside your group to
promote what the team does?
• Branch for Technical only career pattern
− Do you have the skills to do the job?
− Can you deepen or broaden that
knowledge to specialist level?
− Can you become a guru?
Are either of these paths more male/female?
