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5 min readLynn Dohm, executive director of Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS), came to the role after years working on NSF-funded cybersecurity workforce grants. She attended her first WiCyS conference in 2018 and says her career “advanced significantly” after forming that community. The following year, founder Dr. Ambareen Siraj asked Dohm if she would consider leading the organization. “When someone believes in you before you even really realize how you could believe in yourself,” Dohm says, “you realize what an incredible amount of opportunity that lies ahead.”
The gap between diversity and inclusion
WiCyS is a nonprofit focused on recruiting, retaining, and advancing women in cybersecurity — but Dohm is careful to note it is not a women-only organization. “We’re a community of men, women, non-binary, and gender allies and advocates that are all concerned about the workforce shortage,” she says. The group’s mission is to create an ecosystem that supports more accessibility and opportunity.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (03:26) **WiCyS Mission & the State of Inclusion** - Lynn Dohm introduces Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) and shares key data from their benchmark report on inclusion.
- 2 (08:58) **The Workforce Shortage vs. Unfilled Jobs** - The conversation addresses the paradox of many open cybersecurity roles alongside difficulty breaking into the field.
- 3 (10:48) **Measuring Inclusion: Beyond Diversity Metrics** - Lynn explains why inclusion is harder to measure than diversity and how WiCyS tackled it.
- 4 (13:00) **The 6-10 Year Career Wall** - A deep dive into the specific career stage where women hit a barrier to advancement.
- 5 (14:50) **The Role of Visibility & Mentorship** - How the lack of visible female leaders perpetuates the problem and how mentorship can break the cycle.
- 6 (15:58) **The "Community Effect" on Inclusion** - A surprising finding about WiCyS strategic partners and their significantly lower exclusion rates.
- 7 (17:49) **Egregious Exclusion Stories (2023)** - Real-world examples of subtle and overt exclusion that still occur.
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Lynn Dohm, head of Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) and one of the top women in cyber security, joins us.
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