Why Enterprises Need Gender Diversity In Security Roles

Diverse teams provide an immediate and longlasting solution to the global shortage of security talent.

- Roberta Witty, VP Analyst, Gartner

For every 100 security and risk management (SRM) executives, only about a quarter of them are women. The good news is that as the benefits of diversity are more widely realised, that number will increase by nearly 15 percent by 2020.

“While this makes for pretty sober reading, the good news is that the general workforce pipeline has a more balanced male-to-female ratio, meaning that over time, it’s likely that there will be more female leaders in the discipline,” says Roberta Witty, VP Analyst, Gartner.

The Gartner Gender Diversity in Security and Risk Management Survey explored how gender diversity impacts the ability of an organisation to manage its security and risk management objectives.

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