Industry leaders say a gender gap in the cybersecurity sector could represent an unaddressed tactical disadvantage for government and businesses alike.
When Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono met at the State Department in August, it was taken as another sign that the two nations consider cybersecurity as important as land, air or sea defensive capabilities.
A tenant of the internet of things industry is that anything connected to the internet is connected to hackers. But when you’re talking about a trillion-dollar ballistic missile system, that possibility is unacceptable.