{"title":"Keynote: Why a Cyber Security Career for a Woman?","authors":"B. Thuraisingham","doi":"10.1145/3139531.3139532","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Cyber Security is one of the fastest growing fields in Computer Science with so many opportunities and tough problems to solve. Cyber Security is also a very lucrative field to be in. However, the percentage of women and disadvantaged minorities in cyber security is dismal. This paper motivates mainly women as to why they should pursue a career in Cyber Security.","PeriodicalId":295031,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Women in Cyber Security","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Women in Cyber Security","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3139531.3139532","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Cyber Security is one of the fastest growing fields in Computer Science with so many opportunities and tough problems to solve. Cyber Security is also a very lucrative field to be in. However, the percentage of women and disadvantaged minorities in cyber security is dismal. This paper motivates mainly women as to why they should pursue a career in Cyber Security.