Virtual Kyle Kennedy - Stories, not resumes: Breaking educational and other barriers in cybersecurity

Today's episode is a reading of an amazing written by Kyle Kennedy, president of brainbabe.org. The reading is performed by Allison, an IBM Watson personality. I also go through some recent resources discovered to help you on your journey to a Career in Infosec. BIO: Kyle F. Kennedy is a social cybersecurity expert and president of brainbabe.org. His organization provides foundational soft-skills training for a small fee (supported by corporation donations) and plans to launch soft-skill Masterclasses in 2019. They helped organize an event called Day of Shecurity for women of diverse backgrounds to have one day of learning: tech/ hard skills, soft skills. They had opportunities for mentorship and guidance. Day of Shecurity was FREE to attendees! Links: Article: Stories, not resumes: Breaking educational and other barriers in cybersecurity Google Image Search for "cybersecurity" Associate of (ISC)² Adrian Kaylor's talk "Sales Engineering and getting into infosec" https://www.joesecurity.org/ Flaws2 City College of SF Cybersecurity Program CCSF Information Security (Cybersecurity) Analyst Apprenticeship Sam Bowne's Classes Article in IBM Watson's Expressive SSML used on the show Intro/Outro Music: Cascadia by Trash80 Full Text of Article: When you search for images under the key word “cybersecurity,” a familiar shot always turns up: a guy wearing a hoodie, operating in a dark room, fingers on a keyboard. I’d like to replace that image with…anything. To be a cybersecurity professional, you can be anything. And anyone. We’ve heard the statistics. There is currently a human capital crisis, with 1.5 million cybersecurity jobs available and no takers. The number is projected to balloon to 3.2 million by 2021. But who exactly are these cybersecurity professionals we are looking for? For so long, we have had our own definition of who can fit that talent. A good cybersecurity professional has to have a computer science degree. They must have solid professional background. They have to be male. This pattern of defining success has led us to the shortage we are experiencing today. It’s kind of like insanity, really: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. What really makes up a good professional? Every human being brings a different experience. You need critical thinking and creative thinking, both. A variety of educational, ethnic, geographical, backgrounds. For example, cybersecurity is not the obvious career path for someone with a biology degree; however, a biology major might help throw a new perspective on cybersecurity given that advancements of technology will eventually interface with the human body organically creating a scary threat landscape. Often too we talk about cybersecurity in the context of oil and gas, or transport, or finance. Cybersecurity today and going forward, is a...