A panel at the Cybersecurity festival discussed the benefits of attracting more diverse talent, and supporting that talent to maximise productivity and skills retention.
Are diverse cybersecurity teams at an advantage in threat detection and remediation? Holly Foxcroft is Head of Neurodiversity in Cyber Research at Stott and May Consulting. Holly is currently undertaking research with the University of Portsmouth on precisely this point. She provided an example of cybersecurity awareness advice as an area that would benefit from input from some neurodivergent individuals.
“One piece of cyber awareness advice you see a lot is telling you to look out for spelling mistakes, and that doesn’t really work for me as my dyslexia is strong,” she says.
“In our research we’re noticing more neurodivergence in cybercrime and that means we’re going to see a lot more in tech and cybersecurity.”
Holly acknowledged that neurodiversity could be a strength but that this wasn’t necessarily so and cautioned against perceiving neurodivergent individuals as superheroes.
Read the entire article here: https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4205353/widening-pipeline-tech-talent-business
