London, UK: Crossword Cybersecurity Plc has announced that, in addition to the Internet of Things security certification as announced on 25 November 2020, The IASME Consortium Limited (“IASME”), UK Government Cyber Essentials Partner, has selected Rizikon Assurance as the core platform to support a new Counter Fraud Fundamentals certification which has received government funding.
Study reveals massive opportunity for women to succeed in male dominated industry
A new study has revealed that women hold only 10 percent of board positions and 16 percent of management positions within the world’s leading cyber security companies.
The study was carried out by cybersecurity specialists, Eskenzi PR and Marketing, and looked at the websites of 138 companies from the Cybersecurity Ventures Hot 150 to understand the ratio between males and females in senior positions. It uncovered that out of 609 board positions, only 60 are taken up by females, while out of 1700 management positions only 271 are taken up by women. This highlights a major gap in the industry where companies could be missing out on the specialist skills women can bring to cybersecurity.
An event is being organised to raise hope for change to the landscape of stress in the UK, where suicide is the biggest killer of men under 50 and young people aged 20-34, even during a year of Coronavirus. And within the FM and security sectors, security guards are amongst the highest risk occupations susceptible to Covid deaths.
As the pandemic approaches the anniversary of the first lockdown, Magenta Security increases its investment in team mental health support.
“Security professionals are, like so many other key workers, on the front line, keeping people safe. They are at risk like others from COVID or indeed other illnesses and even physical attack. Yet they are also emotionally and psychologically at risk,” comments Abbey Petkar, managing director, Magenta Security Services. National and international press and other industry’s highlight the mental health challenges faced by so many people at the moment. However, we as an industry are doing very little to raise awareness and support our hard working, under-pressure workforce.”
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