Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) 2019 Recap

Summary: The Grace Hopper Celebration 2019 in Orlando drew over 25,000 attendees from 83+ countries across four days, with a career fair of more than 450 vendors and at least 15 cybersecurity talks on a conference not dedicated to security. The author notes that women hold only 25% of computing jobs, that companies at the fair responded strongly to cybersecurity, and that notable security recruiters included MITRE, Red Balloon, and Crowdstrike, only one of which conducted interviews on-site.
Key Takeaway: With women holding just 25% of computing jobs and security vendors largely absent as sponsors from a 25,000-person recruiting event, the pipeline your security hiring depends on is being contested by companies that showed up and interviewed on-site while most security firms did not.

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