Cybersecurity also isn’t ready for the conversation about how we as an entire industry trick young men into perceiving red team as a way to be legally allowed to be a high tech, vigilante thief and then hire them for crap salaries to write repetitive and futile vulnerability assessment reports.
Women and older career switchers are generally not even exposed to red team as an option of interest that they’d be good at using socialized skills, which is kinda crazy when the most ignored people in society who can pretty much walk in anywhere are older women. Instead we portray it like esports.
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