{"id":50872,"date":"2023-03-06T03:01:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/where-are-the-women-in-cyber-security-on-the-dark-side-study-suggests\/"},"modified":"2023-03-06T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T03:01:08","slug":"where-are-the-women-in-cyber-security-on-the-dark-side-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/where-are-the-women-in-cyber-security-on-the-dark-side-study-suggests\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are the women in cyber security? On the dark side, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Brief<\/span> If you can’t join them, then you may as well try to beat them \u2013 at least if you’re a talented security engineer looking for a job and you happen to be a woman. <\/p>\n

As we’ve noted before, the infosec world moves at a glacial pace toward gender equity<\/a>. It appears that’s not the case in the cyber criminal underground, according to Trend Micro, which recently published a study in which it claims at least 30 percent \u2013 if not more \u2013 of cyber criminal forum users are women.<\/p>\n

For its study, Trend Micro looked at five English-language cyber crime forums: Sinister, Cracked, Breached, Hackforums and (now defunct) Raidforum. And it inspected five Russian-language sites: XSS, Exploit, Vavilon, BHF and WWH-Club. <\/p>\n