A Survey of Cybersecurity Professionals’ Perceptions and Experiences of Safety and
summary
An online survey of 342 respondents with a mean of 7.5 years in security finds overall low psychological safety (mean 65.5 psychological safety score, bottom quartile of industry benchmarks), women are 1.2× more likely than men to report severe harassment (doxing, sexual advances, violence), and women report more unsupportive identity-based incidents while men more often report none. Recommendations target structured community norms, public sanctioning of harassment, and allyship/bystander interventions.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Cybersecurity workforce challenges
- 1:56Marginalized groups in cybersecurity
- 3:19Survey design and questions
- 5:27Participant demographics
- 6:30Psychological safety findings
- 7:35Gender disparities in experiences
- 9:19Improving cybersecurity culture
- 11:25Summary and call for change
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