ITWF: Women and Cyber Security: Gendered Tasks and Inequitable Outcomes

CNS-0420448 Raghav Rao Institution：SUNY Buffalo标题：ITWF：女性与网络安全：性别任务和不公平结果这个ITWF项目调查女性进入、保留和提升网络安全信息技术职业的情况。该项目涉及对获得国防部奖学金的本科生和毕业生、持有专业认证的当前网络安全专业人员以及一群在美国公司担任首席信息安全官的女性的研究。目标是确定按性别区分任务的可能趋势，并确定可能的机构干预措施，以促进网络安全关键领域的性别平等。该项目的学术价值在于建立在更广泛的信息技术领域现有研究基础上的理论基础，以及为国家重要的网络安全领域带来新见解的潜力。对网络安全领域性别差异的关注在很大程度上是一个未被探索的领域。这个项目可以产生新的见解，清楚地说明与性别平等相关的网络安全趋势和做法与其他信息技术次级学科的不同之处。该项目的更广泛影响在于其结果的潜在影响，即为学院和大学的课程和项目设计提供信息，以促进女性更多地参与网络安全。多方面的传播计划应惠及许多不同的人群，从而为成果的潜在受益者提供广泛的受众。该项目包括与布法罗州立大学合作，试点针对初中和高中女孩的外联活动，从而扩大女性人才库，她们随后可能会积极追求将IT和网络安全结合在一起的职业。

CNS-0420448Raghav RaoInstitution: SUNY BuffaloTitle: ITWF: Women and Cyber Security: Gendered Tasks and Inequitable OutcomesThis ITWF project examines the entry, retention, and advancement of women in cyber security information technology careers. The project involves studies on undergraduates and graduates recipients of Department of Defense scholarships, current cyber security professions who hold professional certification, and a group of women who are chief information security officers in American companies. The goals are to determine possible trends of task differentiation by gender and to determine possible institutional interventions that can promote gender equity in the critical field of cyber security.The intellectual merit of this project lies in the theoretical foundations built on existing research in broader information technology fields and the potential to bring new insights to the nationally important field of cybersecurity. The focus on gender differences within the cyber security field is a largely unexplored area. This project could produce new insights that clearly illustrate the differences in the trends and practices in cyber security related to gender equity from those in other information technology sub disciplines.The broader impacts of the project lie with the potential of the results to inform curriculum and program design with colleges and universities to promote enhanced participation of women in cyber security. The multi-faceted dissemination plan should reach many different populations and thus provide a broad audience of potential beneficiaries of the results. The project includes partnership with Buffalo State College to pilot outreach activities targeted at girls in middle and high school, thus widening the pool of females who may then actively pursue careers that combine IT and cyber security.