Tech conferences like RSA still have a diversity problem

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They may be trying, but that doesn’t mean it’s enough. The RSA Conference still has a diversity problem. 

The lack of gender diversity in the tech industry as a whole has been highly criticized and making headlines for some time, ahem CES. And yet the 40,000-plus person yearly cybersecurity event taking place this week in San Francisco has been particularly adept at tripping over its own feet when it comes to including women. This, perhaps, was one factor contributing to the front and center acknowledgement Wednesday morning by Cisco Chief Security and Trust Officer John Stewart that the industry needs to do better.  Read more…

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