Many hands make light work, so the adage goes. And while it directly flies in the face of other idioms like, "Too many cooks in the kitchen," it's well known that we need bodies to accomplish goals. It wasn't one person who launched a rocket directly into outer space, it wasn't one person who turned the punch cards of weaving looms into an M2 Macbook ... these accomplishments were envisioned and executed by teams of people.

So where are they in security? The Us Government has said we need to fill 700,000 open cybersecurity roles in the coming years. These are well paying jobs with plenty of opportunity for growth. Why are so many positions open? Well, as someone who just joined, let me tell you about my gigantic terrifying anxiety and presuppositions about security that kept me from joining. And how I eventually took a leap and did it.

Am I out there pentesting and hacking and donning a cloak to social engineer people's passwords? Naw, I'm the community Manager! Have I undertaken work to start learning that? Yes to Pentesting, no to the cloak. I can hack now!*

This talk aims to talk about what keeps people out and how we can get more folks into security, and thus make a safer internet and world for everyone. Attendees can expect to learn about ways we can help bring more people in to a career where they'll learn how to keep bad folks out and have some concrete ways we can dispell myths about security and bring the excitement we all already have to the wider world.

*I mean, script kiddie stuff, but I'm working on it!