We're Not Fooled By Your Diversity Theater

<p>All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series (<a href= "https://cisoseries.com/were-not-fooled-by-your-diversity-theater/">https://cisoseries.com/were-not-fooled-by-your-diversity-theater/</a>)</p> <p>We're casting for our diversity theater program on the latest episode of <em>CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast</em>.</p> <p>This episode is hosted by me, <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspark/">David Spark</a> (<a href="http://twitter.com/dspark">@dspark</a>), producer of CISO Series and founder of <a href= "http://sparkmediasolutions.com/">Spark Media Solutions</a> and <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikevj/">Mike Johnson</a>. Our guest this week is <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-conner-288b1b3/">Matt Conner</a>, CISO, <a href="https://www.nga.mil/Pages/Default.aspx">National Geospatial Intelligence Agency</a>.</p> <p>Thanks to this week's podcast sponsor, PlexTrac</p> <p><a href="https://plextrac.com"><img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/24425/PlexTracBanner.jpg" alt="PlexTrac" width="600" height="100" /></a></p> <p><em><a href="https://plextrac.com/">PlexTrac</a> is a revolutionary, yet simple, cybersecurity platform that centralizes all security assessments, penetration test reports, audit findings, and vulnerabilities into a single location. PlexTrac vastly improves the risk management lifecycle, allowing security professionals to generate better reports faster, aggregate and visualize important analytics, and collaborate on remediation in real-time.</em></p> <p><!-- wp:heading --></p> <h2>How CISOs are digesting the latest security news</h2> <p><!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p>If you thought tech firms were abysmal with diversity hiring, it appears venture capital firms are even worse. In a Washington Post article by Nitasha Tiku, <a href= "https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/10/racial-gap-vc-firms/"> just 1 percent of VC dollars went to black start-up founders in 2018</a>, and that same year and percentage