Last month, Devon Bryan and Larry Whiteside hosted the first-ever National Conference of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals at the Historic Washington Plaza Hotel. The shortage of minorities within the cyber community drives their passion to create more opportunities for women and majority minority groups to fill cyber positions. Whiteside said as an African American, his focus is predominantly on how he can make the security industry attractive and alluring for African Americans. The way we message our daughters, the way we push and drive them has historically been different. We need to evangelize how we are talking to our young, he said.”]