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# Fighting the Good Fight with Deidre Diamond
- URL: https://www.cybrsecmedia.com/fighting-the-good-fight-with-deidre-diamond/
- Published: 2026-07-22T12:07:43.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-28T20:10:20.000Z
- Description: How vague job descriptions, inefficient hiring processes, and poor matching systems contribute to long hiring cycles, workforce shortages, and burnout.
- Author: CYBR.SEC.Media
- Tags: podcast, CYBR.SEC.CAST, careers, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Hiring

In this episode of CYBR.SEC.CAST, hosts Michael and Sam speak with Deidre Diamond, founder and CEO of CyberSN, about the challenges facing today’s cybersecurity job market. Diamond explains how vague job descriptions, inefficient hiring processes, and poor matching systems contribute to long hiring cycles, workforce shortages, and burnout. She also discusses CyberSN’s cybersecurity job taxonomy, the importance of treating job descriptions as living workforce-planning tools, and the need for organizations to improve how they hire, develop, and retain cybersecurity professionals.

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