Autistic People Can Solve Our Cybersecurity Crisis
To this day there is a very dark stigma that people on the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are incapable of having the intellectual ability to join the workforce. In fact, the majority of people on the ASD are unemployed due to the fact that there is not enough funding to help train them to be succesful people to contribute to society. “Programs for adolescents and adults with ASD receive less than 1 percent of all autism-related funding in the US, public and private. (Most spending is on research into the causes of the syndrome and on programs for children.)” There is a huge opportunity to match potential employees to jobs especially in our need in cybersecurity. By matching these unemployed, perfectly capable people to jobs that are in need of them it is clearing the market. Many tech companies have started to create programs in order to start attacking this issue.
This is definitely something that we have covered in lecture. People that have ASD are considered to largely have characteristics that are highly needed in jobs such as cybersecurity. Characteristics such as analytical, attention to detail, and honest. We are matching people with desirable traits to jobs that highly lack these people. By using matching markets, we are reducing unemployment and overall making a more efficient society.