e2e-assure, as a member of the cybersecurity community committed to the prevention of all forms of harassment within our industry, hereby pledges its support for a workplace and community free from harassment and fear through the Respect In Security pledge.
What is the Respect In Security Pledge?
Harassment involves any unwanted physical, verbal, or non-verbal conduct intended to violate a person’s dignity or create an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating, or offensive environment for them. Harassment can be persistent or an isolated incident, and it may be obvious or hidden and insidious. It may take place in person, by telephone or in writing, including emails, texts, or online communications such as social media. The definition of harassment applies equally to situations of direct communication as it does to situations of active exclusion of individuals, or solicitation of such communication or exclusion.
What is included?
This pledge applies in the workplace as well as in work-related settings outside the workplace or outside the regular business day. We pledge that:
- We will not tolerate, condone, or ignore any form of harassment no matter where it occurs, or the personnel involved.
- We will ensure that staff members are not asked to operate in unsafe organisational or social environments.
- We will empower employees, contractors and third parties to come forward with reports without fear of retaliation, and to immediately and respectfully respond without prejudice. We recognise that those reporting harassment are not in any way disloyal to the company or the community, and that everyone deserves to work in a positive environment.
- We will protect the anonymity of those reporting suspected violations to the greatest extent reasonably possible.
- We will regularly educate employees and contractors what constitutes harassment and why it’s never acceptable, while continually maintaining and actively reviewing our policy and reporting mechanisms.
- We will regularly discuss reporting protocol with our employees and ensure that we make a public version of this protocol publicly available for external reference and use.
In Summary
We are excited by this initiative and firmly believe that cybersecurity professionals should be able to do their jobs without fear of abuse or harassment to improve respect in security.
If you’d like to find out more about the Respect in Security initiative, please visit https://respectinsecurity.org/. For any questions on e2e’s commitment to this cause, please contact info@e2e-assure.com or contact us.