The Bilingual Cybersecurity Professional Is Not a Diversity Hire
The Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute documented ransomware campaigns targeting Spanish speakers using natural, regionally appropriate Spanish generated with AI assistance — delivered through Google Drive links disguised as financial documents. The social engineering worked because the language read correctly. A monolingual analyst reviewing that email in a log sees foreign-language content and flags it by pattern or script. A bilingual analyst reads it and identifies the technique. That is not a soft skill. That is a detection capability. ...
