Cyber Security is truly a great career choice for Women, I know this because:
- I am a woman
- I work in Cyber Security
Well that’s stating the obvious isn’t it…. I have worked in most areas of IT and focusing on Cyber Security for over eight years and loved every minute of it, so let me tell you a little about my journey to Cyber Security.
Whilst studying my Bachelor of Information Comms I landed a role in what could only be described as a golden opportunity to work is a small multifaceted and highly talented team made up of mostly former Australian Defence staff. I was given the opportunity to get my hands into everything literally; from building servers, managing databases, hand splicing fiber optic cables, building pin cables, cryptography, rekeying safe combinations, building fixed and portable networks, setting up routers, switches and installing networks and systems with security by design. Climbing under desks, in crawl spaces, getting electrocuted because a power board had no back and, of course, I grabbed it with two hands…. Even that didn’t deter me in the slightest. I thoroughly enjoyed working in Parliament House, it has an incredible energy. It seemed however that no matter how many times I’d walk through the basement I’d still get lost. I spent many years doing this work through a few Government Agencies including Finance, Defence and Federal Attorney General’s Department. Whilst at AGD a role came up in CERT Australia, the Federal Government’s Cyber Security Agency at that time. I relocated to their Brisbane office to work with a great team of professionals focusing on Systems of National Interest and Critical Infrastructure, after five years of a four hour a day commute to Brisbane I decided I needed to be closer to home. I was very fortunate to get to work with the most amazing teams in the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Information Technology Department as Manager of IT Systems. Within three years of being at USC, two of the most wonderful, innovative and entrepreneurial people Dr Scott Snyder Chief Operating Officer and Professor David Lacey were instrumental in creating USC’s inaugural Institute for Cyber Investigations and Forensics…Click here to read full article.
