If you care about cyber security and you're willing to work hard, we need you. Yes, YOU. The cybersecurity challenge is huge and there is a great need for people with diverse backgrounds to help solve it. Your path can originate in different places. For me, I didn't start out intending to be a security engineer, but influences along my journey brought me to a role that I love and that taps into my natural interests and abilities.

I began my career as a web designer. When I was in college my favorite professor happened to be teaching a class in cryptography. He suggested I take it, so I did, and found it fascinating. That same professor was teaching another class called Ethical Hacking; I took that too, and then I was hooked.  Being a natural problem solver with a penchant for math, I found a lot of synergy with computer science. There's not much grey area