How Cybersecurity Became More Human
In the beginning, we were questioned for introducing non-technical perspectives into cyber threat analysis. Here’s how that changed — and why it matters.
“Where’s this thing going anyway?” I asked myself after a particularly frustrating day at work.
It was late 2005 and I had just spent the last few months of my relatively new career in the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community as an intelligence analyst focusing on Information Assurance and Computer Network Operations. No one called it cybersecurity then. In fact, no one really cared about anything if it wasn’t counterterrorism.
Having seen the smoke from the Pentagon on 9/11 from my college campus, I decided to join the national security workforce right after I graduated from college. My decision was not the typical one for a young, newly minted female graduate with a liberal arts degree. Most of my colleagues were military and mostly male. I spent my days with a small team analyzing the information warfare programs of nation states and other actors looking to threaten the DoD or US Government.
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